F-18C will complete the single channel ground and airborne radio system (SINCGARS)？

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To fight together and win on the modern battlefield, tactical air, land, and sea forces need an effective command, control, and communications (C3) system. Technological improvements in enemy jamming and electronic collection and exploitation seriously challenge the effectiveness of friendly tactical communications. With the development and fielding of SINCGARS-operative radios, the capabilities of sophisticated, complex enemy jammers have to a great extent been neutralized.

The worldwide operational need for a very high frequency-frequency modulation (VHF-FM) radio resistant to electronic attack (EA) is mandated by the requirement that Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Combat Air Forces be capable of performing multiservice air, land, and sea operations in any theater. Such a capability is necessary to ensure successful combat operations. SINCGARS radios, with their single-channel and jam resistant features, provide interoperable communications between surface and airborne command and control assets.

SINCGARS is replacing most of the existing tactical VHF-FM radios in the Department of Defense (DOD) inventory.

This publication standardizes procedures for the multiservice operation of SINCGARS. It addresses both physical and electronic interservice transfer of SINCGARS electronic protection

(EP) information and communications security (COMSEC) keys necessary for jam resistant and secure operations. This publication, developed in conjunction with the contractors of the SINCGARS equipment, will enhance equipment and procedural interoperability.

This publication provides the approved TRADOC, MCCDC, Navy and Combat Air Forces multiservice SINCGARS communication procedures. It also provides procedures to effect interservice communications and enhance friendly operations in an electronic warfare (EW)

environment.

 

For airborne users, the Navy will use the AN/ARC-210 radio and an MS-DOS PC or Tactical Air Mission Planning System (TAMPS) that will run the ARC-210 Fill Program (AFP). Navy shipboard SINCGARS will use the Army version of the SINCGARS has always existed in the game, but we can't really use them. radio and will also use RBECS. AFP allows the operator tocreate ARC-210 load sets by entering single channel data, entering Have Quick data, and importing SINCGARS data in the form of an RBECS loadset files.

 

SINCGARS has always existed in the game, but we can't really use them.

 

Will f-18c change this situation? This allows data to be passed through SINCGARS even if there is no VMF.

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