Airborne communications experts at L3Harris Technologies will provide kits to enable six digital datalinks to enable the MH-60R multimission helicopter to share its sensor information in real time with surface warships under terms of a $10.4 million order announced on Monday. Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., are asking L-3Harris Communication Systems-West in Salt Lake City to build six common datalink Hawklink AN/SRQ-4 kits..
..and components for MH-60R helicopter operated by U.S. military allies.
The L3Harris rugged AN/SRQ-4 Hawklink shipboard terminal is aboard Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers, and provides command and control, sensor data transfer, datalink operation, and built-in test, L3Harris officials say....MORE
