US Army's T2C2 moves into full-rate production

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US Army's T2C2 moves into full-rate production
By: Geoff Fein, Washington, DC - Jane's Defence Weekly - 19 January 2018
RE: http://www.janes.com/article/77208/u...ate-production

Key Points

- The army can now begin buying the inflatable satellite system
- The army intends to field T2C2 to 15 operational elements

The US Army's Transportable Tactical Command Communications (T2C2), which provides satellite capability to small units operating in areas without network infrastructure, has achieved its full-rate production decision, enabling the army to begin procuring and fielding the expeditionary inflatable satellite system.

The army announced the decision in January and the service will field two air-droppable variants of T2C2 – the AN/TSC-232 Lite variant, which operates in X-band, is manportable, and uses Cubic's GATR 1.2 m satellite terminal. It can be rapidly setup to provide satellite communications (SATCOM) in remote locations.