No. 112 Signals Unit RAF

112 Signals Unit
Ensign of the Royal Air Force
Active1960–1983
Country United Kingdom
Branch Royal Air Force
TypeSignals
RoleMonitoring and measurement of V-force Victors and Vulcans Electronic countermeasures (ECM) performance
Part ofRAF Bomber Command 1960–1968
RAF Strike Command 1968–1983
LocatedStornoway Airport

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.[1] It was an RAF Bomber Command Headquarters (HQBC) directly administered unit established during the height of the Cold War.[2]

  1. ^ Document AIR 14/4317 1974–1980, The National Archives, Kew. (Memo No. 247 from ORB, HQBC discusses ECM measurement results by 112 S.U.)
  2. ^ See RAF Bomber Command, History: 1946 to 1968