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1999
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The digital revolution is spreading to the battlefield and a leading light, the Comanche, will be on view at Paris PAUL LEWIS/NASHVILLE HE US MILITARY is preparing for a warfare revolution by forming the world's first digitised army early next century. At die head of this planned Army XXI will be the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche armed scout/attack helicopter. Battlefield digitisation entails the fusing of a broad range of ground, airborne and space- based command, control, communication and intelligence-gathering systems. The strategy is to win the war by dominating and exploiting information. Comanche was designed as one of The Comanche is designed as one of the main information conduit on the future battlefield the main means by which to achieve this goal. "This platform is not just another system - it's an asset with a multirole-ability to gain infor mation dominance and then pass on that infor mation to the critical command and control people, the intelligence people, to the manoeu vre elements and guys in fire support," says US Army RAH-66 programme manager, Brig Gen Joseph Bergantz. Comanche will plug into a pan-military information exchange network and as such • 112 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 9 - 15 June 1999
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