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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Announces COMET - The World’s Smallest Over-The-Horizon Microwave Terminal and Receives Initial Order for the U.S. Special Operations Command
MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- June 2, 2020--Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today, that during its third quarter of fiscal
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[{"type":"text","content":" MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nJune 2, 2020--Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today, that during its third quarter of fiscal 2020, its Orlando, Florida-based subsidiary, Comtech Systems, Inc., which is part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment, has introduced the Comtech COMET, the world’s smallest over-the-horizon (“OTH”) microwave troposcatter terminal. In connection with the introduction, Comtech received an initial contract award for production terminals from ADS, Inc. to be used by a U.S. Military end-customer.\n\n\nCOMET, which stands for Compact Over-the-horizon Mobile Expeditionary Terminal, is the world’s first rapidly deployable, low power, airline checkable, OTH microwave troposcatter terminal. Troposcatter technology have long been associated with large antennas and high-power amplifiers that require kilowatts of prime power and large trucks to transport them to the field. The COMET has fundamentally changed this paradigm.\n\n\nFred Kornberg, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. stated, “We are extremely pleased by this first order of the Comtech COMET, for use by U.S. SOCOM and we expect significant orders in the future from both U.S. military and international customers. This product introduction, which has been years in the making, is a testament to our engineering prowess and we believe the Comtech COMET will quickly become a much-needed communications tool for today’s warfighter.”\n\n\nThe Comtech COMET is a medium range (up to 60 km), high bandwidth (up to 210Mb/s), communications terminal that fills a void in distances that have long been desired by tactical communications planners. It uniquely addresses the SOCOM community’s concern of low probability of intercept and low probability of detection (“LPI/LPD”), while providing high reliability, mission essential communications. The key attributes of the Comtech COMET are:\n\n\n\nEasily transported in two airline checkable cases.\n\n\nRapidly setup by one person in less than 15 minutes.\n\n\nOperates in the 4.4 to 5.0 GHz. Band.\n\n\nExtremely low prime power requirements (\n\nHighly directional Antenna and Low Transmit Power satisfying Low Probability of Intercept (“LPI”) and Low Probability of Detect (“LPD”) requirements.\n\n\nOperates on the ground with a minimal equipment foo...