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Friday, November 27, 2009

France and the United States successfully demonstrate the interoperability of Thales's Mode 5 IFF

TSB 2512 IFF Combined Interrogator Transponder (CIT) Thales’s IFF interrogator and transponder have successfully completed the Mode 5 comprehensive interoperability tests in the US Naval Air Systems Command (US NAVAIR) laboratories.

Under the first New Generation Mode S and Mode 5 IFF* contract awarded to Thales for the supply of more than 160 sets of IFF equipment, the French defence procurement Agency (DGA) and the United States Defence Department organised tests in the United States Navy command's laboratories - US NAVAIR - located at Patuxent River, Maryland.

The tests consisted in making the Thales Mode 5 IFF systems communicate with their American equivalents in order to validate the interoperability of the developments of this new NATO secure mode.

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