The idea that military research and development could possibly be privatised would, to many, seem ridiculous. It would appear obvious to most people that the profit motive and military priorities do not sit easily together. We must therefore keep close tabs on those whose business is make private profit from more efficient ways of maiming and killing.
MoD Abbey Wood - nr. Bristol [inc.1,100 Warship Support Agency (WSA) workers]
MoD Foxhill - nr Bath. Upgrade & refurbishment during 2001. Housing up to 1,800 defence workers
Defence Logistics Organisation - Ensleigh, nr Bath
MoD Pinesgate - nr Bath [to be sold]
MoD Warminster Road, Bath [to be sold]
RAF Chicksands - USAF SatCom Facility. RAF Signals/Photographic Interpretation
Army Chicksands - nr. Bedford. Intelligence Corps HQ, Defence Intelligence & Security Centre (D.I.S.C.) + British Naval Intelligence Centre
DERA/QinetiQ - Bedford
Barford St John - nr. Banbury. Joint RAF/USAF
RAF Bicester
RAF Cardington - Non-operational airfield. Retains former airship hangars.
RAF Henlow - Electronics - HQ CSE + Provost and Security Services
RAF Stanbridge - RAF Logistics Computer Centre. Sat of Henlow
Institute of Technology - Cranfield
Unspecified base (secret) - Henley, near Reading
Unspecified Base (secret) - Watchfield
AWE Burghfield - Mfg nuclear warheads for shipment via road to RAF + Trident Submarine Bases
Atomic Weapons Research Estab - Aldermaston
Atomic Energy Commission - Harwell
RAF Thatcham - UK Natl Dist Agency
Royal Naval Base - Bush Barn
Army - Arborfield Garrison. Mostly training & support
Welford - NW of Newbury. Returned to OS map after 50 yrs. Poss. [u/gnd?] weapons store
RAF Bracknell - Temp site for Joint Service Command. Closure 2000
RAF High Wycombe - ADOC HQ Strike Command, #1 Grp: strike/attack
Army - Cheddington
Rocket Propulsion Establishment Research Centre - Westcott
RAF Halton - Training + Guided Weapons School & Southern Region Provost and Security Staff
RAF Naphill -
RAF Molesworth - nr. Huntingdon. UK/US Analysis Center + Reg. Joint Intelligence Facility [RJITF]
Army - Bassingbourn
RAF Brampton - Wyton. HQ Logistics Command
RAF Alconbury - nr Huntingdon
RAF / USAF Upwood - Upwood
RAF Wittering - nr Peterborough, No's 1+20 Sqn's, Harrier GR.7s & T10s
GCHQ / NSA Morwenstow - Joint operated SatCom monitoring station
RAF St Mawgan - nr Newquay. No.3 Maritime HQ, Tornados, Nimrods + SAR Sea King HAR3s
Goonhilly Downs - Satellite Communications ( BT + ? )
Portreath - Sat of St Mawgan. No.405 Sigs Unit (Navigation Air Defence Radar Station)
Predannack - Satellite of RNAS Culdrose. No.626 V.G.S. - Viking TX.1. [RN]
RNAS Culdrose - Helston. Largest helicopter base in W. Europe. 5 heli sq + [80 a/c in all]
HMS Raleigh - Torpoint. RN basic training centre
DERA/QinetiQ - Eskmeals nr Sellafield. Weapons testing facility & still operational
Irton Moor - NSA Sigint
RAF Brampton - Subsidary Log Comm units etc
RAF Spadeadam - Electronic Countermeasures Range [no a/c]
Remote Ammunitioning Facility Tamar (RAFT) - Bull Point, Plymouth. Weapons loading jetty for nuclear-powered submarines. Planned completion of construction in 2003
RAF Chivenor - Braunton. Marines. No.s 624/22 Sqn + SAR Sea King Helicopters
HM Naval Base Devonport - Plymouth. Largest Naval Base in West Europe
RN Barracks - Stonehouse, nr Plymouth
HMS Cambridge - Wembury, nr Plymouth
Mountain and Artic Warfare - Plymouth RN Lympstone - Devon. Poss. u/g @ Sandy Bay, Exmouth
Army - Lulworth. Firing Ranges
Army - Okehampton. Training area
Army - Willsworthy. Firing range
Poole - HQ Special Boat Squadron [SBS]. Approx 100 men
Royal Corp Signals HQ - Blandford [serve also in Cyprus]
Royal Armoured Corp Centre - Wareham
Army - Wyke Regis. Training area
Wool - Training area
RNAS Portland - Undergoing closure. All a/c [140] transferred to RNAS Yeovilton Jan '99
MOD Wethersfield - HQ MOD Police [fomer USAF base] Former RAF Matching - nr Harlow
Former USAAF Little Walden - nr Saffron Walden
Army - Colchester Garrison. Inc Airmobile Brigades & Air Defence
DERA/Ineti - Shoebury and Foulness weapons testing complex [army]
GCHQ/NSA Chelteham - (Sigint) Construction underway of new £350 millionfacility located at nearby Benhall, Cheltenham. Completion of new
40 acre eavesdropping site is Spring 2003.
