Chequers (PM's weekend place) and helicopters
Discussion
I live very near to Chequers, our illustrious PM's weekend pad, and recently I have noticed helicopters circling the woods next to my garden.
Last night, they circled 3-4 times with a red dome light / camera on the side, then flew off in complete darkness, nothing on Flightradar.
Video below:-
Then today, another helicopter came back, couldn't see the red dome thingy, but they circled 3-4 times then flew off. Again nothing on Flightradar.
My theory is that there is something planned at Chequers, and they are making sure that nobody is hiding in the woods via heat seeking equipment, or they are checking that they can't see the heat signatures of the military hiding there (don't laugh!)
I did an advanced driving course with a serving police officer years ago, who used to be dog handler. He said that he once found a tooled up SAS bloke hiding in a hole in the woods (s
t in a bag, live there for 3 days kind of stuff) near Chequers.
Maybe they don't that anymore, and just use heat seeking equipment.
Or maybe it's a police / army exercise, and nothing to do with Chequers.
I have no idea!
Thoughts / ideas?
Last night, they circled 3-4 times with a red dome light / camera on the side, then flew off in complete darkness, nothing on Flightradar.
Video below:-
Then today, another helicopter came back, couldn't see the red dome thingy, but they circled 3-4 times then flew off. Again nothing on Flightradar.
My theory is that there is something planned at Chequers, and they are making sure that nobody is hiding in the woods via heat seeking equipment, or they are checking that they can't see the heat signatures of the military hiding there (don't laugh!)
I did an advanced driving course with a serving police officer years ago, who used to be dog handler. He said that he once found a tooled up SAS bloke hiding in a hole in the woods (s
t in a bag, live there for 3 days kind of stuff) near Chequers.Maybe they don't that anymore, and just use heat seeking equipment.
Or maybe it's a police / army exercise, and nothing to do with Chequers.
I have no idea!
Thoughts / ideas?
2fast748 said:
Bottom pic looks like a Super Puma, the forces do seem to appear in certain regions, hang round for a few days then disappear. I've seen pairs of Pumas, heard Chinooks!
Thanks, maybe I’m reading too much into it, we had chinooks doing a different exercise a month or so ago.They do this exercise type stuff at a number of “secure” locations.
When I worked at Aldermaston they had exercises for all sorts of things every few weeks. It’s a big place, everyone there is checked, signed in, SC’d, verified etc.… helicopters do “touch and go” exercises, MOD drone practice – you name it. There’s no media allowed, no cameras etc.… a good place to faff around.
It’s probably nothing more than that. There are all sorts of rumours of people wandering around the local woods, Coombe Hill.…
It always amuses me that there is a public footpath going right across the Chequers drive way
When I worked at Aldermaston they had exercises for all sorts of things every few weeks. It’s a big place, everyone there is checked, signed in, SC’d, verified etc.… helicopters do “touch and go” exercises, MOD drone practice – you name it. There’s no media allowed, no cameras etc.… a good place to faff around.
It’s probably nothing more than that. There are all sorts of rumours of people wandering around the local woods, Coombe Hill.…
It always amuses me that there is a public footpath going right across the Chequers drive way
bucksmanuk said:
They do this exercise type stuff at a number of “secure” locations.
When I worked at Aldermaston they had exercises for all sorts of things every few weeks. It’s a big place, everyone there is checked, signed in, SC’d, verified etc.… helicopters do “touch and go” exercises, MOD drone practice – you name it. There’s no media allowed, no cameras etc.… a good place to faff around.
It’s probably nothing more than that. There are all sorts of rumours of people wandering around the local woods, Coombe Hill.…
It always amuses me that there is a public footpath going right across the Chequers drive way
I've seen similar at civilian sites that are critical to the UK Energy infrastructure. One noteworthy one being a week long exercise testing perimeter security - the canteen chatter was that SAS were involved but we took that with a pinch of salt at the time - would be inappropriate to post the ways they found to defeat the security, but the most spectacular (successful) attempt would have made David Stirling proud. When I worked at Aldermaston they had exercises for all sorts of things every few weeks. It’s a big place, everyone there is checked, signed in, SC’d, verified etc.… helicopters do “touch and go” exercises, MOD drone practice – you name it. There’s no media allowed, no cameras etc.… a good place to faff around.
It’s probably nothing more than that. There are all sorts of rumours of people wandering around the local woods, Coombe Hill.…
It always amuses me that there is a public footpath going right across the Chequers drive way
bucksmanuk said:
There are all sorts of rumours of people wandering around the local woods, Coombe Hill.…
It always amuses me that there is a public footpath going right across the Chequers drive way
I walked to the farm shop near Chequers the other day along that path, in the bottom field was a random walking around the perimeter of the fence, within minutes, 2 police offices armed with automatic weapons were on the scene to investigate.It always amuses me that there is a public footpath going right across the Chequers drive way
Seight_Returns said:
I've seen similar at civilian sites that are critical to the UK Energy infrastructure. One noteworthy one being a week long exercise testing perimeter security - the canteen chatter was that SAS were involved but we took that with a pinch of salt at the time - would be inappropriate to post the ways they found to defeat the security, but the most spectacular (successful) attempt would have made David Stirling proud.
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