Dornier Protects Nato Awacs.

Eads Dornier Dornier may refer to

Claudius Dornier, original founder of the airplane manufacturer
Dornier Flugzeugwerke
Lindauer DORNIER GmbH
Fairchild-Dornier, one of names of Fairchild company
Dornier Medtech http://www.

will be supplying four identification and collision warning systems to the Nato Awacs fleet as well as Nato's trainer cargo aircraft A cargo aircraft is an airplane designed and used for the carriage of goods, rather than passengers. This role demands a number of features that makes a cargo aircraft instantly identifiable; a "fat" looking fuselage, a high-wing to allow the cargo area to sit near the ground, a . The new systems are composed of Eads' new-generation IFF 1. (file format) IFF - Interchange File Format.
2. IFF - Identify friend or foe (radar).
3. (mathematics, logic) iff - if and only if, i.e. necessary and sufficient. transponder A receiver/transmitter on a communications satellite. It receives a microwave signal from earth (uplink), amplifies it and retransmits it back to earth at a different frequency (downlink). A satellite has several transponders. and Rockwell Collin's Acas collision warning computer. The IFF transponder is a product of the joint development between Eads and Thales and is expected to be delivered to both the German and French armed forces. A future military operating mode extension, mode 5, will allow the coded identification of military aircraft with increased information contents and an improvement in interference and interception safety. Installation and tests will begin in the summer 2001 and be completed by years' end.

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