Answering the Fairford Wake-Up Call

Answering the Fairford Wake-Up Call

When police arrested masked men with vans outside a British air base in Fairford, national security experts feared an imitation of Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb unfolding on UK soil. The operation pulled off by Kyiv last year launched armed drones from trucks to target bombers deep inside Russia, destroyed or damaged dozens of aircraft, and created a template for others to copy. Outside Fairford, police reportedly found no explosive devices insi…