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Larry Dighera wrote:

From what I recall, the military has no intention to equip its
aircraft with ADA/B.

Who declared the military's intention wrt ADS-B equippage? What person?
What office?

Is the MITRE document on the ADS-B/Link-16 gateway your only source
for your belief wrt the military intention wrt ADS-B equippage?



Instead, there has been a proposal to create
another (ground based) system to broadcast their position to the ADS/B
network.

Borrelli's demo of a ADS-B/Link-16 gateway was just that, a demo.

Did you read it?

Yes. Did you?.

"Disclaimer: 'The statements contained herein are that of the author and not of
the FAA, nor of the United States Air Force.'"

"demonstrated", "prototype"...

"In this paper, the reader is introduced to the purpose of this demonstration,
objectives, the experience during three days of flight testing, and conclusions.
Finally, the paper provides a recommendation to develop a Concept of Operations
(CONOPS) in order to proceed with system deployment."

Do you believe the assertions made in that document
are inaccurate?

Is there part of the paper that you think is the military's position on ADS-B?


That would seem to defeat the ability of ADS/B equipped
aircraft to detect each other independent of third parties.

well, until the Mode S mafia stops insisting that Mode S can be used for
ADS-B we are going to have a problem with the ability to detect ALL
other traffic without any gateway.

Are you aware of an ADS/B system that isn't based on Mode S?

Yes. There is the UAT. If you go to the FAA website a couple of the
recent press releases on ADS-B mention the FAA "decision" to have Mode-S
and UAT as the two datalinks for ADS-B.



I expect DoD aircraft will get ADS-B, assuming sufficient funding is
provided by Congress.

They claim there is no room to install the equipment in many of their
aircraft:

Who is "they"?

IIRC, it was in the at the link I provided in my previous followup.

MITRE?

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Bob Noel
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