Personnel locator system helps rescue downed pilots.Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (ä`b  thä`bē, zä–, dä–), Arab. Abu Zabi, sheikhdom (1995 pop. 928,360), c. , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Special operations Operations conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to achieve military, diplomatic, informational, and/or economic objectives employing military capabilities for which there is no broad conventional force requirement. pilots are
receiving an upgraded personnel locator system that relies on voice and
text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. to rescue downed pilots and aircrews.
The system is Cubic Defense's V12, which is being installed on AS 330 Puma helicopters. The UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. ordered 28 systems to go aboard these helicopters. The Emirates also have eight CH-47 Chinooks poised to receive the personnel locator system, said Craig Campbell Craig Campbell is a Canadian stand-up comedian, who now lives in Devon, England. He was the host of Ed's Late Night and From Wimps to Warriors. He was also part of a comedy trio called The Dinks, with Tony Law and Dan Antopolski. , Cubic's director for avionics advanced developments. Downed pilots use survival radios to communicate with the locator system to enable combat search-and-rescue crews to quickly find and extract them. "We provide a secure way of interrogating not only for survivors but for all kinds of assets," he said. "It provides a waypoint way·point n. A point between major points on a route, as along a track. to enable situational awareness of the mission area and it can be used as a system to locate ground troops, surface ships, vehicles and any types of aircraft." Cubic built different transponders that can be installed in aircraft and vehicles or can be carried by troops, he explained. In the United States, for example, the locator system is a key element of command and control where intelligence satellites can fuse with it with real-time data, he said. "The UAE pushes the technology even further than the United States," he said. "It is used under the same concept as Blue Force Tracking," a satellite-based situational awareness tool, that the U.S. military successfully employed in Iraq. The system lends itself well to a defined small mission area, said Campbell. "For special operations that is a very good thing because they do not necessarily want to use all the big army or air force equipment," he said. Commandos are looking at a 50-mile terminal area. "They are not interested in theater operations, They are interested in particular objectives with a particular target," he said. The personnel locator system, in production since 1989, has been used in the U.S as well as by NATO forces, said Campbell. Cubic's competition on the world market is the Israeli company, Tadiran, and Rockwell Collins, France. |
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