What antenna does the military use?

Military Communications (MILCOM) Antennas

The military uses both single-band high-performance and versatile multi-band antennas for military communications (MILCOM). Some common types of military antennas and their applications include:

1. Radar antennas, which are essential in monitoring air traffic.
2. Wideband antennas, which are used to acquire information across a large spectrum of frequencies.
3. Broadband military antennas, covering frequency bands as great as 30MHz-10GHz.
4. Antennas for handheld radios, manpack, vehicles, and special applications that are used for surveillance, telemetry, remote deployments.
5. Discone, dipole, and log periodic antennas as well as monopoles, stacked dipoles, Yagi antennas, etc.

Summarily

The military uses both single-band high-performance and versatile multi-band antennas.

Strategically

It is important to use antennas that a US Company designs, fabricates, and distributes. That is why Alpha Antenna is owned by an American whose operations are all carried out on American soil.

Selection

A mission driven military antenna has many decision variables. Some of the vectors used for making that decision include Frequency, Power Ratings, voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), plus Patterns & Polarization.

Examples

Some examples of these base, portable, or mobile installations can be seen HERE and below.

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