Serious After BRIEX NATO could be potential enemy UK replace IFF system

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The need new ID Friend Foe system to shoot correctly in future. Their Beckenham guard nearly shot own queen at 3am in Beckenham garden. Queen need to install IFF on crown and wear it all the time to avoid being shot! Huat Ah!


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Leonardo lands £260m deal to fit 'friend or foe' ID systems to British vehicles

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Chinook helicopters will be fitted with the new IFF sytem
Chinook helicopters will be fitted with the new IFF sytem
Alan Tovey
22 JUNE 2017 • 2:49 PM
British jet fighters, helicopters, warships and missile systems will be fitted with advanced identification systems under a major contract awarded to defence group Leonardo’s UK business.

The £260m deal will see them equipped with “identification Friend or Foe” (IFF) systems that allow British forces to quickly work out which ships and planes are hostile and react accordingly.

Called Mode-5 IFF, the encrypted system allows UK forces to work safely together and also with NATO allies, reducing the risk of friendly fire incidents. It also gives commanders a better overview of the battlefield, increasing their effectiveness.

The IFF system will help reduce the prospect of 'friendly fire' incidents
The IFF system will help reduce the prospect of 'friendly fire' incidents CREDIT: MOD
IFF works by sending automated “challenge and response” signals, with equipment on friendly planes and ships able to receive and instantly decode the encrypted challenge message, then send the appropriate response to identify themselves.

The deal - which will see the equipment fitted to more than 350 units including the Navy’s Type 45 destroyers, the RAF’s Sentry airborne radar jets and Typhoons, as well as the Chinook helicopters and the Army’s Starstreak missile vehicles - will support about 150 jobs at Leonardo’s Luton base and plants in the UK.

Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin said: “This contract for battle-winning technology builds on decades of operational experience to keep UK pilots, soldiers and sailors safe on operations.”

“It is yet another example of the jobs and skills-sustaining impact of the Government’s £178bn equipment plan to supply the UK’s armed forces with the best possible kit.”

The work at RAF Marham, where the new Lightning aircraft will be based, includes a hangar to house the new jets and landing pads capable of handling the heat and blast from the F-35s’ engines when they land vertically. Two existing runways and taxiways will also be resurfaced.

An F-35 flies over RAF Marham, where the new jets will be based
An F-35 flies over RAF Marham, where the new jets will be based
The investment at RAF Marham is the final of seven projects worth £250m undertaken to get the air base ready for the arrival of the aircraft in 2018.

The contract has been awarded to a joint venture of Galliford Try and Lagan Construction.

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Queen 'nearly shot' by Buckingham Palace guard during late night stroll

Security personnel mistook Her Majesty as one of several intruders who have gained entry to Buckingham Palace in recent years
Charlotte England Thursday 5 January 2017
The Queen occasionally takes a late-night stroll when suffering from insomnia, but sometimes fails to let her security staff know
The Queen occasionally takes a late-night stroll when suffering from insomnia, but sometimes fails to let her security staff know Getty Images
It is one of the perks of being a member of the archaic hereditary UK monarchy that you have armed guards watching over you at all hours.

But that apparently almost backfired for the Queen when she decided to take a late-night walk around the palace grounds and came close to being shot.

From time to time her majesty is said to struggle to sleep. During a spell of insomnia, the 90-year-old will occasionally put on her coat and go for a short stroll, an ex-guardsman told The Times.


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