STANAG 3910 is a NATO standard and, as such, guarantees an intrinsic openness to each architecture built upon it. STANAG 3910 is also related to two major European fighter programs: EFA and Rafale. Moreover, since it is an efficient, versatile and cost-effective bus, it will certainly be the avionic data bus standard for the next 20 years in Europe. After a quick overview on how it works, this papers tresses the important characteristics of the products that Dassault Electronique developed for implementing it.
As an important consequence, any potential customer is now sure that STANAG 3910 is a reality , fully supported by offerings of off-the-shelf certified and validated products and, last but not least, that it constitues, from now on, an extremely attractive solution to all kinds of upgrade or retrofit programs that can be thought of for present platforms.