Spectra Group has been awarded a €13 million contract by a NATO ally for Comtech’s Mobile Transportable Transmission System (MTTS) Troposcatter terminals, including a comprehensive spares and support package.
The agreement reflects growing NATO demand for resilient Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) communications capable of operating independently of satellite infrastructure in contested and congested environments. Spectra Group, which specializes in secure and resilient communications for denied and contested environments, acquired global distribution rights for Comtech’s Troposcatter Family of Systems in 2024, excluding the United States, Canada, and Mexico, which remain under Comtech management.
The procurement covers the larger and more powerful MTTS within Comtech’s Troposcatter Family of Systems. The system is designed to deliver assured, high-capacity communications links over ranges in excess of 250 km, depending on terrain and environmental conditions.
Its performance can bridge significant geographic barriers within national borders, providing secure strategic communications between dispersed locations where required. Tropospheric scatter technology uses the troposphere, up to about 13 km altitude, to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency communications independent of satellites and resilient in GPS/GNSS-denied environments. This technology is designed for use in peer-on-peer conflict and Multi-Domain Integration operations.
The modular, transit case-based Comtech MTTS system is mobile, flexible, and rapidly deployable when high power of 500 W is required, delivering bandwidths of up to 210 Mbps in dual-stream mode, an operating mode used across the Troposcatter Family of Systems. Unlike geostationary satellites, troposcatter communications can also operate effectively in polar regions. The system’s directional, low-power, and complex waveform characteristics make it difficult to detect and resistant to electronic warfare interference.
Michael Davies, Business Development Manager at Spectra Group, commented, “The Troposcatter Family of Systems offers a wide range of capabilities to meet the strategic communication needs of NATO nations, from the highly mobile man-portable COMET, that can also be used in conjunction with the Troposcatter On The Move (TOTM) antenna for littoral manoeuvre, to our most powerful MTTS, which this NATO MOD has selected to meet its unique geographic and operational requirements.
“MTTS delivers the secure, robust and mobile, high-data-capacity command communications infrastructure they require. With other NATO partners already fielding Troposcatter systems, MTTS represents an ideal solution for assured connectivity, interoperability and resilience in demanding environments.”
Daniel Gizinski, President of Comtech’s Satellite and Space Communications Segment, added, “Our partnership with Spectra Group continues to be instrumental in delivering Comtech’s next-generation Troposcatter solutions to allied Ministries of Defence around the world. The selection of the MTTS system by this NATO nation highlights the growing demand for resilient, high-capacity, and rapidly deployable communications infrastructure – ensuring secure, long-range connectivity in some of today’s most complex and contested operational environments.”
