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Thursday, January 09, 2014

Optical data link successfully demonstrated between fighter plane and ground station

Tornado combat aircraftWith a newly developed optical data link, Cassidian enables the real-time transmission of large amounts of data, such as reconnaissance videos, from a fast flying jet to the ground.

Thanks to a one hundred times increase in transmission speed compared to conventional systems, in military or in civil operations, e.g. in disaster zones, more detailed situational information can be used more quickly and comprehensively than ever before.

Test flights were carried out at the end of November near Cassidian's Military Air Systems Center at Manching, Germany.

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