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    Just thought I'd have a look at how Britain would look after the nuclear strike, and what is likely to have survived.


    UK NUCLEAR TARGET LIST

    England: Aldershot, Barnsley, Bedford, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Bristol, Bury, Coventry, Derby, Dover, Folkestone, Gloucester, Grimsby, Hereford, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Luton, Manchester, Nottingham, Rochdale, Rotherham, Sheffield, Southampton, Stockport, Warrington, Wigan, Wolverhampton, Yeovil, York
    Scotland: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grangemouth
    Wales: Cardiff, Milford Haven, Newport, Port Talbot, Swansea

    Although Britain got a right pounding and the Soviets knocked out most of Britain"s major cities, industrial centres and oil refining capabilities, they didn"t get it all. British nuclear weapon and nuclear power capabilities were not directly targeted, and besides targeting Aldershot and Hereford they seem to have missed most British military bases. The British nuclear deterrent at Rosyth, the nuclear weapons factory at Aldermaston, and the nuclear submarine yard at Barrow were not targeted, or were the Royal Navy bases (Portsmouth, Devonport, Clyde). Some bases near cities that were nuked were indirectly destroyed or damaged, but many important ones such as Northwood HQ, Porton Down, Winterbourne-Gunner and RAF High Wycombe were not targeted, and most if not all RAF and USAF bases across Britain seem to have survived.

    Also some of Britain"s military industrial infrastructure would be intact. The British shipyards at Glasgow, Liverpool, Southampton and Bristol are all destroyed or heavily damaged, but the nuclear submarine yard at Barrow and major shipyards at Newcastle and Belfast have survived, as have repair docks at Middlesbrough and the naval bases in the south. The aerospace, military vehicle and small weapons industry would have been severely disrupted through the destruction of industry in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Gloucester, Leeds, Hull, Manchester, Nottingham, Liverpool, Sheffield and Southampton, while the Rolls Royce engine factory in Derby and the Westland helicopter plant at Yeovil were also targeted. However some industry has survived at Leicester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Preston, Samlesbury, Telford, Warton, Belfast, Alsager, Isle of Wight and at other locations.


    Oil Refineries
    England
    Coryton (Probable damage from nuclear strike on nearby London)
    Fawley (Destroyed)
    Humber (Damaged from nuclear strike on Grimsby but likely to be operational)
    Lindsey (Probably destroyed from nuclear strike on nearby Grimsby)
    Shell Haven (Probable damage from nuclear strike on London) (* Closed in 1999)
    Stanlow (Probable damage from nuclear strike on Liverpool)
    Teeside (Operational)
    Scotland
    Grangemouth (Destroyed)
    Wales
    Milford Haven (Destroyed)
    Pembroke (Possible damage from nuclear strike on South Wales but likely to be operational)

    Oil Storage Facilities
    England
    Eastham (Destroyed from nuclear strike on nearby Liverpool)
    Hertfordshire (Operational)
    Kingsbury (Possible damage from nuclear strike on nearby Grimsby but likely to be operational)
    Tranmere (Probable heavy damage from nuclear strike on nearby Liverpool)
    Shetland Islands
    Sullom Voe (Operational)
    Irish Sea
    Offshore Storage Installation (Operational)

    Oil Fields
    All British oil fields are located offshore in North Sea.

    Nuclear Power Stations
    England
    Berkeley (276mw) (England) (Decommissioned in 1989)
    Bradwell (246mw) (Operational)
    Dungeness A (450mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strikes on Dover & Folkestone but likely to be operational)
    Dungeness B (1,110mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strikes on Dover & Folkestone but likely to be operational)
    Hartlepool (1,210mw) (Operational)
    Hinkley Point A (470mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strike on Bristol but likely to be operational)
    Hinkley Point B (1,220mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strike on Bristol but likely to be operational)
    Heysham 1 (1,150mw) (Operational)
    Heysham 2 (1,250mw) (Operational)
    Oldbury (434mw) (Probable heavy damage from nuclear strikes on Bristol and Gloucester)
    Sizwell A (420mw) (Operational)
    Sizwell B (1,188mw) (Operational)
    Scotland
    Chapelcross (240mw) (Operational)
    Dounreay (250mw) (Scotland) (Decommissioned in 1994)
    Hunterston A (300mw) (Scotland) (Decommissioned in 1990)
    Hunterston B (1,190mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strike on Glasgow but probably operational)
    Torness (1,254mw) (Probably destroyed or heavily damaged from nuclear strike on Edinburgh)
    Wales
    Trawsfynydd (390mw) (Wales) (Decommissioned in 1991)
    Wylfa (980mw) (Operational)

    Nuclear Weapons & Reactor Factories
    England
    Aldermaston (Nuclear weapons design and manufacture) (Possible damage from nuclear strike on Aldershot but probably operational)
    Raynesway (Rolls Royce Marine Nuclear Fuel and Fabrication) (Destroyed from nuclear strike on Derby)

    Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing & Examination Facilities
    England
    Sellafield (Operational)
    Winfrith (Operational)

    Nuclear Research Reactors
    England
    Chilton (Rutherford-Appleton nuclear research laboratory) (Operational)
    Culham (Operational)
    Harwell (Operational)
    Greenwich (Decommissioned in 1991)
    London (UCL research reactor) (Destroyed)
    Risley (Decommissioned in 1991)



