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Thursday, April 18, 2013

E-6 Mercury fleet expands, upgrades bandwidth capabilities

E-6B Mercury |An internet bandwidth upgrade being rolled out on the E-6B Mercury aircraft, the nation’s airborne strategic command platform, is expanding the jet’s capability to support the nation’s leaders in a crisis.

The Internet Protocol Bandwidth Expansion (IPBE) upgrade was recently installed during a service life extension program (SLEP) overhaul on aircraft 410, which was delivered to the Navy on March 14.

Aircraft 410, part of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VQ) 4 at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is the third fleet E-6B airborne command post aircraft to receive this upgrade.

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