If Britain Goes to War With Russia UK Air Bases Are ‘Inviting Targets,’ MPs Told

If Britain Goes to War With Russia UK Air Bases Are ‘Inviting Targets,’ MPs Told
F-35B Lightning II fighter jets arrive at the Royal Air Force Marham airbase in Kings Lynn, England on June 6, 2018. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Chris Summers
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A military aviation expert has told a committee of UK MPs that, in the event of a war with Russia, Britain’s three fighter jet bases would make “inviting targets.”

Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow for air power and technology at the Royal United Services Institute, said RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, RAF Marham in Norfolk, and RAF Lossiemouth in Fife, Scotland had “no air defences of any kind” and the planes were kept in hangars which were “easy to identify.”
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