Communication
system for a tactical air defense
system (200), comprising: a communications
base station (90) which can be connected to a command post (300) of the tactical air defense
system (200) via a wired data
network connection (E); one or more edge gateways (10) which are in bidirectional radio communication with the communication
base station (90) and which are designed to exchange data with the communication
base station (90) according to a common communication protocol; and one or more
peripheral adapters (80) which can be connected to one or more edge gateways (10) via wired data network connections (E) and which are designed for the
data connection of a
peripheral element (500) to the tactical air defense system (200), characterized in that the one or more
peripheral adapters (80) each have a core interface (53) and a peripheral interface (47) designed to transmit data exchanged between an edge gateway (10) and a peripheral element (500), to convert regarding a
data format and a communication protocol, that the core interface (53) has an instantiated core interface driver (55) which is controlled by an interaction rule set (49) of the peripheral adapter (80) instantiated according to the system
component type of the peripheral element (500), and a core interface state
machine instantiated according to the system
component type of the peripheral element (500), and that operating states of the peripheral element (500) are controllable from the command post (300) of the tactical air defense system (200) via the instantiated core interface state
machine of the core interface (53).