A California company better known for building antennas that connect aircraft to satellites has quietly entered one of the most competitive markets in defense — and at the U.S. Army's recent Cross Domain Fires Concept Focused Warfighting Experiment, its mobile

VICTS stands for Variable Inclination Continuous Transverse Stub, a steerable mechanical phased array antenna that ThinKom developed and patented for the satellite communications market. Where most phased arrays steer their beam electronically — shifting the signal’s phase across an array of fixed elements — VICTS steers mechanically, which allows it to handle significantly higher peak power without the thermal and efficiency penalties that electronically scanned arrays suffer at extreme power levels.