Information is the most powerful tool available to the modern warfighter.
Never in history has so much information been available from so many sources. The challenge is to efficiently access, assimilate, and use that information. The sheer volume of data in many cases would prohibit any but the crudest attempts to manually determine such routes. Other systems that enforce these constraints using heuristic approaches can produce extremely poor routes or even fail to find a feasible route when one exists. Areas cut out from each cone reveal the effects of terrain on the detection region of the radar.