raf flyingdales

[le-frog]

could anybody please help
have the golfballs at raf flyingdales on yorkshire moors been dismantled & replaced with something else (pyramid)

thanks

tom

[grasscarp]

Looks like you are right
http://www.raf.mod.uk/raffylingdales/aboutus/

[grasscarp]

The site was originally dominated by 3 ‘Golf Balls’ which housed mechanical tracking radars. In the early 1990s, the old radars were replaced by a much more capable Solid State Phased Array Radar (SSPAR), which underwent another upgrade completed in 2007. The SSPAR was built by Raytheon and consists of a 3-sided truncated pyramid about 120 feet (40m) high. Each face is approximately 84 feet (28m) in diameter and contains an array of 2,560 transmit/receive modules, each with a circularly polarised ‘Pawsey Stub’ antenna. Each antenna has a power output of 340 watts and this gives an overall mean power output from the 3 faces of approximately 2.5 Mega Watts. The SSPAR has no big dishes that turn, indeed no moving parts at all.

[le-frog]

thanks for promt reply grasscarp. but would like to know if golfballs still exist or have been dismantled.
as a friend says they still exist. but i have driven by & they do not appear to be there anymore.

[grasscarp]

I did a bit of googling and it says they were demolished.