Palestine group attacks RAF base, damages Voyager aircraft

Great security!

Don’t worry ‘lessons will be learned’ over this major security breach! This was two numptys on electric scooters FFS🤬 where was MOD plod and the Rock Apes?

Oh dear, not a good look. Perhaps it was carried out during NAFFi break?

These individuals should be charged under the treason act, they have undertaken acts of sabotage against the defences of the UK damaged and removed from Commission strategic assets and weakened our defences during a time of high international tensions as well as strengthened the view of Russia and china that we a western power are weak against political warfare. They are probably idealistic idiot young people but sadly for the good of the state they need very long prison sentences and their organisation needs proscribing as an enemy none state actor.

Mohamed Starmer will put you in jail if you criticize these peaceful activists, especially if they’re Arabs.

They should have been shot on entry really. You can’t play soft here, Ukraine has proved that in Russia. Just what the hell were security doing?

Hopefully a wake up call on base (in)security.

It doesn’t surprise me as when, officially, on various sites I’d often observe that the base boundaries were hedges.

One officer joked his kids school’s perimeter security was better..

Trying to recharge E bikes using Tankers does show the ignorence of todays Yoofs.

I blame Greta.

Outrageous

We need new treason laws to deal with these idiots.

MI5 should be investigating this activist group, this is far beyond peaceful protest.

Heads should roll,
• they should never have been able to break into the base without it being detected
• they should never have been able to escape afterwards

The organisation they belong to should now be designated a terrorist organisation, with its members rounded up and held for interrogation. Prosecute all those who were involved with it knew of this either before or after the incident as accomplices.
Fines should cover the costs of repairs plus all investigation and prosecution costs. Plus time in prison for them to reflect on their stupidity.

Another example of security not being taken in the UK. Wake up.

Unbelievable security lapse. A few rounds of 5.56 would prevent future breaches.

Unless there are existential career consequences for the people responsible for security at MOD sites this mediocrity will just continue. You need secure perimeter fencing. You need monitoring of your fencing. You need sufficient Guards to patrol the perimeter and guard key installations. You need a suitably mob-handed QRF to respond to incidents. You also need regular exercises to test defences to judge its effectiveness and also identify vulnerabilities.

If you cant understand this or you cant provision this then don’t bother turning up for work and we’ll save some money on a wasted salary.

Right now I’d bin the head of station security and the station commander just for the value of creating a morality tale for other station commanders so that they can get their heads in the game.

If the issue is funding then the Civil Servant who is making the decision not to fund the necessary protection of critical sites can also be removed from office too because they also are a liability.

The MOD and RAF are really going to need to try a lot harder because this is just embarrassing for the entire country.

We bang on about getting GBAD to defend the bases but all it requires is a couple of e-bikes, a hammer and some spray and that’s us done, you cannot make this up.

This country never ceases to amaze me…
What message does this send to our enemies?;
Don’t bother investing in military hardware, air defence missiles or long range weapons… just buy a plane ticket to the UK (or a free inflatable taxi service across the channel if you’re looking to save money), once you’ve done that, simply walk into a military base with a cheap crowbar and inflict all the damage you like!
No one will stop you honest! We’d be seen as racist if we tried to stop you! So come on in!
Oh wait… you’re already here in your tens of thousands unchecked, unopposed, living for free and running grooming gangs taking what you want?
Damn… It’s a good job no one’s coordinating you all
What happened to this country’s spine? It’s teeth? Dare I say it’s identity? It’s pride in itself?

Where were the dogs and their handlers.
It used to be common place to see signs around “certain” bases, saying “War Dogs on Patrol”.
During my occasional visits to RAF stations, I often saw RAF personnel walking around with dogs. Has this been abandoned.

I bet neither of them are are Palestine, or ever been there or even any part of the Middle East, likely white student types with rich parents. Nice to see how well guarded planes are, joke security has made the RAF look stupid, again. RAF Regiment what top force that is not.

Were the RAF military police and RAF regiment all down at the bar getting smashed?
Someone needs to be dismissed immediately. Fragrant breach of base security at one of the UKs primary and few remaining frontline airfields.
I think the message from the defence secretary needs to be very very clear. We are in a time when this type of an attack could have been prosecuted by an enemy state’s trained operatives. What then? They could have run smoke destroying the RAF tanker and transport fleet seemingly.

The military police and RAF regiment need to get a grip. Seriously. Reflects very very badly on the entire RAF and their vigilance and awareness of the heightened state of threat.
Oh well also need GBAD sorting out asap as it could easily have been a truck load of FPV drones controlled by AI and with explosive payloads

Two serious issues here, firstly the security issue, or lack of it (but its a big base and easy to actually enter over a fence) but the second and more importantly at this time, is the fact these misinformed clowns have damaged 2 essential assets during a time where tensions are increasing and everyone’s safety is a little secure around the globe. Find them and for gods sake make an example of them and bang them up for a decent amount of time! But alas they will get away with it with some dog shit excuse with a dog shit excuse of a lawyer.

