MOD Chicksands
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Ministry of Defence Chicksands, or more simply MOD Chicksands, is a tri-service British Armed Forces facility in Bedfordshire, approximately 35 miles north of London. It is named after Chicksands Prio
An entrance to MOD Chicksands
The main gate at RAF Chicksands in 1995, during the tenure of the US Air Force
An aerial view of RAF Chicksands during 1989
AN/FLR-9
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The AN/FLR-9 is a type of very large circularly disposed antenna array, built at eight locations during the Cold War for HF/DF direction finding of high priority targets. The worldwide network, known
MOD Chicksands
…Air Force Security Squadron, later becoming the 6950th Electronic Security Group and the 7274th Air Base Group. In 1962, a 1,443 feet (440 m) diameter AN/FLR-9 Wullenweber antenna array was constructed at Chicksands to form part of the Iron Horse HF direction finding network. This antenna array, dubbed the…
AN/FLR-9 antenna array at Misawa Air Base c. 1980