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I expect it's the combination of ruggedized maintainable components, maintenance spares and kit, and a lot of rechargeable cells.
by JulianMorrison 9y ago
I expect it's the combination of ruggedized maintainable components, maintenance spares and kit, and a lot of rechargeable cells.
- ryanmarsh 9y agoWhen you remove the batteries, connectors, rugged case and batteries the newer radios really aren't that large. God damn they're heavy though. So glad I wasn't usually carrying the big ones on patrol. We all used smaller iComs for squad level comms.
- secfirstmd 9y agoYeah its mostly the battery that hasn't really reduced much in size over years. Most of the other stuff is the display, antenna etc and general "soldier proofing".
- vvanders 9y agoAmplifiers can be large-ish if you're going over ~20W depending on how much power is going out to the antenna vs thermal dissipation requirements.
- jabl 9y ago.. and if this thing is done with SDR technology (which apparently was the original aim of the program, don't know if they have backtracked since), presumably the DSP's and FPGA's are going to be larger and significantly more power hungry than bespoke ASIC's.