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Phoenix, an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)
The Phoenix battlefield surveillance, acquisition and targeting system provides
real-time surveillance by day and by night. Its mission is to disseminate battlefield information,
including target identification and position data, to command centres and artillery units over secure
battlefield communication nets. Phoenix entered service with the British Army in 1999 and was deployed
from 1999 as part of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo and, from 2003, in Iraq as part of Operation
Iraqi Freedom. The final operational flight of the Phoenix was in May 2006 and the system was finally retired
from service in March 2008.
(A:2008.5031)