    UNITED KINGDOM
    ENGLAND
    GREATER LONDON (25 miles from central London)
    Nuclear Targets: London
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Dartford, Gravesend, Guilford, Maidenhead, Slough, Staines, Tilbury, Watford, Windsor, Woking and some London suburbs
    Airports: Gatwick (Destroyed), Heathrow (Damaged), London City (Destroyed)
    Nuclear Power Stations: None
    Nuclear Facilities: UCL Research Reactor (Destroyed)
    Oil Refineries: None
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: RAF Northolt, RAF West Drayton (Destroyed)
    Military Bases: London barracks destroyed or heavily damaged, Whitehall (Destroyed), Windsor Castle

    EAST OF ENGLAND
    Nuclear Targets: Bedford, Luton
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Basildon, Brentwood, Bury, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Felixstowe, Harlow, Harwich, Hemel Hempstead, Ipswich, Lowestoft, King"s Lynn, Norwich, Peterborough, Southend, St. Albans, Stevenage, Thurrock, Yarmouth
    Airports: Luton (Destroyed), Norwich, Peterborough, Southend, Stanstead
    Nuclear Power Stations: Bradwell
    Nuclear Facilities: None
    Oil Refineries: Coryton (Damaged), Shell Haven (Damaged)
    Oil Storage Facilities: Hertfordshire
    Air Bases: Bassingbourne, RAF Alconbury, RAF Barkway, RAF Brampton, RAF Feltwell, RAF Henlow, RAF Honington, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Marham, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Molesworth, RAF Stanbridge, RAF Upwood, RAF Wattisham, RAF Wittering, RAF Wyton
    Military Bases: Bury St. Edmunds, Carver, Chicksands, Colchester, Northwood HQ, Swanton Morley, Thetford

    SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND
    Nuclear Targets: Aldershot, Dover, Folkestone, Southampton
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Ashford, Andover, Aylesbury, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Brighton, Canterbury, Chatham, Cherwell, Chichester, Crawley, Eastbourne, Farnborough, Gillingham, Gosport, Guildford, Hastings, High Wycombe, Maidstone, Margate, Milton Keynes, Newhaven, Oxford, Portsmouth, Ramsgate, Reading, Sheerness, Sittingbourne, Swale, Tunbridge Wells, Winchester
    Airports: Manston, Shoreham, Southampton (Destroyed)
    Nuclear Power Stations: Dungeness A & B
    Nuclear Facilities: Aldermaston, Chilton, Culham, Harwell
    Oil Refineries: Fawley (Destroyed)
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: Andover, AAC Middle Wallop, Farnborough, RAF Benson, RAF Brize Norton, RAF Halton, RAF High Wycombe, RAF Oakhanger, RAF Odiham, RAF Welford, RAF Weston, RAF Woodley
    Naval Bases: Portsmouth, Sheerness
    Military Bases: Aldershot (Destroyed), Arborfield, Bicester, Bramley, Canterbury, Chatham, Longmoor, Pirbright, Reading, Sandhurst, Shorncliff, Thorney Island, Winchester, Worthy Down

    SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND
    Nuclear Targets: Bristol, Gloucester, Yeovil
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Bath, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Exeter, Poole, Plymouth, Salisbury, Swindon, Torbay, Weymouth
    Airports: Bournemouth, Bristol (Destroyed), Exeter, Gloucester (Destroyed), Newquay, Plymouth
    Nuclear Power Stations: Oldbury (Damaged), Hinkley Point A (Possible damage), Hinkley Point B (Possible damage)
    Nuclear Facilities: Winfrith
    Oil Refineries: None
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: AAC Netheravon, RAF Fairwood, RAF Lyneham, RAF St. Mawgan, RNAS Culdrose, RNAS Merryfield, RNAS Predannack, RNAS Yeovilton (Damaged)
    Naval Bases: Devonport
    Military Bases: Barnstable, Beachley, Blandford, Bovington, Bristol (Destroyed), Bulford, Cirencester, Corsham, Exeter, Fort Halstead, Fugglestone, Larkhill, Ludgershall, Norton Manor, Porton Down, Plymouth, RM Chivenor, Tidworth, Warminster, Winterbourne-Gunner

    EAST-MIDLANDS
    Nuclear Targets: Derby, Nottingham
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Boston, Corby, Grantham, Leicester, Lincoln, Kettering, Mansfield, Northampton, Wellingborough
    Airports: Castle Donington
    Nuclear Power Stations: None
    Nuclear Facilities: Raynesway (Destroyed)
    Oil Refineries: None
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: RAF Barkston Heath, RAF Coningsby, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Cranwell, RAF Croughton, RAF Digby, RAF Scampton, RAF Syerston, RAF Waddington
    Military Bases: Copthorne, Leicester, Nottingham (Destroyed), Shewsbury

    WEST-MIDLANDS
    Nuclear Targets: Birmingham, Coventry, Hereford, Wolverhampton
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Burton, Dudley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Nuneaton, Redditch, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Stoke, Stratford, Tamworth, Telford, Warwick, Worcester
    Airports: Birmingham (Destroyed), Coventry (Destroyed)
    Nuclear Power Stations: None
    Nuclear Facilities: None
    Oil Refineries: None
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: RAF Cosford, RAF Shawbury, RAF Stafford
    Military Bases: Donington, Dudley, Hereford (Destroyed), Lichfield, Redditch, Telford, Ternhill, Wolverhampton (Destroyed)

    YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER
    Nuclear Targets: Barnsley, Grimsby, Hull, Greater Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield, York
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Doncaster, Halifax, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Immingham, Scunthorpe, Wakefield
    Airports: Doncaster (Damaged), Humberside, Leeds (Destroyed)
    Nuclear Power Stations: None
    Nuclear Facilities: None
    Oil Refineries: Humber (Damaged), Lindsey (Destroyed)
    Oil Storage Facilities: Kingsbury (Damaged)
    Air Bases: RAF Dishforth, RAF Holmpton, RAF Leconfield
    Military Bases: Catterick, Fulford, Hillsborough (Destroyed), Hull (Destroyed), Pudsey, Sheffield (Destroyed), York (Destroyed)

    NORTH-EAST ENGLAND
    Nuclear Targets: None
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Stockton, Sunderland
    Airports: Durham-Tees, Newcastle
    Nuclear Power Stations: Hartlepool
    Nuclear Facilities: None
    Oil Refineries: Teeside
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: RAF Boulmer, RAF Church Fenton, RAF Flyngdales, RAF Leeming, RAF Linton-on-Ouse, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Topcliffe
    Military Bases: Durham, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Otterburn, Stockton

    NORTH-WEST ENGLAND
    Nuclear Targets: Blackburn, Bolton, Bury, Greater Liverpool, Greater Manchester, Rochdale, Stockport, Warrington, Wigan
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Barrow, Birkenhead (Damaged), Blackpool, Bootle, Burnley, Carlisle, Chester, Crewe, Ellesmere Port (Damaged), Fleetwood, Lancaster, Preston, Southport
    Airports: Blackpool, Liverpool (Destroyed), Manchester (Destroyed)
    Nuclear Power Stations: Heysham 1 & 2, Sizwell A & B
    Nuclear Facilities: Sellafield
    Oil Refineries: Stanlow (Damaged)
    Oil Storage Facilities: Eastham (Destroyed), Tranmere (Damaged), Offshore Storage Installation
    Air Bases: RAF Woodvale
    Military Bases: Chester, Preston, Warcop, Weeton, Wigan (Destroyed)

    SCOTLAND
    CENTRAL LOWLANDS & BORDER
    Nuclear Targets: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grangemouth
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Cairnryan, East Kilbride, Livingston, Paisley, Perth, Stirling
    Airports: Aberdeen (Destroyed), Campbeltown, Dundee (Destroyed), Edinburgh (Destroyed), Glasgow (Destroyed), Perth, Prestwick
    Nuclear Power Stations: Chapelcross, Hunterston B (Possible damage), Torness (Damaged)
    Nuclear Facilities: None
    Oil Refineries: Grangemouth (Destroyed)
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: RAF Buchan, RAF Leuchars,
    Naval Bases: Clyde, Rosyth
    Military Bases: Ayr, Barry Buddon, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dundee (Destroyed), Glasgow (Destroyed), Edinburgh Castle (Damaged), Forfar, Garelochhead, Penicuik, Perth, RM Condor, Stirling

    HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS
    Nuclear Targets: None
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Inverness, Kirkwall
    Airports: Inverness, Islay, Kirkwall, Scatsta, Stornoway, Sumburgh, Wick
    Nuclear Power Stations: None
    Nuclear Facilities: None
    Oil Refineries: None
    Oil Storage Facilities: Sullom Voe
    Air Bases: RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Kinloss
    Naval Bases: Loch Ewe
    Military Bases: Fort George, Inverness, Peterhead

    WALES
    Nuclear Targets: Cardiff, Milford Haven, Newport, Port Talbot, Swansea
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Barry, Holyhead, Rhonda
    Airports: Cardiff (Destroyed), Hawarden
    Nuclear Power Stations: Wylfa
    Nuclear Facilities: None
    Oil Refineries: Milford Haven (Destroyed), Pembroke (Damaged)
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: RAF St. Athan, RAF Sealand, RAF Valley
    Military Bases: Cardiff (Destroyed), Sennybridge

    NORTHERN IRELAND
    Nuclear Targets: None
    Surviving Towns and Ports: Bangor, Belfast, Castlereagh, Craigavon, Derry, Larne, Lisburn, Newtownabbey
    Airports: Belfast, Derry, Langford Lodge
    Nuclear Power Stations: None
    Nuclear Facilities: None
    Oil Refineries: None
    Oil Storage Facilities: None
    Air Bases: RAF Aldergrove, RAF Bishopscourt
    Military Bases: Balykinler, Ballykelly, Ballymena, Belfast, Derry, Holywood, Lisburn, Omagh, Portadown

  • #2
    Hi RN,

    Great work. Just one question - What about RAF Greenham Common. I think the Soviets would have hit it just to make sure all the GLCMs were put out of commission. JMO

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    • #3
      Looks great to me, but I hope you don't mind a couple if minor suggestions regarding Northern Ireland. Castlereagh, which is where I live, and Newtownabbey are both essentially suburbs of Belfast, rather than towns in their own right, and Langford Lodge hasn't existed as an Airport for years. You could add Newtownards airfield, a small WW2 airfield now in use as a civilian airfield, St Angelo outside Enniskillen, another WW2 strip now in civvy hands. Also, Belfast actually has 2 airports, the George Best Airport at Sydenham in East Belfast, which would still have been called the City Airport in 2000, its a smaller airport capable of handling anything up to a 737, and the main international airport at Aldergrove, capable of handling 747's etc. Aldergrove is 20 or so miles out of Belfast towards Lough Neagh and Antrim. Another port to consider would be Warrenpoint on the border on Carlingford Lough.

