Radio Comms? Re: [MilCom] Seals in Afghanistan

[Ken]

Hello Ron & the group:

Thank you!!!!  Very interesting article on current operations.  In reading 
the email he does mention about radio communications.  Peaking my interest 
in US Special forces comms, the following url's may be of interest to the 
group:

http://www.specialoperations.com/Equipment/SOF/C4I/Default.htm  (index for 
further searches), Some finds:

http://www.harris.com/view_pressrelease.asp?act=lookup&pr_id=172 
Mult-Mission, Multi Band Radio
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/jtrs_cluster2.htm 
Multi Band, Intra-Inter Team Radio
http://www.intlogsys.com/index.php/article/articleprint/55/-1/9/ 2nd article
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/matt.htm  Tactical Terminal

Now another interesting aspect would be what the Talibans are using for 
radio comms.  I'd assume that
much of the Russian radio gear has pretty much hit the end of its' life 
cycle, so are they using off the
shelf commercial equipment such as FRS radios (US & Briitsh), Amateur 
Radios, or some other
off the shelf units (e.g. Citizen Band Radio???).  I'd guess that there 
would be some sort of
radio sensor packages now being deployed on these "preditors" UAV's
(see some background at: 
http://www.aerosonde.com/downloads/Aerosonde_DSTO_EW.pdf  &
http://www.aiaa.org/aerospace/images/articleimages/pdf/eyejune04.pdf &
http://www.notbored.org/UAV.html &
http://www.isrjournal.com/story.php?F=327982

Also I would think that in those mountain areas, that even FRS radios would 
work very well
(at least from mountain to valley, mountain to mountain for the Taliban... 
I'd also assume that the US Special Ops
folks were primarily using Satellite comms back to their operations control 
center vs any LMR
type radio........

Thanks again!!!

Ken

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Subject: [MilCom] Seals in Afghanistan


All,

Thought some of you might like to read the true story of what happened to
the Navy Seals in Afghanistan---from someone on the scene. It's a little 
long
but worth the read.
 snip..snip..
...... The team set up a 360 degree defense and  called in Hornet Nest 
(troops in contact) back to
their operational base.   The command and control headquarters for U.S. 
Forces in
Afghanistan moved a  Predator unmanned drone over the battle location.  The
SEALs were located  by the predator by their locator beacon and the inferred
camera system of the  drone.  The headquarters could see that the TEAM was
encircled by bad guys  and that the enemy was too close to the SEALs to use 
Air
force close air  support.   The Generals look at the screen that  was
giving a live feed of the fire fight, they saw that the SEALs were 
surrounded,
they did not see a way for them to escape, a weather front was  coming, it 
was
dusk but not dark yet and time for the trapped men was running  out......
snip..snip..