Uniter

mawganmad;134247 wrote:

I must admit I'm a bit with Canberra on this in that I don't think it was a waste of money as such, just bad timing with planning and construction times coinciding with the rundown of the Cold-was, many other projects met a similar fate.

There were projects, particularly some that were NATO requirements and had NATO-funding, that were cheaper to complete rather than pay cancellation fees from national funds. Don't know if Uniter came under this.
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Update to the list:
Coningsby also has 4 Hard NUBS, one by each Squadron Ops and two by the hangars.
Ditto for Lossie.
Found a third at Leeming. Correction, 4 at Leeming.

P wrote:

Update to the list:
Coningsby also has 4 Hard NUBS, one by each Squadron Ops and two by the hangars.
Ditto for Lossie.
Found a third at Leeming.

What about the Bampton Castle structure Paul? We have it listed as a HUB but according to the above from rotciv1 it is a soft NUB clad in brick.

Bampton NUB is just under half a mile SSW of the Bampton HUB.

P wrote:

Bampton NUB is just under half a mile SSW of the Bampton HUB.

Yep sorry checked again and I see that we have one listed in both types. No idea why I missed it!
Brain is hurting now...

You probably looked just before I updated the list.

Addition: One Hard NUB at Wattisham found...

I wonder if Dunkeswell was an ideal site for a switching centre and that's why its located there? Much the same could be said about Cranwell I suppose.

One Soft NUB spotted at Milltown.

The "spotted" list now stands as follows:

HUBs
Bampton Castle
Benson
Cranwell
Dunfirmline
Dunkeswell
Inverness (L)
North Luffenham
Prestwick
Rawcliffe
Sandy
Sealand (L)
Shawbury
Templeton
Topcliffe
Uxbridge
Watton

NUBs
Bampton Castle (Soft) x1
Brize Norton (Soft) x2
Chelveston (Soft) x 1
Coltishall (Soft) x2
Coningsby (Hard) x4
Cottesmore (Soft) x2
Kinloss (Hard) x2
Leeming (Hard) x4
Leuchars (Hard) x4
Lossiemouth (Hard) x4
Lyneham (Soft) x2
Marham (Hard) x4
Milltown (Soft) x1
Odiham (Soft) x2
Scampton (Soft) x2
Sealand (Soft) x1
St Mawgan (Hard) x2
Stornoway (Soft) x1 (x2?)
Waddington (Hard) x2
Wattisham (Hard) x1
Wittering (Soft) x2

A couple of photos of the Shawbury UNITER from David Thompson