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Wait until military people put the receiver on their chest.

Then all the military dramas will flip from "sniper acquired target" to "communication with friendlies reestablished"



Sounds like a nice way to do IFF. Optical transponder. Only responds on a valid challenge received.


> Only responds on a valid challenge received.

Perhaps I misunderstand but that sounds like a scary failure mode.




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