Modern integrated systems allow one platform to fire using information collected by another. The same operating principle appears in older reconnaissance and gunfire-spotting practice. What changed is the amount of data, the speed of transfer, and the technical means of moving it. Stealth aircraft likewise extend the interwar ambition for a shadowing aircraft that could remain near an enemy without being detected. The continuity helps viewers distinguish a genuinely new capability from an older mission performed with better tools.
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Integrated sensors are an old naval operating concept
Digital networks transformed the volume and speed of data sharing, but not the basic practice of one platform finding a target for another weapon.