RAF Spadeadam, located in Cumbria, is the only Electronic Warfare Tactics facility in Europe where aircrews can practise manoeuvres and tactics against a variety of threats and targets that they face in contemporary warfare.
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The facility attracts aircraft from the RAF, Royal Navy, British Army and NATO Forces. The survival of aircrews over Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, and the soldiers on the ground who depend on air support, are affected by the training provided by RAF Spadeadam.
RAF Spadeadam is the largest RAF Station (by land area) covering 9600 acres, and run by a small team of RAF personnel, civil servants and contractors.
RAF Spadeadam's first connection with modern defence came in the late 1950s when it was chosen as the site of the test establishment for the 'Blue Streak', Britain's intended Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). Because of this work Spadeadam was given an ICAO code, but in reality there is no active runway on the site, just a simulated airfield with Cold War Soviet jets parked on it and a simulated SAM site.
In 1960 the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile programme was cancelled but the project was immediately replaced by the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), in which Britain joined with France and Germany to provide a European alternative to the American and Russian monopoly on satellite launchers.
The RAF took the site over in 1976 and it became Europe's first Electronic Warfare Tactics Range in 1977. The site continues to be used in training the Royal Air Force and NATO allied aircrew in Electronic Warfare (EW). It also hosts other exercising forces such as JFACTSU Forward Air Controller Training delivered from RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire. Close Air Support (CAS) training is carried out too. Since 2006, this has been the only mainland UK location where aircrews can drop practice bombs.
In July 2021, RAF Spadeadam was used to conduct drone swarm trials; a first for the British Armed Forces.
4 months ago
XAMBUSH1X
Thanks for the scenery, it features in my video https://youtu.be/15Zjujwx_SI
Enjoy !
2 years ago
wanchaibanzai
Wonderful, Thanks for approving and making RAF Spadeadam. This route is part of the FlyUK tour that I started back in 2019 for FSX & P3D and can't complete it since all sims had no scenery for it, up until now 😊 for MSFS. I now can get this FlyUK WW2 tour completed.
2 years ago
Empire
wish the file the community folder had a name
2 years ago
jvortiz56
i hate this place with every fiber of my body. If i ever have to go back there I think id probably die of sadness. It sucks the soul out of you and makes you wish you chose any other career. Thanks but no thanks 😋
2 years ago
foxtrotostrich