By Gemma Simpson, 14 June 2007 16:42
Although the geography of the field is not realistic – camps are usually being housed further apart and over more difficult terrain – Gavin Saunders, major with the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, said the trials have "no smoke and mirrors" and the communications set-up is as it would be on a battlefield.
A typical connection speed on the battlefield would be roughly 2Mbps.
Saunders said: "We make people work in the tents so they get an idea of working in the field." Pictured is a satellite dish near one of the tents.
Photo credit: Gemma Simpson
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1. Richard
Thanks for covering this:
I'm glad that MoD allowed even these few photos.
A couple of quibbles:
Photo 2 looks like a microwave antenna for point-to-point terrestrial communications, rather than a 'satellite dish.'
The Skynet 5 satellite communications system will cost considerably more than 2Bn Pounds (think almost double), over the lifetime of this PFI project.
Most of our armed forces, including those serving in Iraq & Afghanistan are still struggling with obsolete, insecure, unreliable communications equipment which date from the 1960s!