| Airwave |
Airwave is a national mobile radio communications service designed to serve the needs of the Home Office (HO) police forces and other PSO in Scotland, England and Wales. The service is based on the TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard of Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) developed through the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
The Airwave service has been procured as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) by the HO in order to meet the requirements of the Public Safety Radio Communications Project (PSRCP). The prime contractor is O2 Airwave formerly BT Mobile.
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| Individual Weapon |
 The SA80 is a revolutionary family of assault weapons. On its introduction, the L85 Individual Weapon (IW) proved so accurate that the Army marksmanship tests had to be redesigned. The British Army uses the L85 Individual Weapon that replaced the rifle and sub-machine gun, and the L86 Light Support Weapon (LSW) that produces higher volumes of fire and is effective at longer ranges. | |
| Personal Role Radio (PRR) |
The PRR is a small transmitter-receiver that allows soldiers to communicate over short distances, even through thick cover or the walls of buildings - without shouting, hand signals or relaying messages. It enables commanders to react quickly, aggressively and efficiently to rapidly changing situations including contact with the enemy | |
| Clansman |
Clansman is the in-service family of tactical radios with which the British Army is currently equipped to provide communications from formation headquarters forward to the fighting units. CLANSMAN is a lighter, far more reliable and adaptable system than the LARKSPUR system that it replaced. In its turn CLANSMAN is being replaced by Bowman. | |
| RATT |
High Frequency (HF) Radio Adapter Telegraph Typing (RATT). The RATT Enables insecure or secure data working over HF, utilising the Trend teleprinter, ATR. Due to the nature of HF propagation this system can be used world wide | |
| Reebok |
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 There are 3 REEBOK detachments, manned by members of 2 (NC) Sig Bde’s TA national communications regiments Each detachment consists of 2 vehicles; 1 system control vehicle and 1 staff vehicle capable of providing an initial office environment for 5 staff.
REEBOK is capable of supporting a total of 25 staff (using a building of opportunity). It could also provide a capability for Business Continuity Planning (BCP). It has an organic SATCOM capability and integral power making it suitable for deployment when terrestrial connectivity is not available. It provides the voice and data capability | |
| Command Support Team (CST) |
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The CST is a static or mobile Communications Centre frame work used to set up a hasty ICS establishment to support Military response to a wide range of contingencies in the UK in peace, tension/crisis and war. It is a high readiness detachment which will be used to provide communications in support of an incident within UK, with a 12hr notice to move capability. Once on site it can be set up within an hour. It offers Staff the opportunity to provide Military support to the Civil Authorities. In addition it also has the ability to provide support to mounting operations and Home Defence. | |
