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unusual facts about radar station



Civil defence centres in London

The area of London (extending outwards to the then boundary of the Metropolitan Police District and thus including some areas outside the modern Greater London) was designated Region 5 and had its Regional Seat of Government in a re-used radar station at Kelvedon Hatch in Essex.

Sankamphaeng Range

During the Vietnam War there was a US military Air Defense Radar Station of the 621 TCS Tactical Control Squadron, at the top of Khao Rom, also known as Khao Khiao, the highest summit of the range.


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Azerbaijani Air Forces

Plans were announced for the US to modernize one radar station near the Iranian border at Lerik and another near the border with Georgia at Agstafa.

Carmi

Carmi Air Force Station, a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station

CFB Bagotville

On 1 March 1999 12 Radar Squadron was formed at CFB Bagotville to provide tactical control of fighter/interceptor aircraft; it replaced a radar station at RCAF Station Mont Apica which was closed.

Columbia Falls Air Force Station

Columbia Falls Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force radar station in Washington County, Maine.

Esther Charlotte Emily Weisbrodt Francis

It serves as a radar station operated by the National Guard to guide air traffic in the Great Basin region.

Fighter Interception Unit

They were directed to a possible intercept by the controller at Poling Chain Home radar station who reported an incoming raid.

Globus II

The Russian general Leonid Ivashov said in a statement to the Norwegian newspaper, Dagbladet, that Russia had programmed tactical nuclear weapons to attack the radar station.

James Ralston

Despite not being from Prince Edward Island, Ralston continued his support to that province as political minister by authorizing the establishment of RCAF Station Mount Pleasant, RCAF Station Summerside (both in his riding) and RCAF Station Charlottetown, as well as a radar station in Tignish (also in his riding).

RAF Beachy Head

RAF Station Beachy Head was a Royal Air Force (RAF) radar station and one of the many Chain Home Low radar stations, being situated near Beachy Head and Eastbourne in East Sussex, England.

RAF Chenies

In the 1980s the station was used as the site for a Met Office weather radar station with a 'golf ball' styled Radome, still in use today.

RCAF Station Mont Apica

RCAF Mont Apica (later Canadian Forces Station or CFS Mont Apica) (ADC ID: C-1) was a radar station of the Pinetree Line, located in Mont-Apica, Quebec, Canada, during the Cold War.

The Lost Missile

With the missile blazing its path of destruction, a radar station on the DEW Line picks up its approach to the North American continent.

Two Men Went to War

The aide intervenes in the court martial, establishes their presence at the enemy radar station and conveys an invitation to tea with the Prime Minister should they ever be in Whitehall.

Valhalla Brewery

In 2012 the brewery moved to a building at the former RAF Saxa Vord radar station, near Haroldswick.