{"id":199868,"date":"2007-06-21T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/21\/f-22-superjets-could-act-as-flying-wi-fi-hotspots-the-register\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T11:51:00","slug":"f-22-superjets-could-act-as-flying-wi-fi-hotspots-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/21\/f-22-superjets-could-act-as-flying-wi-fi-hotspots-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"F-22 superjets could act as flying Wi-Fi hotspots | The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons that this is of interest is that the current version of the F-22 does not have a good data path out. It was designed to operate nearly autonomously over Warsaw Pact integrated air-defense networks, so the idea is that data would go in, but not out.<\/p>\n

This hack to the radar fixes this.<\/p>\n

F-22 superjets could act as flying Wi-Fi hotspots<\/a>
By Lewis Page
Published Tuesday 19th June 2007 15:20 GMT<\/p>\n

US defence contractors have carried out the first flight tests in which America’s latest cutting-edge fighter targeting radars have been put to novel use – as high-capacity wireless datalinks. This crafty use of existing hardware has the potential to ease military bandwidth bottlenecks, and could offer a chance for expensive superfighters to be of use even in the absence of serious aerial opposition.<\/p>\n


The most expensive Wi-Fi hotspot in the world?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The latest generation of US military aircraft carry so-called Active Electronically Scanned Array* (AESA) radars, which are made up of many separate transmit-receive elements. AESA radars have long been heralded as miraculous multi-tasking kit, capable of acting as electronic-warfare scanners, jammers, or even electromagnetic weapons capable of frying enemy circuitry from afar.<\/p>\n

There have also been ground trials<\/a> in which the radar from America’s ultra-advanced, hyper-expensive F-22 “Raptor” stealth superfighter has been used as a kind of Wi-Fi card on steroids, able to transmit data at a blistering 548 Mbit\/sec and receive it at Gigabit speed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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