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Old 5th Dec 2014, 14:39
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Perhaps more importantly, Air Cdre Beach stated (bold):

The August-September 2013 Syria crisis saw the RAF Typhoon force integrating its operation with ground-based radars at the British sovereign bases on Cyprus and a Royal Navy Type 45 air defence destroyer off shore. This involved the sharing of radar data across Link 16 networks, said Air Cdre Beach. "Our ability to change in dynamic circumstances, depending on who had the best picture, between the air, land or maritime assets having tactical command and control, and the Typhoon working to any one of them, and sharing the picture, was really impressive. The Operation 'Luminous' experience demonstrated just how closely air and maritime elements are able to work, exploiting the strengths of each platform, and using the Typhoon as the 'sharp end' of that capability."
Without wishing to make any comment on current capabilities, it would seem that it's pretty important that Voyager also needs to have a reliable MIDS.....
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