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Lil Hitler
 Post subject: What is it?
PostPosted: 02 Jul 2008, 22:21 
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While I was editing some recent pictures, I noticed this sticking up on the backbone of one of the Acft. I know it's a antenna but can anyone be more specific?

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New communications system, one that's been needed for a while.

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It's called BLOS. IDK what it stands for, only a few of the jets have it, it's in progress for the rest of them now.

It works with certain phones (satellite ones maybe?) and has a few other capabilities.
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Lil Hitler
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Thanks guys, I kind of figured it was some kind of sat link sure beats the pilots having to use the hand held devices they used in the desert. JackB fyi did a search for BLOS and came up with Beyond Line of Sight..

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Yup something like that.

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Yes, that is correct. As most of you know, the existing UHF/VHF worked by line-of-sight only. BLOS corrects that and adds some excellent new communication capabilities...this isn't the place to go into it, but I am willing to share more info through .mil e-mail. Just PM me and I will give you my .mil address.

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