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Harris Provides DoD Customer With First Falcon III Wideband Team Radios

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

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Harris [HRS] Oct. 2 said it has provided an unnamed Defense Department customer with the first production units of its Falcon III® RF-330E-TR wideband team radio, the only independently developed and fully compliant solution for the DoD Rifleman Radio program. Designed with the dismounted warfighter in mind, the RF-330E-TR is smaller and lighter than existing wideband handheld radios yet provides superior battery life and transmission range, the company said in a statement. The radio quickly connects warfighters operating on the…

Congress

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