|
VINSON occurs as personal of voice encoding hardware utilized by U.S. & allied military machine & law enforcement, according to a SAVILLE encryption algorithm and 16 kbit/s CVSD audio compression. It replaces a Vietnam War-era NESTOR (KY-8/28/38) family.
These equipment provide Tactical Secure voice on UHF and VHF Line of sight (LOS) communication systems. These terminals come Unclassified Controlled Crytographic Items (CCI) when atonal & classified to the keymat of the key when running assure.
VINSON gear include:
KY-57
KY-58
KY-68
KY-99a (MINTERM)
KY-100 (AIRTERM)
KYV-2
FASCINATOR
VINSON is embedded into several modern military radios, like SINCGARS. Numbers of multi-algorithm COMSEC modules are likewise backwards-compatible by having VINSON.
| 