Outdated, heavy and won't stop 'friendly fire'... The military's £2.4bn battlefield digital radio system has been slammed by MPs for being late, outdated, too heavy for troops to carry and ineffective ...

BRITISH ARMY RADIOS SUFFER "CATASTROPHIC" FAILURE RATE LONDON, NOV 2 (KUNA) -- THE FAILURE RATE OF BRITISH ARMY RADIOS WAS SO HIGH IN THE RECENT MILITARY EXERCISE IN OMAN THAT ANY ARMOURED UNITS SENT ...

The British Army's £2.4-billion ($4.7-billion) program to replace its aging analog Clansman radios with Bowman digital radios hit a snag last month, when the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee ...

The Army's new Bowman radios are giving the soldiers carrying them radiation burns, according to troops involved in trials of the £1.9 billion system. The radios are also much larger and heavier than ...

The first army brigade scheduled to deploy to Iraq with the military's Pounds 1.9bn battlefield communications system will be forced to go without the new radios in its Challenger tanks and Warrior ...