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Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies
chrb writes "A recent article at Bloomberg discusses Western companies supplying monitoring equipment to Iran. There are few regulations restricting the sale of intelligence monitoring systems to the Iranian government, and large corporations like Ericsson and Nokia have supplied the equipment used to identify dissidents and suppress anti-government protests. '[One such system from Creativity Software] can record a person’s location every 15 seconds — eight times more frequently than a similar system the company sold in Yemen, according to company documents. A tool called "geofences" triggers an alarm when two targets come in close proximity to each other. The system also stores the data and can generate reports of a person's movements. A former Creativity Software manager said the Iran system was far more sophisticated than any other systems the company had sold in the Middle East.'"
Professional armies that use AK rifles - and specifically, Soviet army, which introduced it - have always trained soldiers to fire single shots or short bursts.
Recalling perhaps hazy memories of my old US army ROTC basic camps, I seem to remember that the existing doctrine for infantry squads was that the M16 was to be fired in single shot mode by everyone except the designated automatic rifleman. He got to use full auto but was supposed to limit to 3 round bursts. This was specifically because of the recoil causing aiming problems.
The only time we were all allowed to use full auto was when we were firing off unexpended blanks after an exercise. Of course, the smart folks fired only during the exercise enough to get credit for being there and then threw all the unexpended rounds into the bushes (or gave them to the morons who wanted to fire them off.) They knew that it was easier to clean a weapon that had fired no rounds.