I'm glad us Americans, and the British are such good friends and partners. As an American I can say there is a certain familial connection I feel towards British history and culture, and by extension, the people. I suppose I am just trying to say, though we may not always agree, its good to see us all working together in mutual trust and protection.
Alaways remember the golf balls on the way to whitby.....my dad ex military would go on a rant about nuclear defence and war......when i was 8 ...my dad made me watch THREADS......thanks dad
Fascinating! I had the opportunity to tour an RAF radar site in Malaysia in 1971. While there I learned about the Five Power Defense Agreement(?) between the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore.
My Unkle worked there from the golf ball days through to the transition to the 360% solid state phased array we see now. He was a radar technician in a civilian role. Uk owned but mostly run by the USA.
I remember doing air defence of the old golf balls as an army missile troop commander. The RAF Regt was on a maintenance break, so we were brought in. Quite an interesting deployment but a very bleak place.
John Woods I know, most people suspect there are larger subterranean area’s that exist. There arnt. Not now anyway, maybe back when the golf balls where active so there are area’s underground tunnels etc but nothing exciting that’s left.
If a missile launch was detected in the northern hemisphere the likelihood of the UK being the target is very small, it is far more likely that the target would be either the US (in which case the responsibility is to notify them) or a NATO partner (in which case the responsibility is to notify the head of NATO, the US). We built and run the site but it is funded by the US because it's goal is to primarily protect the US, in turn it also protects us and everyone else in Europe since it can see 3,000km in every direction. In fact between the three sites in the UK, Greenland and Alaska this system can detect just about anything that takes off, flies over, or lands in the northern hemisphere with only the very centre of Russia being a blind spot (which incidentally is where they have all their ICBMs - just as the US has theirs in Kansas). The Russian equivalent of this system is the Duga over-the-horizon radar which ingeniously uses alternating high and low frequency bursts that bounce off the stratosphere on their way to a target and on the way back allowing the system to see 8,000km in a single direction over the curvature of the Earth. They built one in the Ukraine looking west over Europe, one in Siberia looking north over the arctic and one on Kamchatka island looking east over the pacific and all of them could see right into the heart of the US mainland. The huge downside for everyone in the northern hemisphere in the 70's and 80's was that the Duga system caused massive interference with almost every electrical device as it caused radios, TVs and most other receivers to make a chirping sound leading amateur radio enthusiasts to nickname the mysterious Russia-orientated signal "the Russian woodpecker". The US finally got the Russians to admit that Duga was the cause and talked them into switching the system off in return for the US agreeing to some compromises - though ballistic subs replacing ICBMs kind of made Duga (and the US system in this video) redundant anyway. Incidentally the agreement to switch Duga off was made just weeks after the Chernobyl accident which if you are a conspiracy theorist nutcake must have been like finding a huge pot of gold...
@@krashd I truly commend you on having taken so much of your time in writing all that valuable information down for us to peruse and enrich ourselves with!
Surprised that there is no indication operations is below ground and hardened. Also wish the squadron leader had put his headdress on while being interviewed on the roof. To me the badge on that headdress is something to be very proud of.
There would be no point in an enemy destroying a radar station because the moment it detects the attack it has completed it's purpose and is no longer relevant so whether you attacked Fylingdales or London it wouldn't matter as it would detect the attack, transmit the "NATO is under attack" signal and then it's job would be done. It would be like trying to destroy a smoke detector with fire in order to not wake the homeowner.
What about rocks and boulders?do they get physio for shotened muscles when sitting so much and kyphosis prevention? Sports injuries clinic superb better than nhs. I can do that. Physics Space vehicles useful studies? I remember gold balls when driving around for hours in back of car as child.! Funny sad they gone.
Mostly TV but apparently the government is testing a few social media stuff because warnings spread quicker over social media, also text SMS is one of them they tested that out but never said if they would use it, but generally we will never know until we get it. People have been saying in a nuke war, our phones would be cut off and we would only be able to receive messages but not send them
SpeedbirdAircrew Nah, what you’re looking at is the Ryanair ops room at London Fylingdales. Make your own ground transport arrangements, it’s in the small print.
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I'm glad us Americans, and the British are such good friends and partners. As an American I can say there is a certain familial connection I feel towards British history and culture, and by extension, the people. I suppose I am just trying to say, though we may not always agree, its good to see us all working together in mutual trust and protection.
Family doesn’t always agree mate, there’s a bond between us no doubt
I agree, but the US's habit of turning up late for world wars, test our friendship to the limit!
@@cruelbritannia4056 Yep, basically a mutual dislike of Germans, French & Russians...
We are family and friends with so much in common.
I appreciate how much effort is used to protect Yorkshire.
Ain't done much we have Bradford ha ha.
I'm finding this hard to believe
As a Dad and a Grandad, I feel safe in the knowledge our airforce is wide awake while we sleep. Thank you
Alaways remember the golf balls on the way to whitby.....my dad ex military would go on a rant about nuclear defence and war......when i was 8 ...my dad made me watch THREADS......thanks dad
Fascinating! I had the opportunity to tour an RAF radar site in Malaysia in 1971. While there I learned about the Five Power Defense Agreement(?) between the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore.
An amazing system!
their the best in their field of expertise so we are in safe hands
My Unkle worked there from the golf ball days through to the transition to the 360% solid state phased array we see now. He was a radar technician in a civilian role. Uk owned but mostly run by the USA.
