Didn't say we did tie it in to weapons, besides the MC-130E doesn't have any
weapons aside from the BLU-82 (and we can already put that where we need
to). We already had a GPS on the plane. We used the hand held only as a
demonstrator, because we had no way (without megabucks mod) to get GPS into
the laptop software. Our purpose was to demonstrate the application, so we
could push for the megabucks mod.

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Les
F-4C(WW),D,E,G(WW)/AC-130A/MC-130E EWO (ret)

"Harry Andreas" wrote in message
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In article rI7fb.45205$a16.36568@lakeread01, "Les Matheson"
wrote:

When I was still on active duty, we were doing some navigation
experiments
with moving map technology in the MC-130E. Basically we took a handheld
Garmin GPS and cabled it to two Dell laptops running a flight planning
program. Additionally we did some radio tie-ins to get real time e-mail
over HF for inflight updates. besides text, we pushed photos from plane
to
ground, plane to plane and ground to plane. All was commercial
software,
and except for the secure HF radio it was commercial hardware.

Commercial GPS works OK in a transport, even a transport with weapons :-)
But you didn't tie the commercial GPS in to the weapons system.
The reason is that it does not have the data rate nor the accuracy to
target weapons.

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Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur