The Air Force is developing this capability under the WDLN Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) programme. The WDLN’s two-way communication is designed to allow warfighters to designate moving targets; relay inflight weapon commands, such as target-location updates and re-targeting; generate seeker commands to track a moving target; and transmit damage assessment information. For the flight tests, Boeing provided surrogate F15E launch platform avionics, a Small Diameter Bomb guidance unit, Link-16 and UHF Weapon Data Links and a surrogate weapon seeker. The tests were performed on a Boeing King Air test-bed aircraft.
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