Originally posted by Stoo
There's no great mystery about QinetiQ either, it's simply a semi-privatised version of of the government agency formally known as DERA.
Loads of info here: en.wikipedia.org...
Hardly a front company when it's all freely available information..
Yeah, when DERA was split the larger part became QinetiQ in which the MoD has majority shares and Dstl - purely MoD run for all the nasties, Bio
tech/Top secret projects etc.
RAF Buchan's been closed for some time now, it's remotely operated. As for Black projects running out of RAF Lossie or Kinloss, i really doubt
that.
MoD Machrihanish is on care and maintenance and could go operational again soon, with a bit of work mind you. The SEALS dont maintain a manned
presence their anymore i belive, but their hanger is still intact, heavily cordoned off and supposedly is still full of kit. The base is used
Frequently by Special forces for training - the reason why the old weapons storage bunkers are shot to bits.
But apparently theres a lot of weird stuff that goes on up there at times, it does have the longest runway in the UK/EU and there's supposed to be a
super bunker amongst other things...
[edit on 16/2/07 by C ROBERTSON]