So civilians can wander into one of the UK’s key airbases and damage aircraft.

But you know……war footing guys!!!

Joke country.

Good call.

The idiot who founded this activist group

Google: huda-ammori

This action group should now be declared and treaty as a terrorist organisation.

This is domestic terrorism on behalf of a state actor, it’s time MI5 went after these people and the entire weight of the law must be thrown at them multi decade jail sentences should be applied. The RAF needs to do some serious sole searching as well.

It’s focusing on anti drone swarms and missile defences while a bunch of nut jobs on e scooters climb the fence and take out two strategic assets.

The voyager fleet is now moving to Prestwick, how are they going to keep it safe.

Where the F@@k are the RAF regiment? They should have been standing guard on every aircraft in a combat zone and opened fire.

Thought George had commented that the Voyagers had been relocated to Prestwick due to resurfacing of Brize Norton runway
So were these 2 unservicable and awaiting maintenance?

has reported on other attacks No proper justice here I fear as these radicals/terrorists seem like the same lot attacking BAE Systems building ASW frigates fof the North Atlantic and other defence sites and I think they got away with criminal damage in Glasgow – Scot-free (no pun intended) Please correct me if I am wrong George has written on UKDJ regarding these previous attacks
Starmer is more afraid of Labour’s left wing including the Corbynistas and others that I can not name as this might be seen as a criminal offence but their questions in the House of Commons and views shared in the media are revealing

I don’t know which part of this story makes me rage more, the actions of these do-gooder activists or the failure in security around these assets.
These activists need to be prosecuted under terrorism laws and that includes the people who run/fund these organisations.
Any aircraft stored outdoors should have a physical security presence around it. Building sites have better security these days with their security “robots”
At minimum these should be placed around outdoor aircraft to alert a rapid response unit.

This is seriously worrying, and indicative of how vulnerable we have made UK forces as a result of not properly vetting immigrants to the UK who have more loyalty to other countries than our own.

In the event of a full scale war, there would undoubtedly be many similar attacks being conducted by UK residents using commercially available drones etc.

Israel has shown how effective such attacks can be in recent weeks.

Base security needs to be upped immediately, and maybe more restrictions should be placed on drone availability, given how easily they can be turned into remote weapons.

Not only military target security, but major infrastructure is also vulnerable to drone attack, such as electricity substations. Things that have previously been guarded by tall fences and barbed wire can now easily be reached by drones.

MOD Plod and the Rock Apes having a day off? Utterly shameful that they were allowed to plan, execute and escape.

There will of course be a “lessons learned” statement and press release with 20 quotes from 20 nobodies saying the usual horse shit “our renewed funding demonstrates our unparalleled ability to protect….” yadda yadda, but the damage has been done. I have often worried about the ability of non-state actors to attack military sites with drones, but it appears all you need is a bike and determination to get in?

I’m less angry about the damage and the actions of the activists and more angry and concerned about base security. They should have been met with dogs, arrest and bullets, in whatever order the reader seems fit.

If, as we are being told, runway maintenance is being carried out, might we not also assume that there are contractors and plant on-site in some quantity. And that, presumambly, ‘normal operations’ are more or less suspended? Blokes in hi-vis all over the place, earth-movers, graders, dump-truck et el. moving back and forth etc. In short ‘their guard was down’, ‘cos nothing was happening? And come 5:30pm, we can all go home?

No doubt they will get away with it.

We ave just seen Ukraine pull off a sophisticate and clever drone raid on Russian airbases resulting in 12 or so aircraft destroyed, but that took 18 months to prepare. Meanwhile 2 idiots with scooters are sufficient to penetrate defences at a major UK airbase. Does the RAF not even look at what is going on in the world?

Apparently security breaches at Brize are not uncommon. They used to have persistent thefts of copper cabling from (within the perimeter) one of the old Hercules hangers.

Can you imagine the utter shower that you are if pikeys don’t fear you but see you as easy victims?

We need a thinking moment here. If you have a position of responsibility within the armed forces where the nation expects you to deliver and you cant because it’s too hard or you’re too frit to rock the boat then I suggest you pack it all in and go do something less challenging instead.

