US Joint Forces Command has emailed me a list of initiatives for next month's Empire Challenge exercise in China Lake. Empire Challenge is a proving ground for the latest US and allied spying (aka, ISR or recce) systems, with China Lake standing in for Afghanistan. Here are a few highlights of myterious code names from the list. Unfortunately, all they sent me were the code names. No descriptions. Can anybody help:
- Crosswave
- Cyberhawk
- FATCAT
- Liquid Fire
- PLUCKYROMP
- TWENTYGLOW
- Green Devil

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