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reply posted on 13-12-2007 @ 01:26 PM by h3akalee
reply to post by castlesonair


I did an exercise at HMNB Clyde.

HM Naval Base Clyde, at Faslane, some 25 miles north west of Glasgow, is home to the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear deterrent and the headquarters of the Royal Navy in Scotland.

I was very young in junior leader's to be exact. But i remember we went up onto the hills for a week.

We dug in for the first night in some wooded area above a valley.

Now the reason i remember this area is one of our role's was to observe this one area.

This place was wierd it was in the base of the valley and all up the side's were these odd bunker's.

Dug into the mountain if you will.

What made it even more odd was the fact that every so often a loud speaker would sound that would echo thru the valley.

This would be followed by a voice and i can not for the life in me remember what this voice was saying but is was bizzare.

I class this place as being even more bizzare than porton down. And i have spent a great deal of time there.

Regard's
Lee



[edit on 13-12-2007 by h3akalee]



reply posted on 7-1-2008 @ 03:52 PM by rat256
reply to post by auspegasus


Hi

I live in this neck of woods and if the train track you are thinking of is the same as the one i'm thinking of it is nothing more sinister than a target railway, targets are shuttled along the 100m track by small locos which disapear into a 'tunnel' shelter when moving targets are not required to protect them from other range activities.

as far as i know, and thats quite a long way as i have friends and relatives in the forces who have been stationed at the bovington tank base, what you see is what you get as far as lulworth goes. the only thing of interest is that there are a couple of medium size (apparently designed for about 50 people) domestic fall out shelters with the basements of buildings on the barrack sites. these are not true nuclear bunkers and will not withstand anything much but will protect from the effects of distant fall out (say if london had a cold war era bomb dropped on it you would probably be ok in these sorts of bunkers) they have provisions and air scrubbers but not a lot else.


reply posted on 8-1-2008 @ 01:32 PM by snoopyuk
reply to post by rat256


hi there,

when you say it would withstand the fallout from a coldwar era bomb on London, Do you know any info on the effects of a modern era bomb would be ??

thanks

[edit on 8-1-2008 by snoopyuk]


reply posted on 8-1-2008 @ 06:08 PM by rat256
reply to post by snoopyuk


I've had a chat with a very good friend of mine who untill a few years ago worked for the atomic energy authority (shes now a private consultant) and whilst she doesn't make bombs, and never has made bombs, she is an expert in dealing with the after effects of nuclear accidents, as such she has a professional interest in knowing what the effects of a modern nuclear strike might be.

she gives your chances in the bunker in question as being:

"at that distance from the blast centre, not better than 60/40 in your favour for 2 reasons.
1) the concrete structure of a 1950/60s era bunker is almost certainly in dubious order and may not be resistant to
a) the effects of the primary blast on the surface and
b) not resistant to the additional seismic effects.
2) it has been shown that modern nuclear weapons produce radioactive dust many times finer than previously thought. There are no filters/scrubbers resistant to ingress by this material, in fact there is a great likelihood that many supposedly sealed recirculating systems are not resistant to this material either"

She points out that air handlers with any chance of working correctly are almost exclusively reserved for utterly critical military applications and are not applied to the sort of shelter we are dealing with here. to the best of her knowledge there are no commercially available systems which would provide adequate protection.

Apparently she gets asked questions like this quite a lot by rich people trying to rid themselves of several million pounds by building a bunker to write off against tax!

(if I wasn't who I am to her, this information would have cost about £600!)

;0)


reply posted on 9-1-2008 @ 03:49 PM by snoopyuk
reply to post by rat256


you sir , are a major star !!!

many many thanks for this info, and please thank your friend.

i have given you a star and added you as a friend.

thanks

snoopyuk
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