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Full Motion Video Mission Modules (FMV-MM)

The Thales FMVR-MM is the smallest analog/digital video data link receiver available today.

Thales recognizes that users currently carry multiple radios to maintain access to legacy narrow-
band waveforms and wideband Full Motion Video (FMV) downlinks from assets such as
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This increases the burden of the war ghter who is required to
carry more and more equipment to e ectively accomplish their mission. For any given piece of
tactical communications equipment, the battery alone represents a signi cant portion of the
weight and volume of the equipment. The size of the equipment is also driven by the user inter-
face, including the display, buttons, knobs, switches and interface connectors. This approach
replaces two radios, allowing users to carry only one integrated radio for their combat nets and
UAV video downlink.

Over 200,000 Thales AN/PRC-148 variants have been elded with all U.S. services and many
coalition partners. To provide a means for the operators to extend the capability of their inven-
tory of elded radios, an approach was developed that provides mission-speci c extended
capability to the user. Our mission module design eliminates a separate battery, display, and
keypad. This design directly alleviates the burden to the user by combining multiple pieces of
communications equipment into a smaller and lighter package. The mission module concept
integrates the eld-proven AN/PRC-148 JEM handheld radios and eld proven Full Motion
Video Receivers (FMVR) into an FMVR Mission Module (MM) form factor and combines them
into a single device, thus reducing the size and weight burden of the war ghter.

As an "add-on" module, FMVR MMs eliminate the need to introduce a separate and dedicated
FMV ground terminal receiver. This dramatically reduces the lifecycle cost of logistics and train-
ing support by using existing supply management and repair depots.

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