Collins Aerospace's Military Communications Legacy Continues With ARC-210 Airborne Radio

TR_123456 · Apr 12, 2021

50,000 delivered and still going strong

Most widely fielded tactical airborne radio in the world, operating on more than 200 platform variants worldwide in over 50 countries

Newest version of radio brings the latest encryption and anti-jam technologies to the warfighter

Collins Aerospace recently celebrated a monumental milestone with the delivery of the 50,000th ARC-210 software-defined airborne radio to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Air Combat Electronics (PMA-209), a key customer of the program since it began in 1990.
The delivery of the 50,000th radio continues a 30+ year relationship between Collins Aerospace and the U.S. Navy on the ARC-210 program — a model for government-industry teaming. This radio, which has continued to evolve with the needs of the Navy, is standard for multi-band, multi-mode communications and plays a key role in allowing joint and coalition forces to communicate in various theaters of operations worldwide.
The Collins Aerospace ARC-210 radio was the first tactical airborne radio to embed encryption and modem operation to support satellite communications in tactical aircraft. The ARC-210 radios have transmitted millions of critical messages in the air and at sea, mission after mission. Now available in its sixth iteration, the ARC-210 RT-2036 brings the latest encryption and anti-jam technologies, as well as integrating next-generation networking waveforms that include the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) and Second Generation Anti-jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO (SATURN).