After publishing the article about the NASA’s WB-57 planes, Aviationintel‘s Tyler Rogoway provided some more details about the BACN (Battlefield Airborne Communication Node). “BACN actually provides an active net over the battlefield and works as an almost “universal translator” when it comes to various datalinks used in different platforms (LINK16/SADL/FDL)” he wrote me. “It orbits high [...]
