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Hero calls police after seeing 'balaclava clad men in vans' outside RAF Fairford
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- Sep 27, 2026, 8:03 AM UTC
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Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Since 2019, the base has played host to a Lockheed U-2S Dragon Lady detachment from the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. It is the USAF's only European airfield for heavy bombers and routinely supports Bomber Task Force operations. Its most prominent use in recent decades has been as an airfield for United States Air Force B-52s during the first Gulf War in 1991, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the 2003 Iraq War, and the 2026 Iran war.
More on Wikipedia ↗A villager has said she raised the alarm about vans blocking the road and a “large group of hooded and balaclava
Trump says men arrested over RAF Fairford incident had been 'under view for a long time'
Several suspects were taken into custody on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act after viable incendiary devices and chemicals were found in a van.