New tactical radio systems in Finland

This article describes the developments in the field of emerging new military radio systems to be deployed in Finland, Finnish software radio programme is the tool to deploy these new systems. The demonstrator platform, that is being build, is a software defined radio wherein the developed wideband applications can be demonstrated. The systems that will be deployed on the demonstrator platform - tactical radio communication system (TRCS) and national tactical positioning system (NTPS) - are introduced in this paper. Brief introduction of the adaptive antenna system to be applied in the demonstrator is also given