ViaSat Inc. and the U.S. Army extended the vehicular Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT2) demonstration with U.S. Army Aviation BFT2 demonstrations aboard a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter.
    ViaSat’s ArcLight BFT2 satellite communication network delivered 122 kilobits per second of IP traffic to ground terminals over an Inmarsat I-4 satellite channel, compared to the 5.2 kilobits per second performance of the current BFT system.
    ViaSat also completed a number of demonstrations of the aviation version of the BFT2 terminal on a Blackhawk helicopter maneuvering at speeds up to 150 knots.

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