SINCGARS

SINCGARS ( Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System ) is a family of military radios of the land mobile service, the most frequently used within the NATO forces.

Description

The SINCGARS standard was developed after the Vietnam War in the 1980s to military units by the enemy to continue providing communication services even under the influence of electronic countermeasures. In addition, the interception of the call should be most effectively prevented. This is on the one hand by means of frequency hopping spread spectrum and the other obtained by encryption. SINCGARS radios are modular and have a wide variety of dimensions and skills. Only the following specifications are mandatory for each device:

• Frequency band: 30 to 87.975 MHz ( VHF )
• Channel bandwidth: 25 kHz
• Frequency jumps: 100 per second

This relatively free borders have led to a large variety of options that. Lightweight systems for the soldier on foot, to large and powerful devices for use in vehicles and aircraft Besides the usual radio messages all current systems dominate also functions for digital data transmission, the data rate moves mostly in the kilobit range. The codes for the encryption module can be entered with most devices either via a key card or a numeric keypad. It was built more than half a million units, so that distribution is very high especially among the NATO forces and so the communication between the different forces of the Member States easier.

Frequency availability

Devices of the SINCGARS family have peace and training company on German territory only limited frequency availability, since 30 to 87.975 MHz a variety of civilian radio applications operating in the VHF frequency band, compared to the military users enjoy primary status.