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The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) is a communications relay and gateway system that enables real-time information flow across the battlespace between similar and dissimilar tactical data link and voice systems through relay, bridging, and data translation in line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight situations.
The BACN can allow surface and air forces to overcome communications difficulties caused by rough terrain, distance and different types of communications networks employed by different types of aircraft and equipment.
The unit cost of a single E-11A equipped with the BACN has not been officially revealed. However, it is approximately $1 billion. In January 2020, the Pentagon announced that Northrop Grumman Systems was awarded a $217.2 million modification contract to support payload equipment and services for the BACN. Work will be carried out in San Diego and at undisclosed overseas locations, with an expected completion date of January 23, 2021. The total cost of the contract after the recent modification is $570.2 million.
I wonder what happenned to the 4th aircraft?….oh wait, scrub that, or rather it was scrubbed, by Iran.
Surely was shot down by Irani squad using sofisticate manpads with IFF…its not reliable an accident in that modern plane above all full of CIA members many of them aimed as the heads who organize the murder of Soleimani…
Yep, and fried D’Andrea was served to the CIA: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0ea4c43efe3e3e9025306897b850c05007f47ecbafacf78aba5618a4f91f01a6.jpg
and the whole team of CIA cunts onboard :)
A piece of shit Canuck crap and a Misagh2 at 25,000 feet took care of that and the CIA cunts that were on it. Nothing to write home about :)
puzzling–amerikan soldiers r too obsess and confused w marijuana and meth to traverse difficult terrain; perhaps this is used to assist their ISIS, jihadi proxies