A new use for an R3 Bunker
 

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I defer to the rest of you for comment ;)

Someone must have grassed them up.

Did it used to be a Joint Headquarters?

Did the police manage to roll up the whole gang?

I bet they were weeds but certainly made a hash of it

Please use the hash-tag 'Chilmark'.

I served at Chilmark a while ago.....still trying to figure out where this `bunker` is/was. 11MU covered 3 sites due to the nature of what was stored there....I can only guess this was on the `domestic` site

spliffing tlale

Ideal for a met office, no windows and bombproof

Subterranea Britannica: Research Study Group: Sites: Chilmark

As it was built in the 1980's, I doubt if it was an R3 'Rotor' type.

The ROTOR Project | TheTimeChamber

Aav8r, I fear you missed the tongue in cheek. Boulmer is the R3

Not quite sure what this thread has to do with military aviation.

The same subject is in Jet Blast at http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/5913...ibis-farm.html

PN, so was Neatishead, Ash and a number of other places.

M, I know that, it was the OP who cited Boulmer's R3.

H&F, about as relevant as the ticking bomb on the clock thread. AFAIK Boulmer was a military aviation facility.

MPN, you bad boy subverting the military aviation thread.

Thank you for those links, at the risk of sounding like an anorak,that was very interesting.

Bigt

This was at RGHQ Chilmark, NOT RAF Chilmark.

I spent some time at RAF Bawdsey, Suffolk, also an R3.

Three (I think) R3 bunkers were modernised to R3A standard, which provided protected cover for the power generators and their fuel. they were Boulmer, Neatishead and Sandwich (Ash). Only the Boulmer bunker remains in use.

The R3A update provided Full NBC filtering and EMP protection, unlike the original design which was intended to give protection against a hit by conventional HE bombs.

The sheer scale of the Rotor project was staggering. I also understand there are at least three GCI bunkers in NATO that were built to R3 deign.

And, of course, the Area Radar School was underground in RAF Sopley's underground hole, shared with Southern Radar.

It was a weird environment ... glad I never had to spend a full tour in one of them.

Don't forget the R4 bunkers - used as regional HQs as the delegation of duties to SOCs rendered their planned AD role obsolete.

Did my FC training in the bunker at Bawdsey and tours in the prerefurbishment bunkers at Boulmer and Buchan before doing the IUKADGE OCU at Ash and then a tour at the refurbished R3 at Neatishead. Then I had a short tour in the WWII bunker at Bentley Priory in the very brief existence of SOC UK before a tour in the bunker at HW at the UKCAOC.

Thinking about it, I spent about over half my RAF career as a troglodyte.