Dr. Thomas Withington
Editor, Defence commentator, journalist, military historian.
September Radio Roundup
Viasat Unveils SWH
In late July Viasat announced the introduction of its Secure Wireless Hub (SWH). A company press release revealed that the SWH is...
MUOS Earns its Wings
Communications and networking for US Army airborne forces has taken a step forward following trials of a new architecture that could reduce the hardware...
Weather Forecasts
The United Kingdom is moving ever closer to the introduction of its Skynet-6A military communications satellite with ongoing propagation surveys to support the new...
September Spectrum SitRep
Play your cards right
Concurrent Technologies has launched its new TR MDx/6sd plug-in card which the company says is developed in alignment with SOSA (Sensor...
The Silent Hangar
The United Kingdom will soon receive a new, large anechoic chamber to help evaluate and improve military aircraft electromagnetic discretion and protection.
News emerged in...
Murmurs of Murmansk
The Islamic Republic of Iran has received GT-01 Murmansk-BN communications jamming systems from Russia.
Media reports in early August disclosed that Russia has delivered its...
Sopka-2 Radar Update
In March 2023 we published an article about Russia’s 12A6 Sopka-2 ground-based air surveillance radar. Since the article’s publication, new information has come to...
Signal Shielding
Work continues in rolling out the resilient M-Code capability across the US Global Positioning Satellite constellation.
The United States Space Systems Command (SSC) Military Communications...
5G in a Box
The United States Air Force’s (USAF’s) Global Strike Command is deepening its levels of connectivity with the acquisition of transportable 5G cellular communications networks.
Fifth...
Command Post Protection
The US Army is digesting lessons learned from the ongoing war in Ukraine concerning command post survivability, lessons which have implications for tactical communications...
