Israelis Real Time Battlefield Video

This is some pretty neat stuff. It gives troops on the ground the ability to target enemy positions even when they don't have line of sight. While the Israelis are working toward these capabilities, the US is using them now and are expanding avalibility to lower level units.
FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM:
Israelis Real Time Battlefield Video
January 12, 2008: Israel is developing their own version of the battlefield shared picture system, similar to the American ones coming into use. The basic idea is communications and map software that allows a ground commander to click onto a map location (using his laptop, PDA or whatever) and have that picture instantly available to pilots overhead. GPS could also be used to enable a pilot to quickly find exactly where troops below are. The U.S. has been working on such systems for over a decade. Because of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been money, and willingness, to press forward with this. The main difficulty has been getting all the services to develop and buy communications gear that can speak the same language and automatically pass data back and forth. Easy in theory, but, until recently, difficult in practice.

This kind of real-time, "common picture", capability makes air power much more effective, and reduces instances of friendly fire. U.S. Special Forces troops and infantry unit commanders recently got a handheld device that will show them real-time video taken by UAVs or aircraft overhead. The handheld (about the size of a PDA, or a 1990s era cell phone), is part of the ROVER (Remote Operations Video Enhanced Receiver) series, will arrive later this year. This ROVER devices use a satellite data link to get the video from overhead UAVs or aircraft. The original ROVER system, as well as the current one, was developed and sent to the troops in record time. So don't let anyone tell you this sort of thing can't happen.
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