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Friday, November 11, 2011

MEADS Demonstrates Advanced Plug-and-Fight Capabilities in Integration Test


The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) system elements have successfully performed a simulated engagement against real-world air and representative missile threats demonstrating MEADS' plug-and-fight capabilities.

In the simulated test, the MEADS battle manager demonstrated a revolutionary network-centric open architecture that allows any combination of sensors and launchers to be organized into single or multiple air and missile defense battle elements.

Through its plug-and-fight capability, the sensors, shooters and Tactical Operations Centers (TOC) simply act as nodes on the network. The MEADS battle manager lets a commander dynamically add or subtract these elements as the situation dictates without shutting the system down.

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