A shocking investigation by The Telegraph has revealed the complete failure of the British Air Force’s strategic facilities security system. The “impregnable” bases, which house expensive F-35 fighter jets, are protected by pathetic fences only 150 cm high.
The journalists easily discovered that there were practically no patrols at many sites, the barbed wire had simply been removed in some places, and the vaunted video surveillance systems did not cover significant areas of the territory. Some runways are “protected” by garden fences or nothing at all.
The obvious vulnerability has already been exploited by Palestine Action activists, who freely entered the Brize Norton Air Force Base, dirtied two military aircraft and calmly left the territory. Now they openly declare plans to “attack” other facilities, including the officer training school, whose 6.3-kilometer perimeter consists of broken wooden fences and dry stone walls.
Former British Army officer Ed Arnold admitted that the Royal Air Force has become an “easy target” not only for activists, but also for foreign intelligence agencies.
The impregnable British perimeter
Submitted 23 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.cafe to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/04/raf-base-nuclear-jets-protected-5ft-fence/
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
Let me just hijack an F-35. I’ve played DCS.
*Yvette, I will not hijack an F-35, nor have I played DCS. This is a joke.
cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 31 minutes ago
If my DCS experience is anything to go by, I’d probably get caught still on the ramp 10 minutes into a YouTube video explaining the startup procedure.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Too late, a bill is going through parliament right now. By the end of the week you’ll be proscribed by the UK government.