Platapus
08-24-17, 06:48 PM
Northrop Grumman Pitches Global Hawk UAV For Communications Between F-35s, F-22s.
Defense News (http://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2017082401aiaa&r=2974473-6764&l=006-7cc&t=c) (8/23) reports that “Northrop Grumman has a pitch to solve communications problems between the F-35 and F-22” by using a Global Hawk UAV equipped with a radio translating between the two fighter jets. Currently, the F-35 and F-22 use different secure data links to communicate, which are not able to interact. Northrop Grumman head of Global Hawk Business Development Mike Lyons said, “We’ve got a solution that we’ve identified and made a pitch to the Air Force. We’re just waiting for the requirements to basically say: ‘Go do [that].’”
So the radios of the F-35 and the F-22 can't talk to each other. There is evidently no way to put an F-22 Radio on an F-35 or an F-35 radio on an F-22 so the bestest solution is to fly a Global Hawk with a radio relay so the two aircraft can communicate.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://s15-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimage s%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcSpklcEDuJt4E7mEP5SQcz6yNGKK-PDaMw9RZmbDNlb71dsy79u&sp=d882eb9662f271c529b35e7eafbbe21d&anticache=331447
Anyone remember the ATT phone card incident during Grenada in 1987? That was 30 years ago and we still have not learned our lesson. :o
BTW the F-35 and F-22 are built by the same company. :o:o
Defense News (http://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2017082401aiaa&r=2974473-6764&l=006-7cc&t=c) (8/23) reports that “Northrop Grumman has a pitch to solve communications problems between the F-35 and F-22” by using a Global Hawk UAV equipped with a radio translating between the two fighter jets. Currently, the F-35 and F-22 use different secure data links to communicate, which are not able to interact. Northrop Grumman head of Global Hawk Business Development Mike Lyons said, “We’ve got a solution that we’ve identified and made a pitch to the Air Force. We’re just waiting for the requirements to basically say: ‘Go do [that].’”
So the radios of the F-35 and the F-22 can't talk to each other. There is evidently no way to put an F-22 Radio on an F-35 or an F-35 radio on an F-22 so the bestest solution is to fly a Global Hawk with a radio relay so the two aircraft can communicate.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://s15-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimage s%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcSpklcEDuJt4E7mEP5SQcz6yNGKK-PDaMw9RZmbDNlb71dsy79u&sp=d882eb9662f271c529b35e7eafbbe21d&anticache=331447
Anyone remember the ATT phone card incident during Grenada in 1987? That was 30 years ago and we still have not learned our lesson. :o
BTW the F-35 and F-22 are built by the same company. :o:o