C-130 aircraft-mounted MIMO radio communications for Special Operations forces introduced by Silvus and R4
LOS ANGELES – Silvus Technologies Inc. in Los Angeles and R4 Integration Inc. in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., are working together to introduce the Roll On/Roll Off (RO/RO) Mobile Network-MIMO airborne communications hatch-mount kit for military C-130 special forces aircraft.
The RO/RO Mobile Network-MIMO airborne communications hatch-mount kit is an en-route communications system for U.S. Special Operations warfighters that requires no modification to the aircraft and can be re-deployed quickly from one aircraft to another depending on the mission.
At the heart of the system is the Silvus StreamCaster 4400 enhanced mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) radio. With 20 Watts of transmit power, the system can establish air-to-air and air-to-ground datalinks at distances beyond 100 miles.
The RO/RO Mobile Network-MIMO Airborne Communications system offers 80 Watts of effective transmit power because of a six-decibel signal boost from Silvus proprietary Transmit Eigen Beamforming technology.
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The system supports dual S and C radio communications bands without swapping hardware and includes Spectrum Dominance waveform enhancements to provide users with interference avoidance, interference cancellation, spectrum analysis, and LPI/LPD capabilities.
R4 has developed the Silvus SC4400E MANET radio into an ultra lightweight RO/RO C-130 solution that has enabled the companies to increase the warfighter's communications-on-the-move capability, says John Parsley, president of R4 Integration.
For more information contact Silvus Technologies online at https://silvustechnologies.com, or R4 Integration at https://r4-integration.com.
