the Irish Air Corps and the C-295 aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force. But FITS is now part of the standard equipment of reconnaissance aircraft on the other side of the Atlantic: The CN-235 aircraft of the US Coast Guard are also equipped with FITS technology. Visualization The key link between users and the information provided by the system is ILOG visualization technology, specifically ILOG Views. Apart from the symbology, ILOG Views provides the text menus for controlling the sensors, as well as the captured video data and the cartography of the mission area. The graphics can be easily adapted, intuitively controlled and hence form one of the keys for the flexibility of FITS. Without this flexibility, the reaction time of the crew would be substantially longer and the entire system would be much less suitable, for example, in the deployment of marine patrols. A key factor in the decision by EADS to adopt ILOG Views was the same reason governing the entire development of FITS. All the systems included are equipped with standard interfaces so that further development is possible at a later date with relatively little expenditure. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091611/http://www.eads.com/xml/content/OF00000000400003/6/50/41463506.pdf http://www.eads.net/800/de/businet/miltrair/c295/persuader/persuader.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091736/http://www.eads.com/1024/de/businet/miltrair/fits.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070520192535/http://www.eads.com/1024/de/businet/miltrair/publications.html http://ilog.com/corporate/connection/spring2003/customer.cfm#eads Military tactics