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Peter Wheen on providing satellite communications systems for every ship. (RNM)

Transcript: “Something sort of happened to our advantage as a matter of time, for instance, the Cryptos, we talked about voice Cryptos and the fact that some ships had them down in the Falklands and some didn’t. Well that programme was completed in the intervening eight years, and in the intervening eight years we got to a period where all frigates and above had their own satellite communications. So that we got right, but that we just continuing processes that had begun before the Falklands.”

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