Anonymous10 days ago
On 1 March 2026, a low-cost Iranian-made Shahed drone struck RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, penetrating multiple layers of defense and hitting a hangar housing US U-2 spy planes — the first hostile drone strike on a British sovereign base. The incident has triggered parliamentary scrutiny of UK defense readiness, mass protests in Cyprus demanding the removal of British bases, and urgent questions about whether the UK's counter-drone capabilities match the scale of the asymmetric threat posed by cheap precision weapons.