Kongsberg’s WM600 UHF radio is designed for vehicular applications. It can provide communications between vehicles, and between vehicles and dismounted troops. The WM600 offers data rates of up to 2.5mbps © Kongsberg
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Much as EID is believed to have commenced delivery of the TWH-104 PRR to the Portuguese Army, Kongsberg is furnishing the militaries of Hungary and Norway with new transceivers. According to Eivind Lyngar, director of marketing and sales for defence communications within Kongsberg’s defence and aerospace division, the firm is currently involved in the delivery of its MV600 and MH600 VHF radios to Hungary and Norway. With quantities of delivery “in their thousands,” states Mr. Lyngar, the firm expects to supply both countries with these radios until orders are completed in 2018. The MV600 and MH600 are both members of the firm’s Multi-Role Radio (MRR) family; with the MH600 designed as a VHF handheld transceiver and the MV600 VHF as a vehicular radio. These radios which also include AES-256 (Advanced Encryption Standard-256); a standard of encryption overseen by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. Mr. Lyngar detailed other programmes involving the company such as the supply of TacLAN VHF radios to Switzerland,
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the United Kingdom (see below) and Finland (see above). The TacLAN family also possess AES-256 encryption and contain three radios; namely the WM600 UHF vehicular radio, the SR600 handheld and the UM600 which can use the same mounting bracket as that employed by the MRR (see above). The deliveries of TacLAN radios to these three countries are expected to continue until 2020, Mr. Lyngar adds.
Beyond the programmes involving the firm mentioned above, Kongsberg introduced a new product towards the end of 2014 in the form of its RL-542A Tactical Radio Link. Providing data rates of up to 100mbps the RL542A has completed “successful field trials in Norway, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific,” Mr. Lyngar told Armada. He added that the first contracts for its procurement are expected by the end of 2015, although the
TrellisWare’s TW-130 WildCat-II radio offers V/UHF communications and can be used in vehicular or manpack applications with up to eight watts of transmit power, and the ability to support up to twelve voice channels © TrellisWare