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The spies added two more cities, which are targets Vladimir Putin would aspire to if a war with Russia broke out.
Intelligence services have warned that the other two sites in southern England are now on the list of Russian long-range bombers. However, although the names have not been given, the source indicated that one of the cities “has links with the army” and the others do not.
Cities with long-standing links to the armed forces, such as Lossiemouth in Moray, where an RAF base is located, will most likely already be on the list. Other places would be Aldershot, Colchester and Portsmouth, while other features boast diversity from Chatham, Kent to Tidworth and Salisbury in Wiltshire.
As the Mirror reported, the updated list, which is the most comprehensive ever maintained by British intelligence, was relayed to a British intelligence officer in Eastern Europe through a Russian agent. In addition to presenting the objectives, it shows the main points. about the army airfields from which the Russian bombers would fly and the number of aircraft assigned to the operation.
“The data includes main points of a high-profile attack in addition to a low-level attack,” a Whitehall source said, the Express reported. The idea, the source added, perhaps to distract the RAF’s Rapid Reaction Alert (QRA) groups. with a feint, before temporarily chasing him with a real attack.
“A Russian air strike on British soil would, of course, be a declaration of war, either against the UK or the rest of NATO,” the source added. This comes after Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said in January that the global movement “From a post-war globality to a pre-war globality”.
Gen. Sir Patrick Sanders, who is stepping down as head of the British army, warned that the U. K. would likely have to fight Russia within a few years. He called it the “1937 moment” and NATO experts laid out Putin’s plan to use force to control much of Europe. But even if Russia wanted to attack the UK on its own, it would seem that it would have to wait until it finished fighting Ukraine.
Britain has two QRA bases to protect us from air attacks: RAF Coningsthrough in the east and RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland. Putin revived a Cold War strategy in 2005 by sending Russian bombers and spy planes close to British skies. This prompted the RAF to send QRA Typhoon fighter jets to force them away from the UK’s air defence region.
In 2007, the RAF had to strike 19 times, while in 2020 it did so 11 times due to Russian aircraft in the vicinity of our airspace and last year it only happened six times, which may simply be due to Russia’s focus on the war in Ukraine.
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