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14 Apr 2014 10:38 AM

 In Afghanistan, RAF personnel have begun dismantling elements of a comprehensive communications network built up over the past decade. 

A joint team of RAF regular personnel from 90 Signals Unit, reserves and contractors have provided a backbone of information and communications technology skills in Afghanistan since operations began in December 2001. One of the first units deployed, they may also be amongst the last to leave as the UK drawdown in Afghanistan continues and Afghan-led forces take responsibility for security.

Reacher satellite communications equipment has been widely used throughout Afghanistan, and as the number of British forces reduce so too does the need for bandwidth. So personnel are dismantling and repacking the deployable kit. This will enable it to be shipped back to the UK, ready for use somewhere else, on one of the RAF’s C-130 Hercules freighters operated by 904 Expeditionary Air Wing based at Kandahar.

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