US Army Patriot systems transition into digital communications

 Soldiers, assigned to the 35th Air Defense Artillery, or ADA, Brigade, were armed with a new communications capability this week after months of integration with U.S. Army Patriot missile systems across the Korean peninsula.

Four Secure Internet Protocol Router/Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Points, or SNAPs, and 10 Tactical Transportable Troposcatter, or TROPO, systems were organically assigned to Patriot batteries within 35th ADA Brigade. This marks the first time these digital communications systems have been organically assigned to units within the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Regiment outside of Central Command and combat operations.

http://www.army.mil/article/157118/US_Army_Patriot_systems_transition_into_digital_communications/