      I like the work you're doing and please don't take this as a criticism, just a local perspective
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      • #5
        RN7, that's a cracking piece of analysis - very, very well done.

        One minor point - the UK does have one onshore oil field, which is operated by BP and located at Wytch Farm in Dorset (relatively close to Bovington Camp).



        Also, and again from a local point of view (I grew up about five miles from Rosyth) the nuclear deterrent was based on the Clyde - the subs themeselves were (indeed still are) at Faslane, whilst warheads were kept at Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD) Coulport, approx ten miles away. The US Navy had a separate facility at Holy Loch which was closed in 1992 IRL.

        The Subs did go to Rosyth for any refitting that was required until the mid 1990's IRL (when the work moved to Devonport, but that's a whole other story...)

        Also, you may want to include Boscombe Down in the list of air bases in South West England (I did have a look, and didn't see it mentioned, although I may have missed it)



        Like Tigger said, please don't take any of that as a criticism - I genuinely think what you've put together is an oustanding piece of work - well done.
        Last edited by Rainbow Six; 01-05-2011, 05:50 AM.
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        • #6
          I noticed you said "Greater Leeds" as someone who lives about 10 miles from Leeds, care to clarify that, as under the same name, Wakefield would be a nuclear dead zone as well.

          Also, you missed off retired RAF Elvington, old WWII bomber base, still looked after as its a museum now, but it was officially closed in 1992, which with T2K, I doubt that the RAF would have closed her down with a major war on the horizon.


          Also RAF Leeming is actually in Yorkshire itself, so it depends how you want to divvy up "Yorkshire" and "North East" on your maps.
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          • #8
            Originally posted by stilleto69 View Post
            Hi RN,

            Great work. Just one question - What about RAF Greenham Common. I think the Soviets would have hit it just to make sure all the GLCMs were put out of commission. JMO
            Hi Stilleto,

            I admit I missed a few bases, although some were deliberat as they are little more than grass airfields or radar stations. I did miss Greenham Common however, but accoring to GDW so did the Soviets!

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            • #9
              Originally posted by TiggerCCW UK View Post
              Looks great to me, but I hope you don't mind a couple if minor suggestions regarding Northern Ireland. Castlereagh, which is where I live, and Newtownabbey are both essentially suburbs of Belfast, rather than towns in their own right, and Langford Lodge hasn't existed as an Airport for years. You could add Newtownards airfield, a small WW2 airfield now in use as a civilian airfield, St Angelo outside Enniskillen, another WW2 strip now in civvy hands. Also, Belfast actually has 2 airports, the George Best Airport at Sydenham in East Belfast, which would still have been called the City Airport in 2000, its a smaller airport capable of handling anything up to a 737, and the main international airport at Aldergrove, capable of handling 747's etc. Aldergrove is 20 or so miles out of Belfast towards Lough Neagh and Antrim. Another port to consider would be Warrenpoint on the border on Carlingford Lough.

              I like the work you're doing and please don't take this as a criticism, just a local perspective
              Hi Tigger,

              I'm also from Ireland, although the southern part. Castlereagh and Newtonabbey are typos. I used the stats for cities over 50,000 people but I was in a rush finishing off Northern Ireland so I missed that. St. Angelo and the others are airfields and there are dozens across Britain and Ireland that I didn't include. But I believe Ryanair were recently interested in using Langford Lodge, so I surmised that it would have been capable of flying military aircraft if they could use their aircraft from it. I wasn't sure about the status of George Best Airport at this time. I knew it wasn't a full sized airport and that Shorts had a factory on its grounds. But with the proximity of Belfast International and Aldergrove I just ommited it.

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              • #10
                Originally posted by Rainbow Six View Post
                RN7, that's a cracking piece of analysis - very, very well done.

                One minor point - the UK does have one onshore oil field, which is operated by BP and located at Wytch Farm in Dorset (relatively close to Bovington Camp).



                Also, and again from a local point of view (I grew up about five miles from Rosyth) the nuclear deterrent was based on the Clyde - the subs themeselves were (indeed still are) at Faslane, whilst warheads were kept at Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD) Coulport, approx ten miles away. The US Navy had a separate facility at Holy Loch which was closed in 1992 IRL.

                The Subs did go to Rosyth for any refitting that was required until the mid 1990's IRL (when the work moved to Devonport, but that's a whole other story...)

                Also, you may want to include Boscombe Down in the list of air bases in South West England (I did have a look, and didn't see it mentioned, although I may have missed it)



                Like Tigger said, please don't take any of that as a criticism - I genuinely think what you've put together is an oustanding piece of work - well done.

