EXCLUSIVE: Britain Forced to Spend £1.5 Billion to Mitigate Wind Turbine Corruptions to Vital Air Defence Radar
by Chris Morrison 8 May 2025 9:00 AM
Britain’s offshore wind farms are a clear and present danger to vital air defences, with the Labour Government forced to spend an astonishing £1.5 billion in the next two years to try to guarantee the integrity of the country’s early warning radar network. Wind turbines cause havoc with radar since the rotating blades create Doppler shifts that hinder detection of enemy aircraft, drones and missiles. The problem has been known about for some time but it is getting worse as turbine blades get larger. There is no guarantee that the enormous sums recently allocated will fix the problems despite amounting to 2.5% of the entire annual UK defence budget of around £60 billion.
The money is a complete waste of course and only necessary because politicians are clinging to an increasing discredited Net Zero fantasy. It need hardly be pointed out the £1.5 billion could bring back the winter fuel payment to the over-65s, a project dear to the heart of many Labour supporters, or it could remove the punitive education tax levied on 6% of children educated outside the state system. The annual budget of the RAF is not disclosed but it is thought to be around £15 billion. The money spent on trying to fix the radar is therefore 10% of the annual funding of the air force and it would buy a squadron of Typhoon fighter jets.
And the costly fix might not work. No definitive solution to radar corruptions seems to have been achieved and the problem is getting worse as the political demands for more renewable energy are leading to much larger revolving blades. It is thought that the money will be spent on a number of mitigating attempts including computer fixes, radar upgrades, alternative sensors and the use of specialised materials on blades to reduce radar clutter. Alas, none of these attempted solutions are proven to fully eradicate the growing problem. Coming further down the track are floating wind turbines which further complicate radar tracking due to positional variability.
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