‘Unit X’ Review: Taking Tech Into Battle

When Raj Shah was an F-16 pilot in 2006 flying missions along the Iraq-Iran border, he discovered that the multimillion-dollar fighter’s navigation system was so out of date that it couldn’t tell him which side of the border he was flying over. He decided to load his hand-held, $300 Compaq iPAQ with civilian GPS software and digital maps. It worked perfectly.