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The British Forces Germany (BFG) is the successor of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) and Royal Air Force Germany (RAFG) , which were disbanded due to the end of the Cold War as well as cuts in the armed forces due to HM Government's Options for Change. BAOR was composed of four divisions which formed I Corps. BFG is considerably reduced from such force levels, now comprised of three main brigades and 1st (UK) Armoured Division, whose HQ is based in Herford near Bielefeld, as well as garrison units. United Kingdom Support Command (Germany) has responsibility for all units, of all three services, on the continent which are not part of 1 (UK) Division. The British Forces Liaison Organisation (Germany) is responsible for negotiations and relations with German authorities. The RAF presence has virtually disapeared, now reduced to just RAF Nordhorn, a bombing and gunnery range. The last operational base RAF Brüggen was closed in 2002.
The current BFG total is over 53,000 people, although only about 25,000 are actually serving personnel. The equipment level of the BFG is rather high, with 216 Challenger 2 MBTs, 306 Warrior APCs, 66 AS-90 Braveheart howitzers, 18 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, over 1,000 other armoured personnel carriers, and a number of Gazelle and LynxThe Westland Lynx is a helicopter designed by Westland Aircraft and jointly produced with Aerospatiale, first flying on 21 March 1971 as the Westland WG. Originally intended as a utility craft for both civil and naval usage, military interest led to the d helicopters. The main areas of British presence are North Rhine-WestphaliaFlag Statistics Capital: Dusseldorf Area:34,080 km² Inhabitants:18,060,211 2002 pop. density:530 inh. km² Homepage:http://www. de/ ISO 3166-2:DE-NW Politics Minister-President: Peer Steinbruck ( SPD) Ruling party: SPD/ Green coalition Map With eighteen mi and Lower SaxonyFlag Statistics Capital: Hanover Area:47,618 km² Inhabitants:7,993,415 2003 pop. density:168 inh. km² Homepage: ISO 3166-2:DE-NI Politics Minister-President: Christian Wulff ( CDU) Ruling party: CDU/ FDP Map With an area of 47,618 km² and nearly eight mil.
The British presence in Germany is vitally important to British interests, as seen in the rapid deployment of British troops to KosovoKosovo and Metohija ( Serbian: Albanian: Kosova , usually called just Kosovo is an autonomous province of Serbia (which together with Montenegro constitutes Serbia and Montenegro). It is currently administered by the United Nations following the recent Ko during the war there in 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep, as well as the rapid build-up in the Middle EastThe Middle East is a geographical and cultural area comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is a subregion of Afr during the preparations for war with IraqThe Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia. It shares borders with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the south, Turkey to the north, Syria to the north-west, Jordan to the west and Iran to in 2003.
1.1 4th Armoured Brigade