                Hi Rainbow Six,

                There are a few things I missed as there is so much to include, Boscome Down and Wytch Farm are a few of them and I will update them. The nuclear deterent is a funny thing. The subs were probably at sea most of the time, but were moored at Clyde/Faslane, maintained at Rosyth, and the warheads were stored at Coulport. Only the British would do this . However the Soviets missed Rosyth, Clyde and Coulport in any case. I didn't include Holy Loch as its an American facility, although I would say it would have been still used at this time.

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                • #11
                  Hi RN7,

                  I knew you were from here as well - what part are you in No problems on the typos - I'm more than guilty of those myself by times I know there are a load of other airfields kicking around, but Ards and St Angelo are two of the bigger and busier ones I know of, plus there used to be an regular army/UDR base at St Angelo, which would probably still be there in the Twilight world.

                  I wasn't aware of Ryanairs interest in Langford, and I just looked at it on googlemaps, and I have to say I didn't realise the runways etc were either so big or so well maintained - I can definitely see it being brought into use as an airfield in T2K.

                  George Best/City Airport has been a fairly major facility for years - I can remember a weather recon Canberra flying from it when I was wee, and I think they assembled and serviced F86 Sabres there when the RAF was operating them. I know they flew Buccaneers in and out of there for maintenance as well - my brother can remember one of them crashing in 1972 and one of the ejecting crew landed in the park at the bottom of my mum and dads street. I reckon it could well be in use as an airbase in T2K as well.

                  Keep up the good work
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                  • #12
                    Originally posted by LBraden View Post
                    I noticed you said "Greater Leeds" as someone who lives about 10 miles from Leeds, care to clarify that, as under the same name, Wakefield would be a nuclear dead zone as well.

                    Also, you missed off retired RAF Elvington, old WWII bomber base, still looked after as its a museum now, but it was officially closed in 1992, which with T2K, I doubt that the RAF would have closed her down with a major war on the horizon.


                    Also RAF Leeming is actually in Yorkshire itself, so it depends how you want to divvy up "Yorkshire" and "North East" on your maps.
                    Hi LBraden,

                    Is Wakefield not a city in its own right Bradford could be considered part of Greater Leeds by some measurements but got its very own nuke (although I forgot to incude it), and probably Halifax and Huddersfield as well, but they are still seperarte cities.

                    I wasn't sure about the status of RAF Elvington. What facilities are at Elvington and what type and size are its runway

                    RAF Leeming is in Yorkshire and that's a typo.

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                    • #13
                      Originally posted by TiggerCCW UK View Post
                      Hi RN7,

                      I knew you were from here as well - what part are you in No problems on the typos - I'm more than guilty of those myself by times I know there are a load of other airfields kicking around, but Ards and St Angelo are two of the bigger and busier ones I know of, plus there used to be an regular army/UDR base at St Angelo, which would probably still be there in the Twilight world.

                      I wasn't aware of Ryanairs interest in Langford, and I just looked at it on googlemaps, and I have to say I didn't realise the runways etc were either so big or so well maintained - I can definitely see it being brought into use as an airfield in T2K.

                      George Best/City Airport has been a fairly major facility for years - I can remember a weather recon Canberra flying from it when I was wee, and I think they assembled and serviced F86 Sabres there when the RAF was operating them. I know they flew Buccaneers in and out of there for maintenance as well - my brother can remember one of them crashing in 1972 and one of the ejecting crew landed in the park at the bottom of my mum and dads street. I reckon it could well be in use as an airbase in T2K as well.

                      Keep up the good work

                      I'm from Dublin.

                      There seems to be a lot of spare air capacity in Northern Ireland, but how much of it would be used in T2K. RAF and British military usage seems to be restricted to helicopters and the odd fixed wing transport or recon aircraft.

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                      • #14
                        Originally posted by RN7 View Post
                        Hi Rainbow Six,

                        There are a few things I missed as there is so much to include
                        Hi RN7

                        There certainly is, and I'd just stress again that I think you've done an absolutely outstanding job creating such a comprehensive listing.

                        Cheers
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                        • #15
                          Part III

                          UK NUCLEAR TARGET LIST

                          England: Aldershot, Barnsley, Bedford, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Bury, Coventry, Derby, Dover, Folkestone, Gloucester, Grimsby, Hereford, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Luton, Manchester, Nottingham, Rochdale, Rotherham, Sheffield, Southampton, Stockport, Warrington, Wigan, Wolverhampton, Yeovil, York
                          Scotland: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grangemouth
                          Wales: Cardiff, Milford Haven, Newport, Port Talbot, Swansea

                          Although Britain got a right pounding and the Soviets knocked out most of Britain's major cities, industrial centres and oil refining capabilities, they didn't get it all. British nuclear weapon and nuclear power capabilities were not directly targeted, and besides targeting Aldershot and Hereford they seem to have missed most British military bases. The British nuclear deterrent at Rosyth, the nuclear weapons factory at Aldermaston, and the nuclear submarine yard at Barrow were not targeted, or were the Royal Navy bases (Portsmouth, Devonport, Clyde). Some bases near cities that were nuked were indirectly destroyed or damaged, but many important ones such as Northwood HQ, Porton Down, Winterbourne-Gunner and RAF High Wycombe were not targeted, and most if not all RAF and USAF bases across Britain seem to have survived.

