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112 Signals Unit, RAF Stornoway (112 S.U.) was a classified Royal Air Force (RAF) Electronic countermeasures (ECM) measurement and evaluation unit based at Stornoway Airport on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.〔Document AIR 14/4317 ''1974–1980'', The National Archives, Kew. (Memo No. 247 from ORB, HQBC discusses ECM measurement results by 112 S.U.)〕 It was an RAF Bomber Command Headquarters (HQBC) directly administered unit established during the height of the Cold War.〔See RAF Bomber Command, History: 1946 to 1968〕 == Role == Once 112 S.U. had been established at Stornoway Airport from 1 January 1960, under the auspices of the Operational Research Branch (O.R.B) at HQBC, the unit measured the signal strength, frequency bandwidths and aerial performance of the operational Handley Page Victor and Avro Vulcan V bombers as they flew a course towards, over or away from the unit varying from straight-lines to polar patterns.〔Document AIR 29/4736 ''1974–1980'', The National Archives, Kew. (map showing aircraft track to/from 112 S.U.)〕 Results were passed back to HQBC and to each aircraft's base for the Electronics Engineers and Technicians to review for performance improvement of each piece of equipment that was measured.〔Document AIR 29/4526 ''1964–1973'', The National Archives, Kew. (Operations Record Book for 112 S.U.)〕 The combined success of the unit and each of the aircraft's bases along with support staff at BCDU and RRE Malvern (later to become RSRE Malvern) was demonstrated by the V-force during Operation Skyshield exercises 〔Document AIR 14/4317 ''Monitoring of RED SHRIMP performance before Exercise SKYSHIELD II'', The National Archives, Kew.〕 during the early sixties.〔White, p 47. (SKYSHIELD reference)Vulcan〕 and subsequent exercises up to the time that the unit was closed in 1983
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