New generation communication terminals are being developed for the US Army, resistant to the effects of electronic warfare

The Pentagon is implementing a program to modernize the communications system for military personnel. This program is being implemented due to the fact that, as they say in the American military department itself, the existing communication systems are increasingly becoming vulnerable to enemy weapons, including electronic warfare (EW). It is pointed out that the applied software protocols and hardware allow the enemy "to distort the signal or intercept it for further use for their own purposes."

To increase the level of security in terms of communication between the military, a program is being implemented to re-equip the US Army with radio communication devices.

It is reported that the development of the Leonardo DRS company will most likely be taken as a basis. This technology belongs to a new generation. The tactical communication terminal itself, based on it, is about 60% lighter than existing analogues and is several times more protected from external influences.

From the report:

The built-in wide-range transceiver provides continuous awareness of millions of threats, generates real-time tracking reports, and will be used to plan and execute missions.

Such communication terminals are planned to be installed in combat vehicles. They take up less space and are capable of transmitting signals over long distances without interference in virtually any environment. The battery is rated for 7 years. However, it can be replaced in the field.

It is indicated that a promising communication terminal allows the exchange of data under conditions of intense radio-electronic interference. At the moment, the specific performance characteristics of the communications complex for the US Army are not announced.

The next generation communication terminals should begin to enter the troops in 2023. By 2025, it is planned to re-equip the US Army with them completely.

Comments

[aszzz888]

They take up less space and are capable of transmitting signals over long distances without interference in virtually any environment.

For everyу nut, there is the desired bolt. And about the interference - the grandmother said in two.

[Zhan]

With modern technologies, it will not be difficult to locate operating frequencies and interfere with them. And no amount of warnings about millions of threats will help ..

[aszzz888]

Zhan
Today, 09: 06

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It will not be difficult to locate the operating frequencies and interfere with them with modern technologies .. smile And no warnings about millions of threats will help .. smile

Here I am about the same! They have not yet been tested by any of our electronic warfare devices, but have already defeated everyone. However, as always - they have Hollywood in the first place.

[mva]

But it does not have operating frequencies, what do you want to take direction finding? Noisy broadband signal?

[dauria]

With modern technologies, it will not be difficult to locate the operating frequencies and interfere with them.

The signal is spread over the entire range, modulating with a sequence of short pulses. The selection is not frequency, but code. As an example - Barker codes. That is, in the noise of a wide range, there is a huge heap of simultaneous transmissions that do not interfere with each other. And they are distinguished not by frequency selection, but by a correlation technique.
The power is not enough to crush the entire range.
Actually, Wai-Fai in an apartment building is built according to this principle ..

[Bradley]

It will not be difficult to locate the operating frequencies and interfere with them with modern technologies .. smile And no warnings about millions of threats will help .. smile

And also, if you track their M4, turn on the electronic warfare, then all M4s will jam or they will explode.
But what can we say, a fighter plane flew over me the other day (they were preparing for the parade), and during the flight the gearbox stopped working. I squeeze the clutch, but it does not squeeze, and the gear shift knob is stuck. So I went to the 2nd. That's what electronic warfare is doing!
So yes, we can jam some terminals there without any problems.

[knn54]

-Transmit signals without interference over long distances.
Except by cable ...

[mva]

There is no such bolt at the moment. And this is not the first terminal operating on this principle. The first samples, but more primitive in the new army, began to arrive at the beginning of the XNUMXs.

[Flurry]

Wunderwolf again ?? Analogue of the LPI F-35 mode? Nothing is free. Payback for a wide noise-like signal in the form of increased power consumption, requirements for the element base, and communication range. And yes, it works against primitive / outdated electronic warfare systems. More or less modern ones successfully crush it. There is no panacea, alas.

[Wedmak]

provides continuous awareness of millions of threats

It remains only to find them.

[Going]

The next generation communication terminals should begin to enter the troops in 2023. By 2025, it is planned to re-equip the US Army with them completely.

And then it turns out that everything is Chinese.

[NDR-791]

The giblets are definitely from there.

[nobody75]

Some kind of muddy office ... Judging by the information on their website, they are networked and busy with satellite and terrestrial communications. What does it have to do with data transfer protocols and army tablets ?! They don't even have their own developers - everything is outsourced! They were tormented by HRs and it turned out that they basically need electricians, cable men, network administrators and other "black" public.
Sincerely

[Prisoner]

"... new generation communication terminals, resistant to the effects of electronic warfare ..." (c) And there are such? Although ... EW will definitely not reach such a means.

[rocket757]

Come on. And they fought against such a method, and the very conditions of the battle did not always allow it to be used successfully.

[Starover_Z]

Quote: Captive

"... new generation communication terminals, resistant to the effects of electronic warfare ..." (c) And there are such? Although ... EW will definitely not reach such a means.

