Air Force to demo secure communications between F-22, F-35 next month

By Sara Sirota / November 8, 2019 at 11:39 AM
The Air Force will test whether an F-22 and F-35 can communicate via a secure data link during a demonstration that’s expected to occur in December, according to a senior official. "The main point is that we want to make both of them able to communicate and share information over a link that allows them . . . to protect their survivability," Preston Dunlap, the Air Force’s chief architect, said at the Defense One Outlook 2020 conference Thursday. He said...

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