Raytheon AN/FPS-132 Solid State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS)
Website
Official website
Site history
Built
1962 (1962)/63
In use
1963–Present
Garrison information
Current commander
Wg Cdr Thomas Colledge
PAVE PAWS and BMEWS coverage
Royal Air Force Fylingdales or more simply RAF Fylingdales is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is Vigilamus ("We are watching").[1] It is a radar base and is also part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS). As part of intelligence-sharing arrangements between the United States and United Kingdom (see, for example, the UKUSA Agreement), data collected at RAF Fylingdales are shared between the two countries. Its primary purpose is to give the British and US governments warning of an impending ballistic missile attack (part of the so-called four minute warning during the Cold War). A secondary role is the detection and tracking of orbiting objects; Fylingdales is part of the United States Space Surveillance Network.[2][3][4] As well as its early-warning and space-tracking roles, Fylingdales has a third function – the Satellite Warning Service for the UK. It keeps track of spy satellites used by other countries, so that secret activities in the UK can be carried out when they are not overhead. The armed services, defence manufacturers and research organisations, including universities, take advantage of this facility.[4][5]
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[the] UK Space Operations Centre, Skynet (satellite) communications, RAFFylingdales, and other enabling capabilities." The command was initially planned...
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pyramid which replaced the golfball-style radome installations at RAFFylingdales. Wragg, David W. (1973). A Dictionary of Aviation (first ed.). Osprey...
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later a Flight Chief. In 2014, he returned to the UK and was posted to RAFFylingdales as a Crew Chief, supervising the operation of the Ballistic Missile...
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makes it to the Sweetsage base and learns Beale Air Force Base and RAFFylingdales have been destroyed. Deeming the war over and survival in the silo...
Radio System (NARS), NATO NATO air-defence network stretching from RAFFylingdales, via Mormond Hill, UK, Sornfelli (Faroe Islands), Höfn, Iceland to...
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presence include RAF Menwith Hill (only a short distance from RAFFylingdales), RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall (scheduled to close in 2027), RAF Fairford (the...
often been used in film and television productions. He travels on to RAFFylingdales, where he visits the control room and learns about its history. His...
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