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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

EADS to supply data-link for German Army reconnaissance drone 'KZO'

After the official handing over of the first series-system of the Rheinmetall reconnaissance drone 'KZO' ("Kleinfluggerät Zielortung") to the German Army, EADS Defence Electronics has now started the series production of the 'KZO' data-link system. The data-link system guarantees a world-wide unrivalled jamming resistance in the data-transfer between the drone and the ground station.

"Our data-link contains world-wide unrivalled capabilities which can be used on the most differing aerial devices. This is the most modern technology for the future topic unmanned air vehicles" stated Bernhard Gerwert, CEO of EADS Defence Electronics.

The data link system consists of an Air Data Terminal (ADT) in the drone and a Ground Data Terminal (GDT) on the ground. In doing this, the extremely small and compact ADT was specified using special miniaturisation techniques especially for unmanned aerial vehicles. It permits interference-free real-time data-transfer of large quantities of data over more than 120 km.

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