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Old 17th Nov 2005, 17:32
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althenick
 
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There were wartime bases in Scotland that have gone. My Dad flew from Tain occasionally, and once crashed at Sumburgh, while there was Turnhouse, Dyce, etc. But Scotland seems to have escaped late- and post-Cold War cuts entirely unscathed, when the strategic rationale for ASW at Kinloss and for AD at Leuchars has vanished.
Taking it from a defence-wide point of view I think you'll find that Scotland has taken its fair whack of cuts. Rosyth? Crombie? Pitreavie? Lochinvar? Dalgetty? Altbea? Turnhouse? to name but a few.
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