                          Also some of Britain's military industrial infrastructure would be intact. The British shipyards at Glasgow, Liverpool, Southampton and Bristol are all destroyed or heavily damaged, but the nuclear submarine yard at Barrow and major shipyards at Newcastle and Belfast have survived, as have repair docks at Middlesbrough and the naval bases in the south. The aerospace, military vehicle and small weapons industry would have been severely disrupted through the destruction of industry in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Gloucester, Leeds, Hull, Manchester, Nottingham, Liverpool, Sheffield and Southampton, while the Rolls Royce engine factory in Derby and the Westland helicopter plant at Yeovil were also targeted. However some industry has survived at Leicester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Preston, Samlesbury, Telford, Warton, Belfast, Alsager, Isle of Wight and at other locations.


                          Oil Refineries
                          England
                          Coryton (Probable damage from nuclear strike on nearby London)
                          Fawley (Destroyed)
                          Humber (Damaged from nuclear strike on Grimsby but likely to be operational)
                          Lindsey (Probably destroyed from nuclear strike on nearby Grimsby)
                          Shell Haven (Probable damage from nuclear strike on London) (* Closed in 1999)
                          Stanlow (Probable damage from nuclear strike on Liverpool)
                          Teeside (Operational)
                          Scotland
                          Grangemouth (Destroyed)
                          Wales
                          Milford Haven (Destroyed)
                          Pembroke (Possible damage from nuclear strike on South Wales but likely to be operational)

                          Oil Storage Facilities
                          England
                          Eastham (Destroyed from nuclear strike on nearby Liverpool)
                          Hertfordshire (Operational)
                          Kingsbury (Possible damage from nuclear strike on nearby Grimsby but likely to be operational)
                          Tranmere (Probable heavy damage from nuclear strike on nearby Liverpool)
                          Shetland Islands
                          Sullom Voe (Operational)
                          Irish Sea
                          Offshore Storage Installation (Operational)

                          Oil Fields
                          All British oil fields are located offshore in North Sea, except for Wytch Farm in Dorset.

                          Nuclear Power Stations
                          England
                          Berkeley (276mw) (Decommissioned in 1989)
                          Bradwell (246mw) (Operational)
                          Dungeness A (450mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strikes on Dover & Folkestone but likely to be operational)
                          Dungeness B (1,110mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strikes on Dover & Folkestone but likely to be operational)
                          Hartlepool (1,210mw) (Operational)
                          Hinkley Point A (470mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strike on Bristol but likely to be operational)
                          Hinkley Point B (1,220mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strike on Bristol but likely to be operational)
                          Heysham 1 (1,150mw) (Operational)
                          Heysham 2 (1,250mw) (Operational)
                          Oldbury (434mw) (Probable heavy damage from nuclear strikes on Bristol and Gloucester)
                          Sizwell A (420mw) (Operational)
                          Sizwell B (1,188mw) (Operational)
                          Scotland
                          Chapelcross (240mw) (Operational)
                          Dounreay (250mw) (Decommissioned in 1994)
                          Hunterston A (300mw) (Decommissioned in 1990)
                          Hunterston B (1,190mw) (Possible damage from nuclear strike on Glasgow but probably operational)
                          Torness (1,254mw) (Probably destroyed or heavily damaged from nuclear strike on Edinburgh)
                          Wales
                          Trawsfynydd (390mw) (Decommissioned in 1991)
                          Wylfa (980mw) (Operational)

                          Nuclear Weapons & Reactor Factories
                          England
                          Aldermaston (Nuclear weapons design and manufacture) (Possible damage from nuclear strike on Aldershot but probably operational)
                          Burghfield (Nuclear weapons assembly) (Operational)
                          Raynesway (Rolls Royce Marine Nuclear Fuel and Fabrication) (Destroyed from nuclear strike on Derby)

                          Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing & Examination Facilities
                          England
                          Capenhurst (Operational)
                          Sellafield (Operational)
                          Winfrith (Operational)

                          Nuclear Research Reactors
                          England
                          Chilton (Rutherford-Appleton nuclear research laboratory) (Operational)
                          Culham (Operational)
                          Harwell (Operational)
                          Greenwich (Decommissioned in 1991)
                          London (UCL research reactor) (Destroyed)
                          Risley (Decommissioned in 1991)



                          UNITED KINGDOM
                          ENGLAND
                          GREATER LONDON (25 miles from central London)
                          Nuclear Targets: London
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Dartford, Gravesend, Guilford, Maidenhead, Slough, Staines, Tilbury, Watford, Windsor, Woking and some London suburbs
                          Airports: Biggin Hill (Damaged), Gatwick (Destroyed), Heathrow (Damaged), London City (Destroyed)
                          Nuclear Power Stations: None
                          Nuclear Facilities: UCL Research Reactor (Destroyed)
                          Oil Refineries: None
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: RAF Northolt
                          Military Bases: London barracks destroyed or heavily damaged, RAF West Drayton (Destroyed), Whitehall (Destroyed), Windsor Castle

