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German Luftwaffe Leads NATO Exercise In North Carolina

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August 2, 2013

NATO Exercise Tests Cassidian’s IFF Systems

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Cassidian’s airborne idenfitification-friend-or-foe (IFF) systems were put to the test during the recent Bold Quest ’13 exercise, held in North Carolina to test U.S. and NATO allied nations’ combat identification systems during simulated missions.

Equipment from Cassidian’s entire IFF “action chain” was deployed for the German forces during the exercise, with MSSR200001 interrogators on ground stations and LTR400 transponders on a German Luftwaffe C160 mission aircraft.

The systems performed as desired, and displayed interoperability with employed allied IFF Mode 4 and Mode 5 equipment. As a result of the exercises, the military units were able to demonstrate the capabilities of the next-generation IFF Mode 5, which is scheduled to be introduced for NATO forces next year.

“Reliably distinguishing hostile from friendly aircraft is a question of life or death in multinational operations,” said Elmar Compans, head of the sensors and electronic warfare unit at Cassidian.

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  1. Kathleen
    August 3, 2013 at 5:46 pm
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    Luftwaffe History and Handiwork: Friend or Foe

    [While we are asking the question friend or foe, let’s think this through. Likely the Serbian community in North Carolina will pause seeing the Luftwaffe flyovers. We don’t want Luftwaffe in North Carolina any more than we want Krupp in the kitchen or Mitsubishi in the garage. K]

    Source: Wikipedia
    The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the German Wehrmacht during World War II. After the German Empire’s World War I-era army air force, the Luftstreitkräfte, and the Kaiserliche Marine naval air units had been disbanded by May 1920 under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the Luftwaffe was reformed on February 26, 1935 and grew to become one of the strongest, most doctrinally advanced, and most battle-experienced air forces in the world when World War II started in Europe in September 1939. After the defeat of the Third Reich, the Luftwaffe was disbanded in 1946.

    July 1940 – autumn 1940
    The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, literally “Air battle for England”). The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. One of those attacks was Adlerangriff (“Eagle Attack”). September and later, the Germans moved on to the British towns and cities. Hermann Göring was confident that air victory was possible. He was convinced by the ideas of Giulio Douhet that “The bomber will always get through” and if attacks on military targets failed, bombing civilians could force the British government to surrender.

    August 26, 1940
    The first bombing of neutral Ireland during World War II took place on 26 August 1940, when the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) dropped bombs at Campile, County Wexford.

    1941
    Operation Punishment was the code name for the German bombing of Belgrade during the invasion of Yugoslavia. The Luftwaffe bombed the city on April 6 (Palm Sunday).

    Throughout the war [WWII] civilians or prisoners were used as human guinea pigs in testing Luftwaffe equipment… illegal tests classified as war crimes.

    The Luftwaffe eagle
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Luftwaffe_eagle.svg

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    • Kathleen
      August 9, 2013 at 5:36 pm
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      Correction: Krups and Krupp are different conglomerates. Krups made precision scales beginning in 1846 and post war began making consumer appliances and not tools of warfare.

      Krupp made steel ammunition and armaments beginning in 1810 and was the largest company in Europe at the start of the 20th century.

      Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works and Mitsubishi Urakami Ordnance Works in Nagasaki were secondary bombing targets of the US Army Air Force B-29 Bockscar which dropped the “Fat Man” nuclear weapon. (see Bockscar).

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