Sunday, November 13, 2011

Lack Of Satellite Bandwidth Limiting French UAVs


French Air Chief: UAVs Taxing Available Satellite Bandwidth -- Defense News

DUBAI - A move to a new standard communications band is needed because of a saturation of current bandwidth, French Air Chief of Staff Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros said Nov. 12.

Increasingly relied-upon unmanned aerial vehicles such as Predators, Reapers and the French Harfang generate huge amounts of data, including full motion video, and complex sensors such as high definition video, laser designators, imaging radar, ground moving target indicators and multispectral imagers demand high bandwidth for transmission, Palomeros told an Air Chiefs conference ahead of the Dubai Airshow's Nov. 13 opening.

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My Comment:
20 gigabits of info per second .... no way. But if true .... WOW!

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Mark said...

anyways.. I want one of these for christmas! :D