Thales selects Barco displays for Belgian Air Force C-130 Electronic Warfare upgrade
Farnborough International Airshow, UK, 17 July 2006 - Thales has selected Barco's brand-new CHDD-254 Cockpit Head Down Displays for the Electronic Warfare upgrade of the Belgian Air Force C-130 aircraft. The 5 x 4 inch CHDD-254 display is the first member of Barco’s new, innovative CHDD-2000 display family.
Under the contract, Barco will provide CHDD-254 displays to be connected to the Thales Electronic Warfare suite that will be mounted onto the Belgian Air Force C-130H fleet. The low weight, low power CHDD-254 displays are qualified to meet the most stringent airborne cockpit environmental requirements and are designed according to DO-254 and DO-178B standards. Their excellent optical characteristics, including NVIS, their multiple analog or digital video inputs and their integrated video processing capabilities offer an unlimited degree of freedom for all types of avionics system integration.Barco is pleased with this early contract, following immediately upon the CHDD-2000 family launch. The CHDD-2000 family displays are intended to be installed on both new and retrofit aircraft in both landscape and portrait configuration. The displays are designed to offer Barco's renowned optical quality in a variety of pure video applications (FLIR, mission, WxR, EVS, Moving Map, etc.) and/or primary flight applications (EFIS) up to DO-178B Level A. For the latter, Barco can offer its PU-2000 as a symbol generator source and its MOSArt platform for third party software development. A multitude of keyboard designs and a touch panel option make it possible to support every cockpit function.
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