If on the other hand you want to do your job properly (say protecting the main operating base of all our country’s transport aircraft) but you’re unable to because Air Vice Marshal Ritz-Carlton would rather spend the money on golf clubs then I suggest the “squeaky wheel” approach of office politics. Quite simply you broadcast out as many emails as possible about your concern, making the resource blockers future career vulnerable and putting them firmly into the crosshairs of any future enquiry. This will force the resourcing requirement further and further up the chain of command until resources are provided or you’ll discover someone brave or stupid enough to reject the funding and accept the risk.
We need service people to step up and do their jobs their tasked with doing. If your duty is to guard a critical military installation and you don’t have sufficient resources to do so then it’s unacceptable for you to simply accept it. You have to go out there, kick over some tables and make noise. You’ll honestly feel better for it. Otherwise you risk another public incident and your career is in danger of ending very, very abruptly.

So we have military bases with large perimeters and each staffed by several thousand service personnel all of who have had fire arms training at some time or another.
Doesn’t anyone still have to do guard duty ? If not why not ? And why isn’t the Apron floodlit ?

Looking at this it seems that my local Airport (EMA) is better guarded than a military Airfield. There are 2 or 3 cars driving around all the time checking the parameter and flight line 24/7/365 then again it doesn’t look like they light the apron up theses days.

Perhaps we should let the RAF raise a very well equipped, mobile regiment of @1500 infantry who’s sole purpose is to defend RAF Airfields. Oh wait we did that already.😖

It seems the RAF didn’t get the memo that base security was supposed to be on the leading edge and world beating. I just hope that the Government is able to sign some more cooperation agreements or partnerships to further explore and develop base security alongside allies with no set objectives whilst ‘possibly’ committing to improving base security if funding allows in the next Parliament, something something, cyber, AI, sensors, drones, lethality.

Despite this being case in point on the state of defence with significant defence assets being vandalised uncontested on a major military base, very little will happen in response despite the glaring vulnerabilities that would be further exposed during conflict. Once the news cycle moves on it will be as if this never happened because security isn’t actually a serious consideration for any party anymore because it doesn’t win votes.

This is both very embarrassing and also very concerning.

Looking at it objectively.
There are hundreds of MoD sites. I’m aware of most of them, as I like studying infrastructure as much as ORBAT.
Obvious security naturally varies.
Many locations one can just stroll or drive in, like an Army range, at the bottom of the scale. That won’t have the same security as a place like Aldermaston, or Burghfield, at the top. These imbeciles won’t be getting into those, with 4 outer fences in critical areas, cameras, motion sensors, dead zones floodlit, and MDP patrols.
An RAF Airfield is a huge area. It’s not realistic to secure all of it with the basic outer fences you see at some RAF Stations and many other MoD sites.
Likewise RAF Cranwell, an open field beyond a fence along the A road and you’re on the runway.
But Brize, being one of the critical nodes should be one that is high enough up the scale of importance to do better than this.
The RAF Reg Sqn there I don’t believe gets involved in base security, more when assets are deployed. The RAF Reg Station Flight just has MPGS and RAF Police.
I’ve been “intercepted” several times at MoD sites walking perimeters, and plod have come to say hello every time. They see you. One location, the line between public and MoD led was deliberately vague, and plain closed MDP turned up in minutes. That was the CCC.
So let’s not think security is a shambles everywhere. It’s not.
But it was here, at a key point of failure.
That is a big problem.

Sabotage that could have led to loss of life on a primary military airbase. Those people should be imprisoned, better should have been shot on sight as potential terrorist. This will embolden any fifth element or the misguided to also have a crack, a message needs to be sent of severity, doors kicked and people arrested. I watch my country continue to fragment and lose its purpose because of people who should not be here, or people we have educated into self loathing of their own country.

Lots of comments saying where was the bases security, but the simple fact about UK today is there no deterrent for this and many other crimes. Someone can inflict significant damage to the commercial / public property or stop traffic or aircraft taking off resulting million of pounds lost and will probably walk free from court or serve a very limited term in custody. Successive government completely normalised many offences people now just think its how life is and are unware of freedom that have been take away from them due to lack deterrent on crime. Here’s an example, I was at a petrol station in the evening and there was a que at the payment window, the fella in front of me turned round and said it was better when we could go inside pick our own stuff and pay, to which I agreed but the young lad behind piped up and saying what you could go inside after 9pm!!! he was stunned and thought that always people had not been allowed shop inside a petrol station shop after a certain time. Of course the reason why they don’t let people in now is theft, threats and attacks on staff. The general public have had the removal of the freedom to go into the shop and slect item at leisure and the serve a sentence in extra time penalty to que up, over generation its been normalised!!!

MoD talking about vandalism. It was not vandalism, it was terrorism and should be treated as such and any of the appropriately monikered CoC in Base Security, Command and RAF Security should be hung out to dry.

RAF Regt are going to have a few sleepless decades now this has happened and RAFP which incorporates an Int function will also be put on notice…

We are at war with Russia and the Ukrainians have shown us how to do it quite successfully, have we not awoken to the fact?

Don’t worry, the Home Office will see that they’re provided the best legal defence possible.