PAKISTAN ARMY TAKES DELIVERY OF NEW PRR

[Gryphon]

Pakistan’s NRTC has told MONCh that it is in the process of delivering its P-25 Very/Ultra High Frequency (V/UHF: 300 megahertz to three gigahertz) Personal Role Radio (PRR) to the Pakistan Army. The radio is equipping the army at the squad/platoon level with an individual transceiver which can be used for small unit communications. In addition, the company disclosed during the DSA 2018 exhibition being held in Kuala Lumpur between 16 April and 19 April that it is equipping Pakistan’s paramilitary organisations with the same materiel, notably the country’s Frontier Corps which protects Pakistan’s borders.

NRTC declined to provide significant details regarding the technical particulars of the P-25, although it is thought that the transceiver, as its name suggests, can carry the APCO-25 public safety waveform. This would allow both army and paramilitary units equipped with the radio to communicate with civilian first responders. This is an important consideration for Pakistan, given that military, paramilitary and civilian agencies are often called upon to respond to terrorist attacks, and to assist during the aftermath of natural disasters. Notably, NRTC also provides upgraded Associated Industries AN/PRC-77 VHF MANPACK tactical radios to the Pakistan Army, and also to the armies of Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

This initiative retrofits the radio’s legacy solid state electronics with a new chassis which includes contemporary digital components, software and encryption. This radio transmits across a waveband of 30MHz to 52.975MHz in low band VHF and 53MHz to 75.975MHz in high band VHF. It carries 1,840 channels with 25 kilohertz of channel spacing.

Thomas Withington
16 April 2018

NRTC is outfitting the Pakistan Army and the country’s paramilitary organisations with P-25 tactical radios, the base station for which is pictured here. (Photo: Thomas Withington)

PAKISTAN ARMY TAKES DELIVERY OF NEW PRR | Mönch Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

 

[Path-Finder]

Pakistan’s NRTC has told MONCh that it is in the process of delivering its P-25 Very/Ultra High Frequency (V/UHF: 300 megahertz to three gigahertz) Personal Role Radio (PRR) to the Pakistan Army. The radio is equipping the army at the squad/platoon level with an individual transceiver which can be used for small unit communications. In addition, the company disclosed during the DSA 2018 exhibition being held in Kuala Lumpur between 16 April and 19 April that it is equipping Pakistan’s paramilitary organisations with the same materiel, notably the country’s Frontier Corps which protects Pakistan’s borders.

NRTC declined to provide significant details regarding the technical particulars of the P-25, although it is thought that the transceiver, as its name suggests, can carry the APCO-25 public safety waveform. This would allow both army and paramilitary units equipped with the radio to communicate with civilian first responders. This is an important consideration for Pakistan, given that military, paramilitary and civilian agencies are often called upon to respond to terrorist attacks, and to assist during the aftermath of natural disasters. Notably, NRTC also provides upgraded Associated Industries AN/PRC-77 VHF MANPACK tactical radios to the Pakistan Army, and also to the armies of Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

This initiative retrofits the radio’s legacy solid state electronics with a new chassis which includes contemporary digital components, software and encryption. This radio transmits across a waveband of 30MHz to 52.975MHz in low band VHF and 53MHz to 75.975MHz in high band VHF. It carries 1,840 channels with 25 kilohertz of channel spacing.

Thomas Withington
16 April 2018

NRTC is outfitting the Pakistan Army and the country’s paramilitary organisations with P-25 tactical radios, the base station for which is pictured here. (Photo: Thomas Withington)

PAKISTAN ARMY TAKES DELIVERY OF NEW PRR | Mönch Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

That means the radio's purchased from the yanks during WOT have been the achilles heel!

 

[denel]

You must be kidding me with this obsolete units...... I am not joking, i worked on better units in 80s than this 3rd rated equipment.

PR-77 are similar of what we produced in 60's/70's. I am really really shocked.

 

[Dreamer.]

You must be kidding me with this obsolete units...... I am not joking, i worked on better units in 80s than this 3rd rated equipment.

PR-77 are similar of what we produced in 60's/70's. I am really really shocked.

Then how could the below be true?

Notably, NRTC also provides upgraded Associated Industries AN/PRC-77 VHF MANPACK tactical radios to the Pakistan Army, and also to the armies of Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

 

[denel]

Then how could the below be true?

Friend, please do some background review on manpacks and where major players are. You will understand what I have said.

This is an area i specialise in. SA is one of the leaders in this technology.

 

[Dreamer.]

Friend, please do some background review on manpacks and where major players are. You will understand what I have said.

This is an area i specialise in. SA is one of the leaders in this technology.

I don't dispute what you said. Just want to know how not one but three armies could go for obsolete equipment? when at least one of them is one where money is no object and always goes for the top of the line stuff.

 

[denel]

I don't dispute what you said. Just want to know how not one but three armies could go for obsolete equipment? when at least one of them is one where money is no object and always goes for the top of the line stuff.

That is also what surprised me on that claim.

 

[New World]

@Quwa @Bilal Khan (Quwa)

janab thori roshni dalye @denel ki baato par..

 

[denel]

@Quwa @Bilal Khan (Quwa)

janab thori roshni dalye @denel ki baato par..

????? dont understand what you are writing.

 

[New World]

????? dont understand what you are writing.

its in urdu.

asking them to talk about things which you have said..

 

[Safriz]

You must be kidding me with this obsolete units...... I am not joking, i worked on better units in 80s than this 3rd rated equipment.

PR-77 are similar of what we produced in 60's/70's. I am really really shocked.

pr-77 are now being used with software upgrades.

 

[Sinnerman108]

Actually if the Signals core cannot still produce their own SDR ( Software defined Radio) they should be fired.,

 

[Signalian]

Actually if the Signals core cannot still produce their own SDR ( Software defined Radio) they should be fired.,

ahem ahem...

Signals Corps comm sets are on a different level of hierarchy than the sets provided throughout the army to a section and squad level, this is due to constraints in costs. Squad level sets were non existent before 2000's, they were deployed in some formations in 2004-5, mainly formations operating in FATA. Now they are to be generalized through out the army.

Don't under-estimate Signals Corps, grant this favor to the enemy

pr-77 are now being used with software upgrades.

Now i wonder who did those software upgrades

 

[Shiji]

Seeing NRTCs equipment, I can assure you that user end would suffer alot.

 

[Signalian]

That means the radio's purchased from the yanks during WOT have been the achilles heel!

They were not dispersed widely to all formations. They were used for basic training also so not all sets could reach the area of action.

I don't dispute what you said. Just want to know how not one but three armies could go for obsolete equipment? when at least one of them is one where money is no object and always goes for the top of the line stuff.

Some technicalities and practicalities that work for some, don't really work for others. Threat level, geography, training doctrine etc all matter when acquiring an equipment.

Would a wheeled Tank of South Africa be suited in Pakistan ? No, but its successful in African plains.

Everybody wants F-22, Aegis etc.....not everyone can afford modern equipment and not every doctrine dictates acquisition of only modern equipment to suit ones needs, constant up-gradation to versions through software patches is possible in communication and IT equipment used in the battlefield.

Similarly, where the threat level exceeds a certain threshold, the best equipment is brought forward.