RAF Fairford - nr Cirencester. USAF Europe. Inc B52 + Stealth Bomber
RAF Boddington - No.9 Signals Unit + TARE HQ
RAF Hullavington - No.621, No.625 V.G.S. - Viking TX.1.
RAF Innsworth -. HQ RAF Training
British Army - Ashchurch
Royal Aircraft Research Establishment - Farnborough
RAF Oakhanger - Mil SatcomUK, No.1001 Sigs + NATO Sat grnd term
Fort Southwick - nr Portsmouth. Main comms site adjacent to DERA communications intercept site
DERA/QinetiQ - Farnborough HQ
RN Fleet HQ - Whale Island, Portsmouth [Future location]
Gosport - Large Naval stores inc. hospital
Royal Logistics Corps (RLC) - Marchwood, Southampton. Military port
Fort Monkton - Gosport. Inc. Submarine Escape Training Tank. Possibly also used by MI5/6 for training purposes
BAe - Hurn, 4m NE Christchurch
Army -. Aldershot Garrison inc. Airborne Brigades
Army .- Andover Garrison.
Army Training Regt - Winchester
Army Training Regt - Pirbright
School of Army Aviation - Middle Wallop. HQ. Gazelle, Squirrel, Lynx helis
Army - Worthy Down
Bramley - Former bomb/ammo depot now training area
Radio Research Station - Chilbolton, nr Aldershot
RAF Odiham - Nos.7, 18 & 27 Sqns. Transport. Chinook HC2s
RN Research Station - Lea-on-Solent, 4m WNW Portsmouth
DERA - Lasham. Closed & transferred to W.Scotland.
Credenhill [former RAF base] - nr. Hereford. Home to 4 squadrons [50 men each] of Special Air Service [22nd SAS] since May 1999.
DERA/QinetiQ - Pershore [MoD]
Royal Radar Establishment - Defford
BAe - Stevenage. Builds missiles and electronic equipment for a/craft
Army Training Regt - Bassingbourn
Cowden - East Coast Bombing Range
RAF Leconfield - Sole air use by Search & Rescue HAR3 helicopters over North Sea
DERA/QinetiQ - Fort Halstead. Regarded by some as a stealth research facility
Army - Ashford. Templar Barracks. Defence Intelligence and Security School
Ash - Part of Manston. Radar + Air Warfare for ADGE
Rochester - Defence Explosive Ordnance Disposal School
RAF Biggin Hill - Westerham
RAF Manston - Ramsgate - no a/c
Army - Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe Camp, Folkestone
Army - Lydd. Training area
Royal School of Military Eng - Chatham
RAF Alconbury - Deactivated. Site sold for development
RAF Waddington - Elec Recon + E/Warning, Nimrod R1s, Sentry AEW1s (+ NATO use)
BAe Warton - R&D. Upgraded fac. linked to 'HALO' stealth a/craft project
Samlesbury - No.635 V.G.S. - Vigilant T.1.
