Australia used its first Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules fitted with a Link 16 tactical data link (TDL) during air-land integration missions at Exercise Pitch Black 2016.
The Engility Corporation Joint Range Extension (JRE) TDL two-phase system, with both line-of-sight and beyond line-of-sight capability, will eventually be fitted to all 12 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-130Js.
Link 16 connectivity is the latest upgrade to Australian C-130Js, which also includes improvements to communications, self-defence and payload delivery systems.
The system is unique in that there are five display terminals: one each for the pilots, two for loadmasters in the main
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Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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