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Montevideo, June 19th 2025 - 10:17 UTC

Tag: Mount Kent

  • Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 06:55 UTC

    Falklands, Defense completes major improvement project in strategic Mounts

    The exterior of one of the accommodation blocks. MOD Crown Copyright.

    UK’s Defense Infrastructure Organization (DIO) has completed the final phase of a major improvement program at one of the most remote sites on the Defense estate in the Falkland Islands. A new modular accommodation block at Byron Heights has now been handed over, marking the end of a four-year infrastructure project, delivered on behalf of Strategic Command.  

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

    Military exercise in the Falklands at the end of January

    Fast jet and battle simulation sounds should be expected from approximately 0500-0700. Military troop vehicles are to be expected on the roads between these dates.

    The British Ministry of Defense, responsible for the Falkland Islands security, has announced that on January 23 and 24, the Roulement Infantry Company, RIC, will be involved in exercises on Mount Kent and Stanley Common, specifically Mount William and Sapper Hill.

  • Sunday, October 29th 2023 - 01:13 UTC

    Falklands: Remote radar facilities in Mount Kent becomes new refurbished outpost

    MLA John Birmingham with Commander Brigadier Duff, he said the opening of the Mount Kent facility represented the first £10m of a £30m investment in BFSAI.

    Earlier this week marked the official handover of new build accommodation at the 303 Signals Unit Remote Radar Head Mount Kent in the Falklands Islands, from the contract team Ramboll Volker Fitzpatrick to 303 Signals Unit. The ceremony marked UK's long-term commitment to the Falkland Islands' right to self-determination.

  • Monday, September 18th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Relatives of Argentine squad fallen during Falklands War return from humanitarian trip

    The Alacran squad's Puma helicopter was shot down at Mount Kent in 1982 but the bodies were not identified until 2021

    Relatives of Argentine combatants of the Alacran squad fallen in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict returned Saturday after visiting the graves of their loved ones following the Second Humanitarian Project Plan (PPH2) agreed with the United Kingdom and the International Committee of the Red Cross work which gave proper names to what was previously labeled under the generic “soldiers known only to God.”