{"id":212415,"date":"2025-10-20T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212415\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:46:07","slug":"uk-military-to-get-powers-to-shoot-down-drones-near-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212415\/","title":{"rendered":"UK military to get powers to shoot down drones near bases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Healey is set to announce the introduction of a “kinetic option”, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, that would enable British troops or Ministry of Defence (MoD) police to shoot drones posing a threat to a military site in the UK.<\/p>\n

Existing protocol mandates soldiers divert drones or disrupt their GPS signal using counter-drone equipment. <\/p>\n

Shooting down an unidentified drone is only allowed in extreme circumstances.<\/p>\n

RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, in Suffolk, RAF Feltwell in Norfolk and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire all reported drone incursions in November last year.<\/p>\n

About 60 RAF personnel were sent to assist the US Air Force in its investigation.<\/p>\n

Neither US nor UK officials have said who might have been behind the drone activity. <\/p>\n

The airbases have strategic significance for the US military. It recently deployed F-22A fighter jets to RAF Lakenheath, days after the US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recent drone sightings across the European Union prompted a leaders’ summit in Denmark earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Several EU member states have backed plans for a multi-layered “drone wall” to quickly detect, track and destroy Russian drones.<\/p>\n

Twenty Russian drones crossed into Poland in September while Russian MiG-31 jets entered Estonian airspace later in the month. Russia has denied or downplayed the incursions.<\/p>\n

Other recent drones sightings have also forced numerous European airports to close, including across two consecutive days in Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n

Airports in Denmark and Norway also shut after unidentified drones were spotted near airport and military airspaces.<\/p>\n

Russia denied any involvement, while Danish authorities said there was no evidence Moscow was involved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Healey is set to announce the introduction of a “kinetic option”, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-212415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}