Friday, 9 August 2024

Pembrokeshire's Proposed 'Space Attack' Protection?

Despite local opposition, 27 radar dishes are planned by the MOD for St David's peninsula in Pembrokeshire (Wales). This development would be part of an Aukus (the defence partnership between Australia, the UK and the USA) gound-based radars in the three countries. The Welsh component is termed the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (Darc). It's intended to monitor, track and identify objects more than 22,000 miles from Earth. It could, consequently, it's claimed, protect the UK from 'space warfare' (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/08/plans-deep-space-radar-site-wales-go-ahead). As traditional, proponents of Darc, claim it will secure valuable jobs in the area. Opponents, conversely, claim it will be "one of the most health-hazardous, tourism-ruining, skyline blighting military installations ever proposed anywhere in the UK". The 'valuable jobs' will, of course, be army jobs whereas the opponents are dependent on farming and tourism.

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Birder's Bonus 241

Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.