Tag: SATCOM
High Frequency for SOF
Published in the October/November 2020 issue - Seeking to maintain secure and reliable connectivity, particularly in contested environments, special forces are turning to High...
58% Faster: New SATCOM Connectivity Tech Boosts Streaming Data Speed in Rotorcraft
Excerpted from Cobham’s Connectivity White Paper Series
Out of the Shadows: The Dawn of a New Day for Rotorcraft Connectivity
How a Technology Breakthrough called SB-Helo...
Boeing-built Space Force Satellite Passes Design Review
Boeing and the U.S. Space Force successfully completed the first major engineering design review for the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)-11+ communications satellite.
This successful...
WGS Protection Deepens
The US Air Force’s WGS satellite constellation will be outfitted with new electronic protection measures by 2022.
Boeing is leading the US Air Force’s Mitigation...
Check the Manual
The US armed forces have a new doctrine for joint electronic warfare highlighting the importance of electromagnetic manoeuvre and reflecting recent events.
The signal was...
Armada International Podcast: Operating Satcom Through a Helicopter’s Rotor Disc
Armada International and Asian Military Review Editor-in-Chief Andrew Drwiega talks with Shaun Schaper, Cobham’s engineering specialist, about how an issue called rotor shadowing led Schaper to co-develop a new...
SOF Countercommunications Denial
As the operating environment for special operations forces (SOF) increasingly incorporates missions in anti-access/area denied (A2AD) and command and control denied or degraded environments...
Keeping Constant Cohesion and Awareness
SOF small units must be fed real-time and accurate situation awareness, particularly when operating in anti-access area denied (A2AD) environments.
Describing how command and control...
Space on Budget
Reducing launch and spacecraft costs could enable more countries to affordably develop military communications satellites.
Space Costs & Spendings
Director Ridley Scott’s 1979 science fiction epic...
US Space Force to Present Exclusive Briefing at MilSatCom USA 2020
SMi reports: Clare Grason, Chief, Commercial Satellite Communications Office, US Air Force Space Command, will be attending and speaking at the MilSatCom USA conference...