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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Navy chooses AN/SRQ-4 ship-to-helicopter datalink radios from L3 for situational awareness

MH-60RU.S. Navy helicopter avionics experts needed a digital data link to enable helicopters to share sensor information in real time with Navy and Coast Guard surface ships. They found their solution from L3 Communications-West in Salt Lake City.

Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., announced a $6.7 million contract modification Tuesday to L3 to provide four Common Data Link Hawklink AN/SRQ-4 radio terminal sets for the Navy and one for the U.S. Coast Guard.

The AN/SRQ-4 is the shipboard element of a situational awareness system that links the MH-60R helicopter with surface warships in the area. It provides command and control (C2), sensor data transfer, data link operation, and built-in-test.

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  1. MHalblaub28/6/13 10:47

    In case something like IDAS hits an ASW helicopter it might be interesting to know for the rest of the fleet what the helicopter had seen right before the incident.

    IDAS: http://www.diehl.com/fileadmin/diehl-defence/user_upload/flyer/IDAS_07_2008.pdf

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