Article: Smart minefield sought for anti-armor defense: network of weapons, sensors could help tactical commanders secure battlefield.

The Army is soliciting bids from contractors for a high-tech grid of weapons, sensors and command stations that would enable soldiers to lay clusters of anti-tank munitions in the forward areas of the battlefield, leave them unattended and control them remotely from the rear.

This is the basic idea behind a program called Raptor, an "intelligent" combat outpost consisting of a suite of munitions, sensors, a communication system and a control station. The munition for Raptor would be an upgraded version of the Hornet, also known as the wide-area munition. Hornet is a smart weapon that detects, classifies, tracks and engages ground armored vehicles.

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