ARmy Rumour SErvice

**still staggin** · 25-06-2012, 18:12

i thought we had a frequency hopping radio called cougar in the 80's? or am i wrong, and old.

**Alamo** · 25-06-2012, 19:18

Originally Posted by still staggin

i thought we had a frequency hopping radio called cougar in the 80's? or am i wrong, and old.

We had Cougar in NI. Don't know if it was frequency hopping but it was IIRC, the only secure hand-held system outside of SF.

**Dygbi** · 25-06-2012, 19:23

We used the Racal Jaguar in the Berlin Inf Bde in the mid 80s. Used for the Allied Staff comms but we were not allowed to use the freq hopping as we lived next door to the rooskies.

**still staggin** · 25-06-2012, 19:32

Originally Posted by Alamo

We had Cougar in NI. Don't know if it was frequency hopping but it was IIRC, the only secure hand-held system outside of SF.

Thats what i was thinking of, remembered it from N.I. ta for that.

**timebandit** · 26-06-2012, 00:57

Originally Posted by Alamo

We had Cougar in NI. Don't know if it was frequency hopping but it was IIRC, the only secure hand-held system outside of SF.

Cougar was not freq hopping but a damn good but of kit available in UHF and VHF freq ranges.

Munch Me

**Cluster** · 26-06-2012, 20:01

Originally Posted by JT0475

Esteemed members of the Corps. I having a senior moment, or was there a replacement system mooted for Clansman called Archer?
If there was, what were the changes compared to Clansman? For some reason frequency hopping springs to mind.

There was also an earlier project mooted called TARGE (bonus points available to those spotting the relevance of the name), which was looking at giving greater protection to CLANSMAN. Part of it involved looking at FH radios, hence some of the (commercially available) Racal Jaguars were bought.