Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 find out if this tank required a tactical capabilities reassessment. In layman's terms, could this new tank, with its improved armor, defeat a broader array of friendly weaponry? Within 2 days, the TECHINT collection team soldiers, analysts at the JCMEC, and national S&TI agencies in the United States were able to report their findings to the theater commander and his staff. DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM produced the largest amount of CEM in the shortest amount of time since World War II.
As a result of lessons learned from prior deployments, TECHINT provided unprecedented timely and accurate information to the warfighter and the national S&TI community. SOMALIA (OPERATION RESTORE HOPE) : On 4 December 1992, the FMIB alerted a TECHINT liaison element (LNE) for deployment in support of the US Marine Corps (USMC) II Expeditionary Force, the core headquarters for Joint Task Force (JTF) Somalia. The TECHINT LNE deployed to Somalia on 16 December and established operations at the US Embassy compound in southwest Mogadishu on 18 December. The TECHINT LNE made several significant contributions to the operations and intelligence efforts in Somalia.
On 21 December, the LNE accompanied a delegation from the JTF Somalia headquarters on a tour of compounds controlled by rival warlords in Mogadishu. During the 5 to 10 minutes the LNE was inside of each of the five compounds, the TECHINT LNE personnel compiled lists of the foreign and US weapons, equipment, and ordnance controlled by the warlords. This order of battle (OB) intelligence was key in planning the eventual US forces attack against one of those compounds. After determining there was no theater-wide plan for the collection and processing of CEM, the TECHINT LNE established the Centralized Weapons Collection Center (CWCC).
In conjunction with explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) personnel, the CWCC processed, screened for intelligence value, and disposed of thousands of captured weapons and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition. On 6 January, several SA-7 man-portable SAMs were captured in the Mogadishu area. In conjunction with EOD personnel, and with input from the US Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC), the TECHINT LNE reported that the missiles were functional. This intelligence prompted a change in the air defense artillery (ADA) threat status and flight operations in Somalia. On 14 January, several French MILAN antitank missiles were captured in 1-7