RAF Woodvale - University Air Squadrons
RAF Cottesmore - Oakham, nr Leicester, Tornado GR1
Army - North Luffenham, nr Oakham. Special Operatons training including SAS, SBS + US mil
Army - Loughborough. Communication and Security Group (U.K)
RAF (USAF/NATO) Waddington - nr Lincoln. Electronic & A/Warfare. AWACS E-3D + Nimrod
RAF Barkston Heath - Relief Landing Ground for Cranwell + training
RAF Binbrook - nr Lincoln
RAF Coningsby - nr Lincoln Nos. 5, 29 & 56 [Top Gun] Sqns, Tornado F3s (Air Defence)
RAF Cranwell - nr Sleaford, Air Warfare Centre + air training
RAF Digby - nr Scopwick. Inc. USN/USAF/US Army. No. 399 Sigs Unit
Donna Nook - nr North Somercotes. Bombing range
RAF Holbeach - Wash offshore bombing range
RAF Honington - Depot (no a/c)
RAF Wainfleet - All Saints. East Coast bombing range
Army - Kirton-in-Lindsey. 22nd Air Def. Reg
RAF Scampton - nr Lincoln, Earmarked for closure
Royal Ordnance Faldingworth - nr Market Rasen. Closed '99 (RO is part of BAe)
Northwood - Main MOD Ops [Whitehall HQ2] / NATO / Trident [nuke] Ops Centre. Large u/grnd. facility of 3 levels.
RAF Bentley Priory - UK Air Defence [north/south] - No.s 11/18 Group HQ
Naval Fleet HQ will be relocating to Portsmouth, Hampshire.
RAF Uxbridge - HQ Military Air Traffic Ops (NATO)
RAF West Drayton - Military ATC
RAF Kenley - No.615 V.G.S. - Viking TX.1.
RAF Northolt - Ruislip. VIPs & Royal, BAe 125s, 146s
RAF Stanmore Park - HQ no11 Strike Com (air def). Closed '98. Transf to Bentley Priory
RAF Hendon - De-activated. Site redeveloped and inc Met police HQ
RAF Coltishall - Norwich, Nos. 6, 41, 54 Sqns, Jaguar 1A, 1Bs, inc photo reconn unit
RAF Marham - Nos 2 & 13 Sqns, GR1A Tornado (Tac Recon) + Canberras
RAF Neatishead - Radar Site
RAF Swanton Mornley - nr Dereham
RAF West Raynham - nr Fakenham
Army - Thetford. Training area
RAF Boulmer - nr Alnwick. Radar site. No.1 A.C.C.,H.Q. No.202 Sq: Sea King HAR.3
Army - Alnwick. 'Z' Company
Army - Ashington. 'Z' Company
Army - Otterburn. Artillery training area
Brizlee Wood - Radar Site
RAF Syerston - Cadet training
RAF Newton - nr Nottingham. air training
Army - Nottingham. Inc Sect of 2nd Military Intell Co
BAE Systems Royal Ordnance (RO) - Nottingham
RAF Brize Norton - Nos.10, 101, 216 Sqdns, VC10 tanker / transp base. TacComm Wing etc
RAF Abingdon - Abingdon
RAF Bampton Castle - Sigs units, HF Comms - Parented by RAF Brize Norton
RAF Benson - No.33 sqdn, Puma Helicopters. No. 6 AEF
RAF Shrivenham . RMS of Science + Def Info Tech
Weston-on-the-Green - Sat. of Brize Norton. Parachute Drop Center
Joint Army / RAF / USAF - Bicester
USAF Upper Heyford -
British Army - Abingdon. 3rd Close + 4th General Supp. Reg. Dalton Barracks
Atomic Energy Commission - Culham - research into atomic fusion of use to the military - under cover of civil programme
British Telecom - Oswestry. BTs secret switching/tapping center
RAF Cosford - No.8 A.E.F.,No.633 V.G.S. - Vigilant T.1.
RAF Shawbury - nr Shrewsbury, Defence Helicopter Training School + Cent. ATC School
RAF Tern Hill - Def. Helicopter Training + No 632 VGS Vigilant T1s
Unspecified Base - Bridleway Gate
Unspecified Base - Chetwynd
Army - Nesscliffe - Training area
RNAS Yeovilton - Sea Harrier FA2s/T4N/T8s + Sea King HC4, Linx, Gazelle, Puma & Chinook Helis [140+ a/c]
RN Norton Manor Camp - nr Taunton
RAF Locking - nr WSM. De-activated. Quarters earmarked for asylum seekers or new housing dev.