Are they still learning the flag alphabet? Well, only aerosol will go against it, electronic warfare at such frequencies is powerless!

[NDR-791]

Quote: Captive

And there are such? Although ... EW will definitely not reach such a means.

A couple of years ago it was infa that the Americans of their warriors again began to teach topography and paper maps. Like the matter is in the vulnerability of the ZhPS, etc. We have not sunk to complete electronic insanity. And to the liaison too. Slippers are taught only on the way. Interference, you say?

[dauria]

We have not sunk to complete electronic insanity.

The element base does not allow "to sink". And grandfather's production technologies. And if we add spatial selection of directional antennas to the signal spread over the spectrum with correlation selection (and this is quite realistic now according to the known coordinates of the subscribers), plus selection of jumping polarization and ranges, then suppressing such a connection is not an easy task.
After all, even having a pair of "pins" and a phase shifter, you can create a "zero" diagram in the direction of the interference source.

[ProkletyiPirat]

To what has been said dauria should also add archiving (compression) by the database, by time, by data type, by benchmarks, all this is at a higher OSI level.

[t-12]

Then they will "jam communications" with conventional guided bombs. A dozen kilograms of explosives - and there is no radio station.

[Korax71]

always taught. the same battalion-level snipers in the ILC have a certification exam, where they must go along the route with a map and a compass, without zhps and other gadgets.

[rocket757]

New generation communication terminals are being developed for the US Army, resistant to the effects of electronic warfare

As usual, methods of counteraction will be sought against methods of influence, and so on in a circle.
If you remember ... there was opposition even against pigeon mail, as well as against any other methods.

[rotmistr60]

will be used for planning and execution missions.

You listen to American pompous spoken language for your own people and sometimes feel sick. Continuous deals, missions, democracies, saving their own asses ... And in the end, the "mission" as usual will turn out to be impracticable. In addition to terminals, they both used personal mobile phones, and will even use them to submit SOS.

[Dmitry Vladimirovich]

All one thing - the coils of the telephone cable in the third world war will have to carry (well, or fiber-optic lines).

[Anton686]

signals without interference over long distances

Vague wording. Large - it's interesting how many km? Maybe they have invented something new in science - but if we now take and compare 2 wearable radio stations: a fresh digital motorola with the DMR protocol and an old analog model of any model with the most "far-reaching" frequencies of 400-470 MHz, then the maximum range in conditions, for example , forests with not very rugged terrain will have an analog old walkie-talkie in an area of ​​6 km. Those. the digital signal does not add range per se. Here we are talking more about a network of basic repeaters, or satellite repeaters.
Still wondering - what kind of battery is designed to work in 7 years? If the communication equipment consumes (well, let's imagine roughly) an average of 12V 1 amp per hour, then the battery capacity should be 24A per day, 720A per month, 8640A per year, and 7A / h at 60480 years.
To understand - the battery 3S li-pol 5A / h weighs 400g - and if you count on the capacity above, it is 4838kg - 5 tons !!

[minus]

If you take at least an old, at least a new radio station with a range of 400-470 MHz for a forest, then the result will be equally disgusting ... Because this range is definitely * short-lived * in this case, and for a forest, frequencies are needed much lower, where the losses will be lower)) )) dmr has of course certain advantages in terms of creating communication networks, eliminating mutual interference between different groups of subscribers, creating closed channels and many other advantages. At the same time, simple analog ones can surpass modern ones due to the characteristics of the transceiver path - the level of intrinsic noise, dynamic ranges for blocking, intermodulation and a bunch of other parameters ... And about 7 years, this is the battery life, during which its parameters do not go beyond the established ... But does not characterize its capacity in any way))))

[Anton686]

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7 years is the battery life

The casket just opened :) For me, the "battery" is strongly associated with a non-rechargeable power source.

Quote: Minus

for the forest, frequencies are needed much lower

I also thought so before - avoiding obstacles, looking beyond the horizon.
But from practice - VHF in range is 1/3 less, LB is also less, and there is nothing to say about SV. The compactness of the antenna, the increase in the noise level .. Then the wearables are over, but if you install vx1210 on a machine with a pin, the range down to 1 MHz is also not great. From practice, significant advances in communication range (within a radius of 100-150 km) can be achieved with a kV anti-aircraft radiation antenna - but not with a car pin bent to the side of the road, but with a full-size one, suspended at a decent height. But also not a megastable connection.

[AAC]

this is apparently enough charge-discharge cycles for 7 years

[gridasov]

There are several methods. If in the signal parameters or Email. to introduce another magnetic pulse, at least, then it will be very problematic to influence it. The impact is carried out only on the signal identical in parameters. This is if in the aspects of energy interactions. And then it will be difficult even to determine the energy communication channel. All pulse generators are the same now. So now they are playing ping-pong