SINCGARS

It simply remained motionless in the sky.

Approximately 30 seconds after the craft appeared, all three, um, SINCGARS radios inside our Humvee began emitting a continuous steady tone.

Our vehicle was equipped with three radios, one for pl- platoon communications, one for battalion, and one for aviation.

Two operated on VHF frequencies, while the third used UHF, and three began producing the same tone simultaneously.

Mm.

But even inside the field artillery, I can't communicate to a Marine Corps HIMARS battery that might be supporting my Army field artillery battalion because they use high frequency radios, we're using SINCGARS.

We have a plan to move to a next generation tactical radio, but because of the gap it was initially intended to fill, the artillery's not prioritized.

So you build ACS as in AFATADS in a cloud that depends on having a new radio, and maybe you can work around and make it work on the SINCGARS, but are you giving yourself the ability to talk further and further away? And displacement, we're learning from Ukraine, is gonna be hugely important.

Where UAVs can always see you, we can't build the tent city that we're used to having for a division TOC or for a BSA.

We have to be distributed.

How do you resource that? When I was a cannon battalion commander, I was resourced to have two retrans systems for our SINCGARS, not three.

So that tethered my battalion TOC close to one of the batteries, and I typically had to tether my TOC near the brigade TOC just because of the amount of interaction we had on the targeting side.