Good find by Rhapsodyinblue (posted to wrong board)
Defence conference last week in Belgium.
(Belgium the host to SHAPE and NATO)
From the conference programme
Sanswire family of Airships - Uses for the Airship
Homeland security support capabilities
mobile communications relay for surface and air troops
battlefield tactical communications relay
Real-time immediate orthorectification image processing
command and control uplinks and downlinks for time critical ISR data
GPS and SATCOM data/communications relay
data relay to or from AWACS or JSTARS assets to other air or ground assets
extensive electronic warfare (EW) system platform to aid "blue force" operations
Bob Jones, President, Sanswire Networks, LLC.
Professor Dr Bernd Kroeplin, Project Co-ordinator, University Of Stuttgart Institute Of Sanitary Engineering.
