Miniature common data link terminal

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On July 31, 2007, L-3 Communications announced the successful flight test of a one poound Common Data Link (CDL) compliant, software-programmable terminal on a small unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The small, fully ruggedized system, including a digital modem, RF electronics and amplifiers, transmitted full motion video at 45 Mbps and 10.71 Mbps to three different CDL ground stations. The transceiver, flown in Salt Lake City, Utah and witnessed by representatives from the U.S. Air Force, Army and Marine Corps, makes no interoperability compromises to achieve its revolutionary small size.

To date, L-3 has provided over 500 CDL terminals to a variety of manned and unmanned platforms, providing armed forces worldwide with reliable, high capacity communications.

Additional Ground tests witnessed by Government representatives at the Surface/Aviation Interoperability Laboratory (SAIL), Patuxent River Naval Air Station, showed the terminal interoperates with two different Naval CDL surface terminals manufactured by different vendors.