It can also be used to monitor air-to-air and air-to-ground communications between and among others.
The Seawolf submarine, the C-17 transport aircraft, several different air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles are in the cross-hairs.
You may recall Airfone, the air-to-ground pay phone service that debuted on commercial flights in the 1980s.
Britain has also started to put these principles into practice, by pledging to buy aircraft-carriers, giant transport aircraft, and sophisticated air-to-ground surveillance systems.
Gogo's ATG-4 technology is capable of delivering a peak speed of 9.8 Mbps, triple the peak speed of 3.1 Mbps enabled by the previous air-to-ground network.
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The contracts received in the past month range from providing air-to-ground missiles and missile defense systems to light tactical vehicles that can transport troops safely through combat zones.
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As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.
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The Americans are trying to use e-mail for routine ground-to-air communication, freeing voice channels and lightening the load for controllers.
The Greek-Cypriots say they will deploy Russian-made ground-to-air missiles next summer.
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Targets selected by the United States since the air operation began Sunday have included air defense facilities, ground-to-air missile sites, and command and control facilities of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and the al Qaeda terror network.
American and Italian soldiers were helping to build and run tent cities for the refugees, even as Apache attack helicopters, multiple rocket-launchers and sophisticated ground-to-air missiles were on their way for possible use against Yugoslavia.
Artillery was gradually replaced by tactical missiles in the defensive role, but the Air Force was too busy building a fleet of long-range bombers and supersonic fighters to be bothered with ground-based air defenses, while Army troops had a clear need for such defenses.
The FAA says funding for the new fee system, combined with federal money, would shift the 40-year-old ground-based air traffic control system to a satellite-based, cockpit-to-cockpit system that is safer and more efficient.
Some analysts say it may have used the proceeds to acquire sophisticated weapons such as shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles.
For others, the issue has been whether Israel's now combined air-, sea- and ground-assault was "proportionate" to the rocket and mortar attacks it has suffered.
Some reports suggest they have acquired shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles, which could sharply tilt the balance.
In seven separate caches, arms were found, among them over 1, 200kg of explosives, two Russian-made ground-to-air missiles, 44 submachineguns and an assortment of pistols.
According to Allen and his partners, this air-launch-to-orbit system is far less expensive and far more flexible than traditional ground launches, which are still used by some private companies for satellite launches.
British Airways cancelled all flights to Nairobi after reports of possible ground-to-air attacks.
The week-long fighting in Qusair intensified early on Saturday, when activists reported heavy bombardments, including two ground-to-ground missiles and an air strike as well as artillery and rocket fire.
Cue the dispatch of three Japanese destroyers equipped with missile interceptors to the East China Sea near Okinawa, and the positioning of ground-to-air PAC-3 missile-busters on land nearby.
On Friday days after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Russian officials in Moscow and raised concerns over Russian arms shipments to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad the Kremlin said it would go ahead with deliveries of ground-to-air missile systems for the Assad government.
Whether it's Gogo's exclusive air to ground and ATG-4 technologies, SES's Ku-band satellites or, Inmarsat's Global Xpress Ka-band satellite technologies, we plan to offer a full range of connectivity solutions for any aircraft mission.
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The Ministry of Defence has stressed that the government has not yet decided to deploy ground-based air defence systems during the Games.
Between January and February, Sudanese forces killed 115 people -- including women, children and elderly -- in air and ground attacks on four Darfur villages, according to the report.
When asked last year about the rules of engagement for tear gas, he told the BBC that police in America are trained not to fire head-high and to either arc the canister into the air or roll it on the ground.
In April, Sudan and South Sudan slipped close to all-out war with a series of tit-for-tat air raids and ground attacks that prompted the African Union and Security Council to push the two sides to act.
Gogo's ground-to-air transmitters typically mandate evaluating service while jetting around the country above 10, 000 feet.
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