Nuclear warheads at RAF North Coates

but never say never!

Except in this case.

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Not sure, I have only second hand knowledge of the report but it stems from the memories of a 97 years old who worked there as a civvy in charge of works and bricks dept.
Memories get clouded over the years and doubtless this chap has worked at many RAF stations during his time, I think he is confused with another base, but never say never!

Has the journo been reading about the abandoned proposals for a nuclear-tipped Bloodhound Mk 3? As BigVern says, the only radiation an North Coates came from the various radars.

Oh dear.

I can already see the grainy blue boroscope images of the water filled crates…..

Seen this

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/503040-raf-north-coates.html

A friend of mine was an ‘erk’ when they reopened the airfield to convert it to Bloodhound SAMs. He told me An SNCO led him and others to a padlocked ‘Robin’ type hangar where they removed the padlock with bolt cutters. Inside they found what he described as Beaufighter ‘toolkits’ (not sure if he didn’t actually mean spares kits) but anyway, they weren’t on the inventory, so to avoid any queries my friend and the others were ordered to dig a hole and bury them. Probably still there (if the story is true and I see no reason why not)

There is also a large lagoon on the seaward side of the sea wall where rumour has it four Rolls Royce Merlins were dumped along with most of the camps rubbish.
Before the RAF left North Coates a metal detector sweep was conducted by the Army bomb disposal which revealed a lot of underground anomolies, some of which was removed, mostly unstable ammo. They didn’t get everything though and ordnance and bits of aircraft are regularly ploughed up on the part of the airfield which is now farm land. No tool kits though

Very much doubt it, Does the article have a date of when around this is supposed to happen. No in the case of Bloodhound as the missile was never fitted with a Nuclear warhead. The camp did have RF radiation signs around the perimeter fence, but that was due to the open air microwave ovens operated there which were better known as Radars.