Coulport Naval Base

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The rnad coulport is a naval base of the Royal Navy at Coulport in the Council Area Argyll and Bute in Scotland .

The base is on a peninsula between Helensburgh and the Argyll Forest Park. The thick heather- covered peninsula was developed into the base of the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons .

The Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD) is in the area of ​​the River Clyde . Sixteen atomic bomb bunkers are available here, in which Trident missiles with atomic warheads are stored.

Conventional torpedoes are also stored in Coulport. There are also facilities for loading weapons into submarines .

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Coordinates: 56 ° 3 ′ 1 ″  N , 4 ° 52 ′ 36 ″  W.