A-7 Aloft Demonstration. Master Test Plan,

The A-7 ALOFT Airborne Light Optical Fiber Technology demonstration was organized to display the advantages of fiber optics over conventional technologies in short, point-to-point applications generally and to confirm the feasibility of using fiber optics specifically for internal information transfer in weapon systems. A multiplexed E-O interface will replace certain wire transmission channels in the navigationweapons delivery system NWDS of an A-7 aircraft. This document outlines the test efforts required in order to provide complete integration of the demonstration hardware into the A-7 NWDS.