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Boeing highlights UAV capabilities in tactical network

23rd March 2009 - 19:49 GMT | by Scott Gourley in California

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Boeing representatives point to last week's demonstrations in Australia as a milestone in demonstrating "for the first time the ability to deliver streaming video over a mobile, ad hoc tactical network from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to a Chinook helicopter and ground troops."

The network-centric demonstration took place March 16-18 at the Boeing Defence Australia Systems Analysis Laboratory in Brisbane, Australia, where personnel from Australia's Army, Navy and Air Force viewed the new network's capabilities on actual "flight representative" hardware.

According to Tom DuBois, Boeing Rotorcraft Systems architect and Technical Fellow for Avionics and Software, the demonstrations grew out

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