Thales takes new HF communications system from ship to shore
Four types of HF XL will be available for lands operations including the 1kW (left) and 400W (right) models show above. (Image: Thales)
The HF XL family was unveiled at last month’s Eurosatory 2024 with the company pushing the system’s capability of searching out unjammed channels or channels with the highest data rate available.
Thales has taken its naval HF technology and developed it for base and command operations under a family dubbed HF XL. Next year, the company plans to introduce smaller versions of the system for vehicle and soldier applications in 2025.
The larger headquarters HF XL is 1kW and the smaller command post has been described as 400W, while the future vehicle system is 125W and the soldier-borne version is 40w. Plans have been underway to extend HF XL technology into the aero and infrastructure domains.
The new HF radios use technology that is already deployed aboard several types of French warships including
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