RAF Stafford - Sandon Rd, Beaconside, Tac Supply Wing + maint
Army - Leek. Training camp
Army Training Regt - Lichfield
Army - Swynnerton. Llansilin Firing Range
RAF Feltwell - US 5th Space Surveillance Squadron [BMEWS]
RAF Mildenhall - Use by USAF Europe. Inc 352nd Special Ops Grp [7th, 21st and 67th SOS]
Martlesham Heath - BT Labs. Used by UK Govt to examine every new comms product
RAF Honington - nr Bury St Edmonds. Air Warfare Centre Surface-to-Air Weapons O.E.U.,
RAF Lakenheath - Currently used by USAF in Europe
RAF Wattisham - Ipswich. RAF ATC. No.22 Sqn SAR, Sea King HAR3s
BAe Dunsfold - Maint. & repair of Harrier GR..7 a/c
Royal School of Military Eng - Minley
Army School of Ammunition - Kineton. Bomb/ammo depot, inc. large railway system
Corsham Computer Centre - nr Bath. In reality a military 'black project' nuclear underground command centre
DERA/QinetiQ - Larkhill [MoD]
DERA Porton Down - [Army] Chemical & Biological Defence [CBD] Estab
Winterbourne Gunner - Jnt Svcs Defence Nuclear Biological & Chemical Centre
Aircraft & Armament Experimental Establishment - Boscombe Down
RAF/DERA Boscombe Down - Amesbury, nr Salisbury. Air Warfare, DETO
Defence Communications Services - Basil Hill, nr Corsham [under development in 2001]
RAF Colerne - nr Bath. No 1001 Sigs
RAF Hulavington - nr Chippenham
RAF Lyneham - nr Chippenham. TacTransport, Hercules C1, C3s
Army / RAF Upavon - nr Pewsey. No 622 VGS
RAF Rudloe Manor - Hawthorne, MoD Comms N/work, linked with UFO reporting [closed + 42 acre site sold off, poss. hotel]
DERA/QinetiQ - Malvern. Wide-ranging research inc., jamming, radar detection and electronic warfare. Encryption, computer security & hacking, lasers, lcd & night vision research. Secure comms satellites and Data links. Stealth, UAVs & possibly [uncorroborated] Teleportation research.
GCHQ / NSA [RAF] Menwith Hill - 7miles west of Harrogate. Known to NSA as field station F83 and by workers [1600 US and 370 British] as "The Hill", it is also a BMEWS Site linked to USSC, Colorado Springs
RAF Fylingdales - nr Pickering. NSA Phased array radar [BMEWS]
Forest Moor NMC - (Nav/Nat Mil Comms] adjacent to above.Main trunk route for all Naval SatCom
Irton Moor - nr Scarborough. Secret base with NSA connections
RAF/Army Catterick - nr Richmond. Garrison. Inc Section of 2 Military Intelligence
RAF Church Fenton - No.9 A.E.F., Relief landing ground for Linton-on-Ouse
RAF Linton-upon-Ouse - nr York, Pilot training, CFS Tucano T1 Squadron
RAF Topcliffe - Satellite of RAF Linton-on-Ouse
RAF Dishforth - Army Air Corp Heli base
RAF Leeming - Leeming Bar, Northallerton. Panavia (Mfg) Tornado F3 (Maritime Air Defence) + Hawks
RAF Finningley - nr Doncaster. Closed. Site sold for industrial use & poss. Intl. Airport
DERA - West Freugh, SatCom Grnd Station + a/field
ATC Prestwick - Ayrshire. HQ Mil Air Traffic Ops
Coulport - Loch Long. Underground facility for storing atomic bombs.
RAF Leuchars - nr. Fife, Nos 43 + 111 Sqn, Tornado F3s
Brora - NSA Sigint
Hawklaw - NSA Sigint
RAF Machrihanish - nr Cambeltown, Argylleshire, long runway, NATO base, reconnaisance. RAF reports station "under enhanced care and maintenance status". Newspapers report station closing.
