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Friday, April 04, 2014

Northrop Grumman Flies First Production Smart Node Pod

Smartnode Pod on Firebird UAVNorthrop Grumman Corporation has completed a series of flight tests demonstrating the first production Smart Node Pod for the U.S. Air Force.

Smart Node Pod is an aircraft-mounted airborne communications system that allows real-time information to be exchanged among many disparate military and commercial radios and different datalinks, extends the network to the forward edge of the battlefield and relays full-motion video.

Northrop Grumman conducted five flights to certify performance characteristics in February in Virginia Beach, Va. During the flights, the Smart Node Pod demonstrated the ability to transmit full-motion video, imagery, voice and digital messages between warfighters both in the air and on the ground via various waveforms and datalinks and its interoperability with the proprietary and open source forward tactical handheld devices.

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1 comment:

  1. Gregg Weber4/4/14 10:42

    It might be interesting to know where they were 1st sent off to. Where they considered was the biggest target that had that threat to it. I just realized that both sentences didn't need a question mark as written.

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