Talk:RAF Machrihanish

message: Inaccuracies, POV... For starters the "massive" runway for sure isn't. In reality it is shorter than Heathrow's and well down the pecking league. Until fairly recently the HIAL website had the same claim (only recently watered down, but still OTT). wangi 01:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccuracies  

message: The RAF still call it RAF Machrihanish on their website.  --jmb 00:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: MOD Machrihanish ?

message: I've added the Navy SEAL unit identification and the unit strength. I did not put down that this unit had the Small Atomic Demolition Munition as part of its arsenal because I cannot confirm it. But it was always widely rumored that this base stockpiled these U.S. man-portable nuclear weapons.Lastcharlie 16:08, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Fortress Scotland it was NSWU 2 that was based at Machrihanish but it is probable that various units used it.  Also USN MMAG Det 2 according to the same source.  --jmb 16:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: SEAL ID Added

message: I agree about deleting most of the speculation, the more it appears then the more it is believed by some.  I think the reply about USN pulling out in 1995 was purely the storage facility there, they were never involved in the operation of the airfield.  The fact that an airfield is used for occasional exercises does not prove any dark purpose behind it, many others are used especially during the old JMC / present day Neptune Warrior.  --jmb 01:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I visited Macrihanish when I was with the ATC, and the US base was pretty far away from the runway and the whole compound looked fairly isolated from the RAF buildings.  Overall though, the whole base was pretty sparse, it wasn't exactly a hive of activity, like say RAF Finningley used to be.  As far as I know, the runway was used by NATO aircraft as well as civil, but that's not an uncommon thing in military airfields. Douglasnicol 15:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Speculation

message: While this site may not be POV, it's ironic that this version of a wiki seems to have more information, and be better overall about Macrihanish
http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/RAFMachrihanish
Good page overall Douglasnicol 17:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Irony about info

message: Local Newspapers often run stories of local people old enough to remember the brilliant flashes of intensely strong light that lit up the night sky around Machrihanish. There was also rumours of testing of Nuclear Depth Charges being tested in the waters around the base. Locals accuse the M.O.D. of being unhelpful in dealing with enquiries about the Nuclear Tests if there were any. The M..O.D. has owned up to many Operations which it formally denied, so there seems little to be gained by them keeping any such papers on Machrihanish secret.Johnwrd (talk) 06:58, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nuclear Test Site? 

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