The Deep Sea Range is an RAF missile range in the Outer Hebrides. It has also been known as the Hebrides Guided Weapon Range and the South Uist Missile Range.
Deep Sea Range
South Uist Missile Range, Hebrides Range
Scotland
Radar installation for missile tracking at Mullach Mòr on Hirta, part of St Kilda, in April 2009
The site was built in 1957 by the Ministry of Defence to test nuclear missiles.[1] Opposition to the construction of the range resulted in the novel Rockets Galore!, by Sir Compton Mackenzie, which was made into a film, filmed on the island of Barra.
Tracking station on St Kilda in August 2006
Resistance to the building of the range also led to the construction of the religious monument Our Lady of the Isles.
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It is situated in the Outer Hebrides on South Uist. The missiles are tracked from St Kilda, Scotland, a now uninhabited island, which is now leased by the Ministry of Defence. The site is run by QinetiQ, a privatised former division of the MoD.
Around 230 people work across all sites of the range.
^. Archived from the original on 4 October 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
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Hebrides Missile Range
January 01, 1970
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