I remember doing air defence of the old golf balls as an army missile troop commander. The RAF Regt was on a maintenance break, so we were brought in. Quite an interesting deployment but a very bleak place.
*Uncle
Interesting to see sun/sparc based platforms in use. thank you for this video, really well made and interesting.
This is not what you expect a high tech military radar control room to look like.
John Woods I know, most people suspect there are larger subterranean area’s that exist. There arnt. Not now anyway, maybe back when the golf balls where active so there are area’s underground tunnels etc but nothing exciting that’s left.
John Woods: Its British. As long as there is a spare socket to plug the kettle in to then thats all you need.
Antenna array and earth do use it ?
Transmit and Receive "diodes"? Someone took bad notes when they told him 'dipoles'.
When three panels of CP Pawsey Stub Antennae become 'diodes'..... lol!
windows XP background screen on the wall WTF? we are all doomed!
Christopher Crosby ok and?
Do is very functional and easy to understand unlike windows 10 and harder to hack and control
lol
Lol haha 😄
All milatary use Windows xp even on there brand new ships! I guess it can't be tracked or hacked as easy...
XP is used as an operating system in many military computer systems, some have been running for 15+ years without issues.
i remeber going to whitby as a kid & wondering what this was
As I write this I am near the place!
3:17 um you have a submarine fleet ?
I remember the golf balls. They looked very odd in the middle of the moors.
2:14 Is that Toby Flenderson? lol
Notice that he said we will let the US know first then the uk. So the US is running the show
It was a gift you know.
If a missile launch was detected in the northern hemisphere the likelihood of the UK being the target is very small, it is far more likely that the target would be either the US (in which case the responsibility is to notify them) or a NATO partner (in which case the responsibility is to notify the head of NATO, the US). We built and run the site but it is funded by the US because it's goal is to primarily protect the US, in turn it also protects us and everyone else in Europe since it can see 3,000km in every direction.
In fact between the three sites in the UK, Greenland and Alaska this system can detect just about anything that takes off, flies over, or lands in the northern hemisphere with only the very centre of Russia being a blind spot (which incidentally is where they have all their ICBMs - just as the US has theirs in Kansas).
The Russian equivalent of this system is the Duga over-the-horizon radar which ingeniously uses alternating high and low frequency bursts that bounce off the stratosphere on their way to a target and on the way back allowing the system to see 8,000km in a single direction over the curvature of the Earth. They built one in the Ukraine looking west over Europe, one in Siberia looking north over the arctic and one on Kamchatka island looking east over the pacific and all of them could see right into the heart of the US mainland.
The huge downside for everyone in the northern hemisphere in the 70's and 80's was that the Duga system caused massive interference with almost every electrical device as it caused radios, TVs and most other receivers to make a chirping sound leading amateur radio enthusiasts to nickname the mysterious Russia-orientated signal "the Russian woodpecker". The US finally got the Russians to admit that Duga was the cause and talked them into switching the system off in return for the US agreeing to some compromises - though ballistic subs replacing ICBMs kind of made Duga (and the US system in this video) redundant anyway.
Incidentally the agreement to switch Duga off was made just weeks after the Chernobyl accident which if you are a conspiracy theorist nutcake must have been like finding a huge pot of gold...
@@krashd I truly commend you on having taken so much of your time in writing all that valuable information down for us to peruse and enrich ourselves with!
@@krashdI'd rather listen to "Duga radio",, than most of the new shyte played on commercial radio theses days..
Putin will have that in his sights !!!
Surprised that there is no indication operations is below ground and hardened. Also wish the squadron leader had put his headdress on while being interviewed on the roof. To me the badge on that headdress is something to be very proud of.
Rob W If he needed to show the badge the whole time he wouldn’t be much good. I expect you’d like to see them doing a bit of drill?
There would be no point in an enemy destroying a radar station because the moment it detects the attack it has completed it's purpose and is no longer relevant so whether you attacked Fylingdales or London it wouldn't matter as it would detect the attack, transmit the "NATO is under attack" signal and then it's job would be done. It would be like trying to destroy a smoke detector with fire in order to not wake the homeowner.
What about rocks and boulders?do they get physio for shotened muscles when sitting so much and kyphosis prevention? Sports injuries clinic superb better than nhs. I can do that. Physics Space vehicles useful studies? I remember gold balls when driving around for hours in back of car as child.! Funny sad they gone.
How are the public warned if a middle attack was going to hit the uk ? And by who ? Assuming there is even a system ??
Mostly TV but apparently the government is testing a few social media stuff because warnings spread quicker over social media, also text SMS is one of them they tested that out but never said if they would use it, but generally we will never know until we get it. People have been saying in a nuke war, our phones would be cut off and we would only be able to receive messages but not send them
SpeedbirdAircrew no point in warning people about their demise will only cause panic which won’t help
Alucard In olden times the papers used to blether on about a Four Minute Warning - just enough time to kiss your arse goodbye.
SpeedbirdAircrew Nah, what you’re looking at is the Ryanair ops room at London Fylingdales. Make your own ground transport arrangements, it’s in the small print.
O’LEARY TAXIS. Competitive rates for transfers between London Fylingdales and London St Mawgan.
Transmit and receive 'Diodes'..... :-) Tells me all I need to know.
Insured? What if UK insist using chinese 5g, will US still have someone on the otherside to answer your phone call?
Make a comment on here, & expect a knock at the door.