It was during the German exercise Timber Express that Airbus Defense & Space experienced virtual communication between a Typhoon of the Luftwaffe and a Remote Carrier, the light combat drone which will constitute a key component of the FCAS program of new generation combat aircraft carried out in cooperation by Germany, France and Spain.
Not only was it demonstrated that the connection could be integrated into a flow composed of multiple data communications, but that it could be integrated into all devices with digital communication, without modification. In addition, the communication, which uses the CANDL protocol, can be integrated into the CESMO principle defined by NATO in order to standardize multi-domain cooperation in the alliance, and be distributed to all connected operators. This experiment tends to support the hypothesis of an early arrival of Remote Carriers in order to extend the capabilities of Typhoon German and Spanish as well as Rafale French, so as to compensate for the deficiencies of these two devices in the field of suppression of defenses and stealth.
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