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BAE Systems’ Phoenix Radios Successful In Tactical Networking At Army Exercise

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

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BAE Systems yesterday said its Phoenix-2C radios successfully provided tactical networking capabilities during recent Army exercises, allowing soldiers to communicate more than 20 kilometers, double the mid-tier network requirement. Fully interoperable with other Joint Tactical Radio Systems currently in use, the Phoenix radios were tested earlier this month at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. The exercises were designed to begin assessing candidate capabilities for mid-tier networking radios (MTNR) and were part of an excursion linked to Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 13.1. The…

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