Press Release

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                COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPLETES ACQUISITIION
                       OF RF MICROWAVE AMPLIFIER BUSINESS

MELVILLE, NY May 1, 2001 - Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)
announced today the completion of the acquisition of the commercial satellite,
medical and government RF microwave amplifier product line of MPD Technologies,
Inc., for $11 million in cash, subject to post closing adjustments.

The acquisition is being accounted for as a purchase and is expected to be
accretive to earnings in fiscal year 2002. Ten million dollars of the purchase
price was supplied through institutional secured borrowings bearing interest at
8.5% due in 2005, and the balance from internal Company funds.

The acquired product line, will be combined with the Comtech PST Corp.
subsidiary in Melville, New York, and will enhance Comtech's RF Microwave
Amplifier segment product offerings and market presence, specifically in the
satellite and medical areas.

Fred Kornberg, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comtech
Telecommunications, said, "This product line acquisition is a natural extension
of our RF Microwave Amplifier business. Combining complementary capabilities and
product lines gives our Comtech PST subsidiary a strong platform from which to
bring innovative products to the RF Microwave Amplifiers market."

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (www.comtechtel.com) is an innovative player in
the domestic and global high-technology markets. Through its operating units,
Comtech pursues opportunities in three interrelated market segments:
telecommunications transmission, RF microwave amplifiers, and mobile data
communications services. In each of these segments, growth is driven by
increasing demand for telecommunications infrastructure and network and
messaging services. The company's specialties include the design and manufacture
of advanced products and networks used for transmission of voice, data and video
using satellite, over-the-horizon microwave, terrestrial line of sight and other
wireless communications systems. More than 275 distinct Comtech products are in
service in more than 100 countries.



Certain of the statements contained herein included but not limited to,
information relating to the future performance and financial condition of the
Company, the plans and objectives of the Company's management, and the Company's
assumptions regarding such performance and plans are forward-looking in nature
and involve certain significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results could
differ materially from such forward-looking information. Included among the
factors which might cause such results to differ are: the satisfaction of
conditions to the closing of the foregoing transaction; the Company's ability to
successfully integrate the business being acquired; the Company's ability to
keep pace with rapid technological changes; our backlog being subject to
customer cancellation or modification; our sales to the U. S. Government being
subject to funding, deployment and other risks; our fixed price contracts being
subject to risk; the highly competitive nature of our markets; our dependence on
component availability, subcontractor availability and performance by key
suppliers; our dependence on international sales; our mobile data communications
business being in a developmental stage. Additionally, these forward-looking
statements are qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements
contained the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

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