At 12:51 PM 12/16/95, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Chris Mason wrote:
>>
>> > Also, does anyone know how I can find out what all these mysteriously named
>> > chips in my PM7100 do (i.e DPath, AWACS, etc.)?
>>
>> Isn't AWACS a semi-experimental jet aircraft that does wide area radar
>> sweeps for military invasions?  Airborne Warning And Control System, I
>> believe....  Just wondering.  Oops.  That's AWACs, plural of AWAC, the
>> above.  Sorry.  I just looked it up in my 10 lb. dictionary
>
>AFAIK, that's it. But I thought it has been in service for many years
>(like 10 or 15), and it does theater-wide air traffic management. Such
>as they'd hang out in Sudi Arabia and be directing fighters over all of
>Iraq, or, before the German Re-Unification, during a war, they would
>have hung out around the Rhine & directed fighters all over Germany.
>

That's the military use of an AWACS, but it could be used to supplement an
area's radar traffic control, such as if an aiport had it's radar go out,
you could use an AWACS to replace it for a while, and get far better range
too.  Yes, AWACS are old too.

So what's an AFAIK?  The chip he was trying to talk about?

Shawn.

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