And not likely to be arrested by the police.
It’s subversion and sabotage against military targets in support of a foreign “state”. Did you miss the article where they the same organisation broke into an arms factory in Bristol and assaulted a police officer with a sledgehammer? We actually have to stand up for ourselves without tying ourselves in legal knots. We are our own worst enemy but the current attorney general is broadly on the side of people like this. Americans would have shot them. We should change the rules to allow lethal force to be used in defence of critical national infrastructure
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Most likely - but you have the “serious damage” to the UK defence structure in that these assets are no longer available for tasking (for an unknown period), so support for Op Shader, QRA, etc, is no longer possible.
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If it’s sabotage then they are fully in their rights to arrest and charge them under the National Security Act 2023 would they not?
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If it is stopping the aircraft flying then that is sabotage.
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Stolen from Fill Your Boots
I wish I could see the guard log book
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How many UK bases are under such 'surveillance?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/21/iran-israel-war-us-trump-gaza-hamas-latest/
The rules do already allow this - let’s not fall into the Yankee Doodle trap of advocating for things that are already permitted just to appeal to supporters of populist policies.
It requires fair warning (you may remember such lines as “ARMY! STOP, STAND STILL!” and “ARMY! HALT OR I FIRE!”) but all of these actually require an interception of the actions. When it comes to Brize ultimately the Armed Forces were caught napping.
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Also, it’s not like they had to do loads of work to break in. These sites are hardly high security. Many of the airfield boundaries are just small wooden fences.
What has happened is an embarrassment. And we really need to have a look at the security of these sites and how easily this happened. That’s what needs to be focused on here.
Agree 100%
I’m seeing all sorts of nonsense on SM about civilian contractors doing security and we should have armed guards: when we all know armed MPGS soldiers already provide site security. I know that ASF (RAFP) are responsible for security of aircraft, but not sure if that includes the UK. The RAF Regt are getting lots of flack, but they do not perform this role in the UK (whether they should is another matter).
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It’s one of the ‘weaknesses of air power’ which any senior or master cadet should be able to explain!
Now Labour Mos are waking up, must worried about their sinecures,
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Brize is actually contractor led with a small MPGS det and the rest of the numbers made up from station personnel. They do have RAFP too and II Sqn RAF Regt who I suspect may have their roles enhanced over the next few days
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It’s called sabotage……
Dictionary
Definitions from [Oxford Languages]
Sabotage
verb
past tense: sabotaged; past participle: sabotaged
- [deliberately] deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage.
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No, it’s not. The contractors only do control of entry on the main gate and visitors reception.
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