INTEGRATED C4I ANTENNA SYSTEMS FOR TACTICAL AND COMBAT VEHICLES

Antennas are critical to providing digital connectivity to our warfighters. Military mobile networks are much more constrained in operation compared to commercial wireless networks. Military vehicles are limited in size, and must support a large number of different radios. Challenges to both the network and the mobile vehicles require antennas to perform to higher standards. Antenna performance tradeoffs are presented, along with a description of antenna integration methods and emerging technologies to solve integration challenges.