RAF Troodos

RAF Troodos ( Royal Air Force Station Troodos ) is the site of a powerful radar system of the Royal Air Force on Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Cyprus. The system has a range of 1,500 to 3,000 miles and is designed for continuous monitoring of military and civilian air traffic over Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and parts of Egypt and Turkey.

The facility is located on the summit of the Troodos Mountains. This has become even by the "golf balls" facility referred to the military area and therefore inaccessible. The 1974 installed is an unspecified known HF / VHF ionospheric radar system. It is operated by 27 RAF staff of the Golf Section of the Joint Service Signal Unit Cyprus. This unit also bretreibt 100 miles distant, Ayios Nikolaos Station in the northeast of the island.

The Troodos Station is the oldest, still existing British military base in Cyprus. It was established in 1878. Originally there a recreational hospital for British soldiers from the Egypt mission was established, which should recuperate in the winter cold of their desert operations. The British army and the government used it as a summer residence.

A wide-angle telescope of the British National Space Centre Star Brook was built in 2006. It can detect objects in orbit up to a size of 1.5 meters.