The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced that it has signed a contract with Cobham Mission Systems to provide it with a new GGU-25 oxygen intelligent concentrator, which will be part of the entire fleet system upgrade of the T-45 Goshawk jet trainer. Press release on March 9.
Asif Ahmed, Cobham’s business development manager, told Avionics that the GGU-25 is an upgraded version of the Cobham GGU-7 concentrator, and provides oxygen-enriched breathing gas to the pilot’s mask through the pilot as part of the pilot’s life support system. International in email.
“In the past ten years, we have greatly improved the technology and design standards of oxygen concentrators to further support combat personnel and ensure real-time monitoring of important combat data,” Coham Mission Systems, Inc. Business Development and Strategy Senior Vice President Jason Apelquist (Jason Apelquist) said. A statement. “We are very pleased to be able to deliver our GGU-25 to this fleet. It is an upgraded version of the traditional product GGU-7 on the T-45. This will ensure that naval pilots can fully breathe under all conditions. ”
GGU-25 is an upgraded version of Cobham GGU-7, which is part of the pilot’s life support system. It supplies oxygen-enriched breathing gas to the pilot’s mask through a regulator. (Cobham)
Ahmed said the system will also monitor and record data on the aircraft during the training flight. This data can be provided to the pilot during the flight, or it can be analyzed after the flight. This data can be used to troubleshoot unexplained physiological episodes (UPE) in flight.
UPE is an abnormal human physiological condition that may cause pilots across different types of aircraft to experience blood flow, oxygen, or fatigue-based symptoms related to a range of possible conditions, such as hypoxia (hypoxia in the brain), hypocapnia (decreased carbon) ) Carbon dioxide in the blood), hypercapnia (increased carbon dioxide in the blood) or G-LOC (loss of consciousness caused by gravity).
In recent years, the use of new methods and technologies to reduce the number of UPEs experienced by military pilots on various fighter jets, helicopters and special mission aircraft has become the main focus of various US military branches. On December 1, the National Military Aviation Safety Committee released a 60-page report that analyzed the causes of UPE, past efforts, and data collection and reporting methods for past problems.
Cobham’s GGU-25 technology is also used in its SureSTREAM concentrator for other aircraft systems.
Ahmed said: “The technology used in GGU-25 is the same as that used in Cobham’s SureSTREAM concentrator, which has been certified and deployed on an aircraft platform so far.” “SureSTREAM currently has many in development. Qualified for other aircraft platforms and will be put into a wide range of services in the next few years.”
Post time: Mar-11-2021