by Lieven
By Jo Nova
It’s the New Zero-Defence Strategy — where we build the shields to hide the enemy’s bombs
If Britain (or Australia) ever needed to build an iron dome to protect itself, it’s a shame that giant rotating objects interfere with the radar.
A senior defense source has told the Daily Mail that Britain is a sitting duck:
Ed Miliband’s wind farms could cripple UK ‘Iron Dome’ anti-missile systems
By Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, Daily Mail
Britain is a ‘sitting duck’ in the face of drone attacks because Ed Miliband’s wind farms interfere with radar-based defensive domes, senior defence sources have claimed.
Ministers have been warned the UK lacks any equivalent to Israel‘s famous ‘Iron Dome’, which gives it the capability to intercept ballistic missiles at high altitude from 40 miles away.
The source added: ‘Wind farms are effectively giant chunks of metal that stand in the way of way of the tracking stations. It’s fair to say wind-farms and radar are not a great mix.
Labour is committed to switching to 95 per cent clean power sources by 2030 – a goal that will require a tripling of current wind capacity. It could lead to the relaxation of planning rules governing turbine construction.
There will be excuses that the nature of war has changed and they couldn’t have seen this coming. Except that we already knew that offshore wind turbines interfered with the ship’s radar signals, and scrambled the Air Force radar. Three years ago RAF pilots were already using the turbines to help them hide in training exercises.
Sweden blocked 13 off shore wind farms in 2024 because it was worried it would get less warning of a Russian missile attack.
Luckily in Australia, we don’t need radar to see hostile attacks coming — we have Virgin airline pilots.
Thanks to the Daily Skeptic.