Reacher Satellite Ground Terminal

Reacher is the new mobile X-Band satellite ground terminal (SGT) being bought by the U.K. Ministry Of Defence designed to replace all medium and large legacy SGTs used in the land environment.[1]

Variants

Reacher comes in three variants:

Reacher Large, mounted on a MOWAG Duro III vehicle, provides an assured data rate of 8 Mbit/s through a 4.5 metres (15 ft) antenna. Reacher Large takes15 minutes to set up and can only be used when stationary.

Reacher Medium is mounted on a MOWAG Duro III 6 x 6 vehicle and provides an assured data rate of 2 Mbit/s through a 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) antenna. It is ready for immediate use.

Reacher Royal Marine (RM). Reacher RM is mounted on two amphibious Bandvagn 206 vehicles and provides an assured data rate of 2 Mbit/s through a 2.4 m antenna. It is designed for use in amphibious warfare. It has been used in operation telic and herrick on land in the same role as Reacher Medium.

Transport

All Reacher terminals are transportable using Chinook helicopters (underslung). The Large variant can be transported by C17 and the Medium and RM variants by C130.

References

  1. ↑ "Royal Corps of Signals - Equipment - Satellite Communications". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
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