Communications

The U.S. Air Force has extended the deployment of two E11 Bombardier BD-700 Global Express executive jets operated by Northrop Grumman in support of ground operations in Afghanistan. #43 million will maintain the aircraft in service in Afghanistan until January 2012.

Start < Page 2 of 7 > The urban environment creates many unique difficulties for modern military operations. Communications become limited and unreliable due to multi-path reflections from walls, and electromagnetic masking by thick concrete and steel structures. These effects cause degradation in the Quality Of Service (QOS) for both voice and data networks, even at very short ranges. In addition to...

Start < Page 4 of 7 > To support the brigade level and above, these services rely on dedicated trunks for broadband connectivity. Such radios offer wireless connectivity at rates from 1 MB to 16MB. Where transfer of images or video is required, higher data rates become imperative, links are being implemented with modern high speed digital networks. These services are...

FELIN is a modular infantry combat suite, offering efficient ergonomics, autonomy and weight saving. In March 2004 Sagem Defense Systems won the French Defense R&D Directorate (DGA) contract to develop and produce up to 30,000 infantry combat suits, to be fielded with all French Army active infantry regiments by 2010 as part of the future air/ground system of systems...

Start < Page 5 of 8 > There is one important item in communications, which was overlooked for some time, due to fast developing technologies- the ability to monitor, simultaneously, several communications channels by the same commander, in popular parlance "eavesdropping". The advantage of FM radios afforded this through auxiliary receivers in regular AFVs. However, according to reports coming out of...

Start < Page 1 of 7 > The military establishment is currently transforming itself to fully benefit from advanced information networking technology. In the past two decades, fundamental changes were introduced to the military infrastructure; new information systems were implemented, improving availability and management of information. But the flow of information normally fail severely, as soon as forces start moving -...

The Falcon III multiband, multimission, manpack tactical radio offers wideband, secure networking, capable of supporting multiple wavebands from 30 MHz up to 2 GHz, including support of commercial L-Band SATCOM and wideband mobile ad-hoc networking. The Falcon III manpack radio provides 20 watts of output power. it includes embedded encryption for voice and data. Additionally, the radio includes an...

Cobham SATCOM has developed what is claimed to be the smallest and lightest Inmarsat UAV satcom solution. Mounted within the airframe and measuring 24cm x 16cm x 6cm, the AVIATOR UAV 200 delivers up to 200 kbps data and full, real-time control of data channels.

MaXess provides real-time, broadband intra-command wireless LAN, supporting rich multimedia communications between the elements of a command posts. The system supports two operating modes – MW-LAN supports networking at 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbps transfer rates, including forward error correction, over intra-command post wireless LAN, over a range of 0.25 square kilometer (500x500 meters). The system uses modified COTS IEEE...

Cubic Defense Applications is developing a new multiband digital data link system for the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter.Cubic is developing the new datalink under a $3.7 million contract awarded by the MQ-8C prime contractor Northrop Grumman.

Traditionally, land forces combat and service support units rely on voice communications for operations, coordination and control. Units or subunits operating under specific command (such as companies in a battalion) share a common frequency, or – as typical with modern radio systems – a series of frequencies which enable rapid frequency hopping, for improved security, immunity from interference and...

Among the new hardware types at AUSA 06 were two military computing devices, the RPDA-57 and Tacter 31M introduced by Tadiran's local subsidiary Talla-Tech. KVH unveiled a new Rugged Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) based application, combining hardware, software and communications. The system utilizes special purpose PDA called Convoy Comms, designed to provide an intra-convoy communications messaging system which provides the convoy...

Early strike missions employed laser-guided weapons exclusively, and required the launching platform, or advanced target designation parties on the ground, to maintain constant line-of-sight, to designate the target by laser from relatively short range. What made such attack mission even more effective, was the ability to share imagery from the UAV with ground forces, coordinating an attack through a 'short cycle', rather...

After the successful fielding of the Command Post of the Future (CPOF) with brigades and battalions, formally integrated into the Army Battle Command System (ABCS) DARPA aims lower, at the platoon level and below, providing warfighters with internet-style tools for mission planning, post mission debriefing and situational understanding. Handling the masses of data and imagery streaming from the field, new...