5th Generation Fighter Finds Room for Aircraft Monitoring Instrumentation

5th Generation Fighter Finds Room for Aircraft Monitoring Instrumentation
5th Generation Fighter Finds Room for Aircraft Monitoring Instrumentation
Case Study
May 30, 2019

5th Generation Fighter Finds Room for Aircraft Monitoring Instrumentation

Like most aircraft, military airborne platform production is preceded by extensive flight tests to verify the aircraft and its sub-systems’ performance. The development testing phase usually has adequate room for mounting equipment, but the available space and mounting locations become severely limited for operational aircraft. The traditional solution of mounting an external pod for collecting operational and mission data isn’t an option for modern 5th generation aircraft as it negates the aerodynamics and stealth characteristics.

The required monitoring system needed to collect a range of data, some with high rates. The program was also evolving, so the data acquisition and recorder system needed to adapt to lower the platform development risk.

As test and mission times grow, the amount collected and recorded from the high data rate buses grows exponentially. The need for real-time mission and safety-critical data at the ground mission control room imposes another requirement for the FTI data acquisition and recorder – namely transmission of critical data, in real-time, over a bandwidth-limited RF telemetry link. Thus the system needed a way to “cherry-pick” data to send to the ground.

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