                          EAST OF ENGLAND
                          Nuclear Targets: Bedford, Luton
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Bury, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Felixstowe, Harlow, Harwich, Hemel Hempstead, Ipswich, Lowestoft, King's Lynn, Norwich, Peterborough, Southend, St. Albans, Stevenage, Thurrock, Yarmouth
                          Airports: Cranfield, Luton (Destroyed), North Weald, Norwich, Peterborough, Southend, Stanstead
                          Nuclear Power Stations: Bradwell
                          Nuclear Facilities: None
                          Oil Refineries: Coryton (Damaged), Shell Haven (Damaged)
                          Oil Storage Facilities: Hertfordshire
                          Air Bases: Bassingbourne, RAF Alconbury, RAF Barkway, RAF Brampton, RAF Coltishall, RAF Feltwell, RAF Henlow, RAF Honington, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Marham, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Molesworth, RAF Sculthorpe, RAF Stanbridge, RAF Upwood, RAF Wattisham, RAF Wittering, RAF Wyton, Wethersfield
                          Military Bases: Bury St. Edmunds, Carver, Chicksands, Colchester, Debden, Luton (Destroyed), Northwood HQ, Peterborough, Stanford, Swanton Morley, Thetford

                          SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND
                          Nuclear Targets: Aldershot, Dover, Folkestone, Southampton
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Ashford, Andover, Aylesbury, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Brighton, Canterbury, Chatham, Cherwell, Chichester, Crawley, Eastbourne, Farnborough, Gillingham, Gosport, Hastings, High Wycombe, Maidstone, Margate, Milton Keynes, Newhaven, Oxford, Portsmouth, Ramsgate, Reading, Sheerness, Sittingbourne, Swale, Tunbridge Wells, Winchester
                          Airports: Bembridge, Lydd, Manston, Membury, Oxford, Shoreham, Southampton (Destroyed)
                          Nuclear Power Stations: Dungeness A & B
                          Nuclear Facilities: Aldermaston, Burghfield, Chilton, Culham, Harwell
                          Oil Refineries: Fawley (Destroyed)
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: Andover, AAC Middle Wallop, Farnborough, RAF Benson, RAF Brize Norton, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Halton,RAF Oakhanger, RAF Odiham, RAF Welford, RAF Weston, RAF Woodley
                          Naval Bases: Portsmouth, Sheerness
                          Military Bases: Abingdon, Aldershot (Destroyed), Arborfield, Bicester, Bordon, Bramley, Canterbury, Chatham, Didcot, Dover (Destroyed), Longmoor, Milton Keynes, Newbury, Pirbright, Reading, RAF High Wycombe, Sandhurst, Shorncliff, Thorney Island, Winchester, Worthy Down

                          SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND
                          Nuclear Targets: Bristol, Gloucester, Yeovil
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Bath, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Exeter, Poole, Plymouth, Salisbury, Swindon, Torbay, Weymouth
                          Airports: Bournemouth, Bristol (Destroyed), Dunkeswell, Exeter, Gloucester (Destroyed), Plymouth, St. Marys (Scilly)
                          Nuclear Power Stations: Oldbury (Damaged), Hinkley Point A (Possible damage), Hinkley Point B (Possible damage)
                          Nuclear Facilities: Winfrith
                          Oil Refineries: None
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: AAC Netheravon, Boscombe Down, RAF Fairwood, RAF Lyneham, RAF St. Mawgan, RNAS Culdrose, RNAS Merryfield, RNAS Predannack, RNAS Yeovilton (Damaged)
                          Naval Bases: Devonport
                          Military Bases: Barnstable, Beachley, Blandford, Bovington, Bristol (Destroyed), Bulford, Cirencester, Corsham, Exeter, Fort Halstead, Fugglestone, Larkhill, Ludgershall, Lympstone, Norton Manor, Porton Down, Plymouth, RM Chivenor, Tidworth, Warminster, Wilton, Winterbourne-Gunner

                          EAST-MIDLANDS
                          Nuclear Targets: Derby, Nottingham
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Boston, Corby, Grantham, Leicester, Lincoln, Kettering, Mansfield, Northampton, Rutland, Wellingborough
                          Airports: Bruntingthorpe, Castle Donington, Nottingham (Destroyed)
                          Nuclear Power Stations: None
                          Nuclear Facilities: Raynesway (Destroyed)
                          Oil Refineries: None
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: RAF Barkston Heath, RAF Binbrook, RAF Coningsby, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Cranwell, RAF Croughton, RAF Digby, RAF Scampton, RAF Syerston, RAF Waddington
                          Military Bases: Chilwell (Damaged), Copthorne, Leicester, Nottingham (Destroyed), Rutland, Shewsbury

                          WEST-MIDLANDS
                          Nuclear Targets: Birmingham, Coventry, Hereford, Wolverhampton
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Burton, Dudley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Nuneaton, Redditch, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Stoke, Stratford, Tamworth, Telford, Warwick, Worcester
                          Airports: Birmingham (Destroyed), Coventry (Destroyed), Wolverhampton (Destroyed)
                          Nuclear Power Stations: None
                          Nuclear Facilities: None
                          Oil Refineries: None
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: RAF Cosford, RAF Shawbury, RAF Stafford, RAF Ternhill
                          Military Bases: Donington, Dudley, Hereford (Destroyed), Lichfield, Redditch, Shrewsbury, Telford, Ternhill, Wolverhampton (Destroyed)

