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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

F-22 and F-35 Suffer From Network Gaps

A strange thing happened to the fighter aircraft in the past decade: It became an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platform.

Sensors are at the front of this development. Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars deliver sub-meter resolution.

Much-improved electronic combat subsystems using digital radio-frequency (RF) technology can identify and locate emitters in ways that a few years ago were confined to large, special-purpose, electronic-surveillance measures systems.

Targeting pods now have several times the effective range and resolution of earlier-generation pods, and geo-locate targets with increased accuracy.

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