Bigfork, MT, Could, 2024 – uAvionix, a number one supplier of low Measurement Weight and Energy (SWaP) avionics for aerospace and protection, together with their associate R Cubed Engineering, introduced right this moment the AIMS Mk XIIB certification of the RT-2087/ZPX-1 (ZPX-1), the World’s first AIMS-certified Mode 5 Micro-IFF (Identification Pal or Foe) Mixed Transponder Receiver (CTR) and the primary ever Mode 5 CTR to be AIMS-certified when paired to the newly licensed KIV-79. The groundbreaking achievement delivers enhanced situational consciousness and Fight ID capabilities for tactical warfighters within the fashionable battlespace with crewed and uncrewed plane.
Paul Beard, Chief Technical Officer at uAvionix, acknowledged, “hostilities in Japanese Europe and the Pacific Rim are presently of nice concern and getting a whole lot of considerate evaluation on how greatest to handle these rising threats. If nothing else, the ZPX-1 CTR places one other, arguably extra fashionable, surveillance and Fight ID software into the warfighter’s toolbox.”
In attaining Mk XIIB certification, ZPX-1 follows its predecessor, the RT-2087/ZPX (ZPX), a 68-gram Mico-IFF transponder. The ZPX-1, with its passive Mode 5 receiver, is the one AIMS-certified Micro-IFF answer assembly the U.S. Military’s Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS) Increment 2 program necessities. This ensures full CTR performance, making it ultimate for platforms needing complete IFF capabilities together with Mode 5 Stage 2 Broadcast reception.
ZPX-1 presents the warfighter a broad vary of conventional IFF transponder performance mixed with a passive receiver for better situational consciousness and assist for detect & keep away from capabilities. It helps civil modes A, C, S (with Enhanced Surveillance), and ADS-B Out, provides navy modes 1, 2, 3, and Mode 5 Ranges 1, 2, and 2-Broadcast Out (2-B Out), and consists of receiver capabilities: civil ADS-B In and navy Mode 5 Ranges 2 and 2-B In. Importantly, ZPX-1 innovatively pairs with a single KIV-79 crypto for each transmit and receiver performance, lowering prices whereas assembly the efficiency requirements of AIMS 17-1000 Rev 1.1 and testing regimens AIMS 1101 and 1301.
Earlier AIMS certifications coated transponders, interrogators, and mixed interrogator transponders (CITs). Whereas transponders allow interplay with Air Visitors Management or appropriately outfitted plane, interrogators in a CIT carry out Fight ID by discriminating between close by buddies and potential enemies. The ZPX-1 CTR, with its passive receiver, presents a quiet various to lively interrogation, enhancing operational safety by avoiding emissions that may very well be focused by anti-radiation weapons. The mixture of a 91-gram CTR with a 176-gram KIV-79 crypto, a bundle that weighs below 10 oz, expands operational prospects for airborne platforms as small as Group 1. Notably, this permits small tactical drones to hold a transponder and passive receiver with all of the protected battlefield situational consciousness, Fight ID assist, and interoperability afforded by NATO’s newest interoperability commonplace: Mode 5.
ZPX-1 is a results of collaboration between uAvionix and prime contractor R Cubed Engineering. Supported by Navy and Military funding, R Cubed contracted with uAvionix early in 2020 and the partnership initially produced the AIMS Mk XIIB-certified ZPX Micro-IFF transponder for small Uncrewed Aerial Techniques (sUAS). The ZPX-1, blends the unique ZPX with the uAvionix ZPR passive Mode 5 receiver and leverages a typical kind issue and software program interface to offer present ZPX customers with a close to seamless improve to the extra succesful ZPX-1.
About uAvionix
uAvionix was based in 2015 with the mission of bringing security options to the unmanned aviation business to assist within the integration of Unmanned Plane Techniques (UAS). A basic precept of that mission is to offer options that permit all airspace customers a typical situational consciousness of the airspace. For protection and aerospace uAvionix develops and manufactures revolutionary uncertified and AIMS-certified Mode 5 Micro-IFF transponders, passive receivers, and associated merchandise and equipment. uAvionix consists of an unparalleled engineering and administration crew with a novel mixture of expertise encompassing avionics, surveillance, protection operations, airport providers, UAS plane growth, radio frequency (RF), and semiconductor industries.
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