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Northrop Grumman And RAF Complete Communications Interoperability Trial With F-35B, Typhoon

Friday, February 17th, 2017

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) successfully completed a communications interoperability trial with the service's F-35B and Typhoon FGR4 aircraft, the company said Feb. 15.The trial, Babel Fish III, lasted for two weeks and was funded by the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MOD). It was conducted in airspace above the upper Mojave Desert in California as part of the RAF’s Exercise High Rider. Northrop Grumman said this occurred “recently.”This test was facilitated via an Airborne…

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