                          YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER
                          Nuclear Targets: Barnsley, Bradford, Grimsby, Hull, Greater Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield, York
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Doncaster, Halifax, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Immingham, Scarborough, Scunthorpe, Wakefield
                          Airports: Brough, Doncaster (Damaged), Humberside (Damaged), Leeds (Destroyed)
                          Nuclear Power Stations: None
                          Nuclear Facilities: None
                          Oil Refineries: Humber (Damaged), Lindsey (Destroyed)
                          Oil Storage Facilities: Kingsbury (Damaged)
                          Air Bases: RAF Dishforth, RAF Holmpton, RAF Leconfield, RAF Leeming, RAF Topcliffe
                          Military Bases: Catterick, Fulford, Hillsborough (Destroyed), Hull (Destroyed), Kirton, Pontefract, Pudsey, Ripon, Sheffield (Destroyed), York (Destroyed)

                          NORTH-EAST ENGLAND
                          Nuclear Targets: None
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Stockton, Sunderland
                          Airports: Newcastle, Teeside International
                          Nuclear Power Stations: Hartlepool
                          Nuclear Facilities: None
                          Oil Refineries: Teeside
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: RAF Boulmer, RAF Church Fenton, RAF Flyngdales, RAF Linton-on-Ouse, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Topcliffe
                          Military Bases: Durham, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Otterburn, Stockton

                          NORTH-WEST ENGLAND
                          Nuclear Targets: Blackburn, Bolton, Bury, Greater Liverpool, Greater Manchester, Rochdale, Stockport, Warrington, Wigan
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Barrow, Birkenhead (Damaged), Blackpool, Bootle, Burnley, Carlisle, Chester, Chorley, Crewe, Ellesmere Port (Damaged), Fleetwood, Lancaster, Leyland, Macclesfield, Morcambe, Preston, Southport
                          Airports: Barrow, Blackpool, Carlisle, Liverpool (Destroyed), Manchester (Destroyed), Warton, Woodford
                          Nuclear Power Stations: Heysham 1 & 2, Sizwell A & B
                          Nuclear Facilities: Capenhurst, Sellafield
                          Oil Refineries: Stanlow (Damaged)
                          Oil Storage Facilities: Eastham (Destroyed), Tranmere (Damaged), Offshore Storage Installation
                          Air Bases: RAF Woodvale
                          Military Bases: Blackpool, Bolton (Destroyed), Chester, Manchester (Destroyed), Preston, Warcop, Warrington, Weeton, Wigan (Destroyed)

                          SCOTLAND
                          CENTRAL LOWLANDS & BORDER
                          Nuclear Targets: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grangemouth
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Cairnryan, Dumfries, Dunfermline, East Kilbride, Falkirk, Glenrothes, Hamilton (Damaged), Irving, Livingston, Paisley, Perth, Stirling
                          Airports: Aberdeen (Destroyed), Campbeltown, Dundee (Destroyed), Edinburgh (Destroyed), Glasgow (Destroyed), Perth, Prestwick
                          Nuclear Power Stations: Chapelcross, Hunterston B (Possible damage), Torness (Damaged)
                          Nuclear Facilities: None
                          Oil Refineries: Grangemouth (Destroyed)
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: RAF Buchan, RAF Leuchars,
                          Naval Bases: Clyde, Rosyth
                          Military Bases: Ayr, Barry Buddon, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dundee (Destroyed), Dunfermline, Glasgow (Destroyed), Edinburgh Castle (Damaged), Forfar, Garelochhead, Penicuik, Perth, RM Condor, Stirling

                          HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS
                          Nuclear Targets: None
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Inverness, Kirkwall
                          Airports: Benbecula, Inverness, Islay, Kirkwall, Scatsta, Stornoway, Sumburgh, Wick
                          Nuclear Power Stations: None
                          Nuclear Facilities: None
                          Oil Refineries: None
                          Oil Storage Facilities: Sullom Voe
                          Air Bases: RAF Campbeltown, RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Kinloss
                          Naval Bases: Loch Ewe
                          Military Bases: Fort George, Inverness, Peterhead

                          WALES
                          Nuclear Targets: Cardiff, Milford Haven, Newport, Port Talbot, Swansea
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Barry, Holyhead, Rhonda
                          Airports: Cardiff (Destroyed), Hawarden, Swansea (Destroyed)
                          Nuclear Power Stations: Wylfa
                          Nuclear Facilities: None
                          Oil Refineries: Milford Haven (Destroyed), Pembroke (Damaged)
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: RAF St. Athan, RAF Sealand, RAF Valley
                          Military Bases: Brecon, Cardiff (Destroyed), Chepstow, Newport (Destroyed), Sennybridge, Wrexham

                          NORTHERN IRELAND
                          Nuclear Targets: None
                          Surviving Towns and Ports: Bangor, Belfast, Craigavon, Derry, Larne, Lisburn
                          Airports: Belfast International, Belfast City, Derry, Langford Lodge
                          Nuclear Power Stations: None
                          Nuclear Facilities: None
                          Oil Refineries: None
                          Oil Storage Facilities: None
                          Air Bases: RAF Aldergrove, RAF Bishopscourt
                          Military Bases: Balykinler, Ballykelly, Ballymena, Belfast, Derry, Holywood, Lisburn, Omagh, Portadown
                          Last edited by RN7; 01-20-2011, 03:11 AM.

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