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04 Jul 25. RAF nuclear jet base protected by 5ft fence. Telegraph investigation finds several military airstrips that are vulnerable to attack by activists and foreign agents. Britain’s new nuclear-capable fighter jets will be protected by a 5ft-high fence that could be scaled by saboteurs, The Telegraph can reveal. Following an investigation, The Telegraph found that a number of the Royal Air Force’s most important bases are susceptible to potential attacks by determined activists and foreign agents. Among them are a mooted future home of Britain’s F35 fighters and two bases that were named as targets by soon-to-be proscribed Palestine Action last week. At points, the “vulnerable” airstrips are protected by hedges, wooden fences or nothing at all – which insiders admitted was “not perfect”. The potential security weaknesses are publicly available using Street View software, which experts said Palestine Action and hostile foreign powers would already have been able to use to assess their weaknesses. A dossier of findings has been shared with the Ministry of Defence. The Telegraph has also chosen not to name the bases visited or to detail precisely where weaknesses are along their perimeters. Palestine Action has pledged to raid air bases across the country after demonstrators made their way in and out of RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, last month without being detected. But the RAF appears to have made few attempts to strengthen the physical perimeters of its bases since the incursion, in which two military planes were vandalised. At bases visited by The Telegraph, patrols were infrequently observed, barbed wire was absent for large distances, and CCTV did not appear to cover their entire perimeters.
Mark Francois, the Conservative shadow defence minister, said the RAF needed to rapidly review base security following the “serious revelations”. He said: “The MoD has announced a review of security at all military installations, which must be thorough but also conducted at pace. These serious revelations underline just how crucial that security review now is.”
At one site, the RAF’s main intelligence and surveillance base, a 700-metre section of perimeter near its runway is made up of hedges and metal and wooden fences that only reach 6ft high. The area is devoid of barbed wire and offers would-be infiltrators a quick getaway onto the A15. Nearby, another base is protected only by a 6ft-high, garden-style wooden fence for almost 1.5 miles along its north and eastern perimeter. The major base is home to RAF Typhoon fighter squadrons. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
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