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Old 29th Apr 2018, 20:35
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The radar trailers in post 45 belonged to 735 Radar Bomb Scoring Unit where Iserved for a few months in 1965. Its role was to track V Force simulated bombing runs, and through a clever contraption of wheels, cogs and a plotting table, provide a bombscore in yards. Some attacks were indeed pop-ups from 500ft to 11000ft on various targets in the Tyneside area. Newcastle airport ATC had a veto over these runs and could call abort at any stage if there were conflictions. The unit did possess a very powerful jammer which could cause the nav radar some difficulty. Once the pop-up attack became obsolete Ouston Bombplot became redundant and moved to Coningsby where it was known as Tumby Bombplot, a more suitable area for low level bomb scoring.
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