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Airbus Partners With Spectra For Tactical Radio Service

Monday, March 30th, 2015

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Airbus Partners With Spectra For Tactical Radio Service

Airbus is partnering with the Spectra Group Ltd. to provide tactical radio extension service, Airbus said on Monday.The service is aimed at providing global government users of tactical radios the ability to extend their communications reach beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) using commercial communications satellites (satcom). The service is designed to augment Airbus’ existing UHF radio product by combining Inmarsat’s L-TAC service, commercial satcom (L-band), and Spectra’s SlingShot.The SlingShit is a small, lightweight device compatible with existing tactical radio hardware to extend voice…

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