Royal Navy Clyde Sub Base - Faslane, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, (nuke sub base)
RNAS Prestwick - UK det. 819 Sqn. Sea King HAS6 SAR
Arbroath - No.662 V.G.S. - Viking TX.1. [RN]
Army - Benbecula, Outer Hebrides. Artillery testing area + Radar. No 71 Sigs Unit
Cape Wrath - Sutherland. Firing range used by US Navy
Crombie - Integrated Weapon Complex joint RAF/RN missile maintenance
Garvie Island - RAF bombing range off NW Scotland
Greenock War HQ - Greenock
Inchterf (MOD P.E.) - nr. Kirkintilloch. Directorate of Proof & Experimental Estab., of D.E.R.A.
Saxa Vord - Radar site. No 91 sigs unit
St. Kilda - Outer Hebrides. Artillery tracking stn
RAF Buchan -. nr Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Radar. Nos 170/480 sigs. Con rep center
RAF Kinloss - Forres, Moreyshire, All Nimrod MR2s + ops r/station at Aird Uig, W. Isles
Army Air Corp - Leuchars. Gazelle heli
RAF Linton - Borders of Eng / Scot
RAF Lossiemouth ..... Morayshire, Tornado GR1B, Jaguar GR1As (Maritime Strike) + SAR Sea King HAR3s
Prestwick - Scottish ATC Center
Rosehearty - RAF Weapons Range
Train - Bombing Range, Moray Firth
Army - Arbroath, Angus
Army - Ballater. Royal Guard [guard
Britain's atom bomb store at Coulport in Scotland. Sixteen massive bunkers have been gouged out of the ridge overlooking Loch Long. This building can store more than 100 atom bombs in underground vaults behind airlock doors. It is used as a temporary holding bay when the bombs arrive at Coulport. They are then moved to a jetty and loaded onto Trident submarines
Army [Brawdy] - Pemb. Former RAF base linked to UFO investigations.
Conducted underwater sound surveillance also.
DERA/QinetiQ - Aberporth, Dyfed. Currently trial site for doppler [pulse] radar tracking
DERA/QinetiQ - Llanbedr [MOD] - Operational airfield inc. Hawk a/c. Launches target drones from here
RAF St. Athan - nr Barry, Sth Glamorgan, Harrier GR.7, Viking TX1, Tucano T1 + maint
RAF Pembrey Sands - Carmarthenshire, Sth Wales, bombing + firing range
RAF Sealand - Mostly maintenance
PATA - Pontrilas Army Training Area - 10 miles SW Hereford. Inc air exclusion zone. Possible exclusive SAS use.
Army - Abertillery. Inc Air Defence Regt
Army - Aberystwyth
Army - Epynt. Training area
Army - Manorbier. Royal Artillery firing range
Army - Penhally. Training area
Navy - Castlemartin. Test range for US/UK aircraft [naval?]
RAF Valley - nr Holyhead. 22nd Sq S&R Sea King HAR3 + Air Guided Weapons Operational Evaluation Unit (AGWOEU)
RAF Mona - Diversion runway for Valley
Army HQNI - Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn
Intelligence Center - Ladas Drive, Castlereagh, Belfast
GCHQ (eavesdropping) sub-base - Island Hill, Comber
GCHQ (eavesdropping) sub-base - Gilnahirk, Belfast
British Army - Torr Head, Ballycastle. Radio comms facility
RAF Aldergrove - Nos. 3, 72 & 230 Sqdns, Wessex HC2, Puma HC1, Chinook
Army - Ebrington Barracks, Londonderry
Army - Drumadd Barracks, Armagh
Army - Bessbrook Mill Airfield
Royal Navy - Oxford Island. Main comms & radar
RAF Bishop Court - Decommissioned Radar Site
Government Technical Assistance Centre [GTAC] - Yet to be constructed is a $40 Million surveillance center probably specializing in unscrambling coded Internet messages
Raucebury - ???
Longcross MOD Test track- ???
Long Valley - ???
Miley Woods - Training area ???