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Airbus To Modernize German Armed Forces Identification Systems

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

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Airbus To Modernize German Armed Forces Identification Systems

STR 2000 Transponder, the type that will be upgraded to the Mode 5 IFF standard in Germany. Photo: Airbus Defence and Space.

Germany’s procurement authority awarded Airbus Defence and Space a multi-million Euro follow-on contract to upgrade the German Armed Forces’ identification systems to NATO’s new “Mode 5” Identification-Friend-or-Foe (IFF) standard, the company said on Tuesday. The upgrade will improve the existing IFF interrogator and transponder equipment. The contract covers adapting the existing STR 2000 transponders aboard aircraft in the German Armed Forces to the latest Mode 5. It also applies to the Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar (MSSR) 2000 I interrogators in…

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