[MilCom] MilCom Digest, Vol 57, Issue 7 --- MIDS

[JohnFB]

FWIW .... 

A-10 radio upgrades limited to deployed aircraft

10/12/2006 - LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (ACCNS) -- Two hundred and ninety four of the Air Force's 356 A-10's will go without radio upgrades critical to their role in Iraq and Afghanistan because Air Combat Command, the lead funding agency, is short funds. 

Approximately $60 million is needed to install and upgrade the AN/ARC-210 digital radios in the A-10 to ensure it continues to provide immediate, responsive and persistent attack in direct support of friendly forces. 

http://www.acc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123028880



JohnFB 
Franklin Co. - Western Massachusetts - USA


--- On Wed, 1/7/09, RICHARD L. KRAMER <N3VMY at prodigy.net> wrote:

> From: RICHARD L. KRAMER <N3VMY at prodigy.net>
> Subject: Re: [MilCom] MilCom Digest, Vol 57, Issue 7 ---   MIDS
> To: mcke1orio at verizon.net, milcom at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 1:56 AM
> John; In my Jane's 92/93 military communications book
> there is a MIDS (Multi-function Distribution System) which
> is a secure, jam resistant tactical data link for NATO
> forces and France using freq. hopping radioelectric spectral
> analysis, error detection and correction codes, and the Link
> 16 message format. It's designed to provide
> multi-service  voice and data transmission at up to 238
> Kbits/s. The MIDS will continually gather different types of
> data from all terminals in the system then transmit them
> selectively or systematically to other network users. The
> messages are received and stored by all the receiver
> terminals on the ground or in the air and are then accessed
> as and when the users need them. MIDS will comply with
> NATO's STANAG 4175 and 5516 standards. Aircraft involved
> at this time, as of 1989, were the European fighter a/c,
> French Rafale, and the US F/A18 and F-16 a/c.
> I would imagine by this time the A10's as well as other
> a/c could be using this system also.
> 
> Rich - Reading, PA
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John McKenna 
>   To: milcom at mailman.qth.net 
>   Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:22 AM
>   Subject: Re: [MilCom] MilCom Digest, Vol 57, Issue 7 ---
> MIDS
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Tactical_Radio_System
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> Message: 9Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:48:00 -0500From:
> "Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT"
> <kf4lmt at comcast.net>Subject: [MilCom] A-10 RadiosTo:
> "MilCom" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>Message-ID:
> <0A003FF45925446281B7DB97AC8CE02C at emachine61b2a0>Content-Type:
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> charset="iso-8859-1";	reply-type=originalIs anyone
> familiar with the A-10 radio systems?  Today, I have heard
> two 23rd FG flights from Moody AFB use UHF for their
> operating area frequency and air-to-air frequency.  One
> flight made reference to a MID (MIDS?) radio, but I
> haven't been able to google much describing that radio. 
> For whatit's worth the
>  two UHF a2a frequencies are 242.140 and 275.650.Anyway, it
> seems now that we'll have to search VHF and UHF for A-10
> air-to-air frequencies going forward.Mac McCormick III,
> KF4LMTSavannah,
> GAhttp://kf4lmt.blogspot.com/http://home.comcast.net/~kf4lmt/
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