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U.S. Air Force Tests New Communications Pod for B-52

Frank Wolfe

Friday, May 12th, 2023

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U.S. Air Force Tests New Communications Pod for B-52

An Agile Pod-26 is fitted on a B-52 Stratofortress, at Barksdale AFB, La. on Jan. 10 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) said that it is undertaking a demonstration to equip B-52H bombers with advanced communications. "“The AgilePod TENTaCLE [Tactical Edge Network Targeting in a Contested Long-Range Environment] program started as an OSD Rapid Prototyping Program, which allows us to quickly provide these needs to our bombers without the years-long timelines required for a permanent modification to the aircraft,” Nate Dawn, chief of AFGSC's strategic plans and programs modernization, integration, and technology transition branch,…

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