Royal Air Force

US Air Force personnel investigated a suspected unauthorized drone over RAF Lakenheath on 14 Nov and reported no injuries, aircraft or infrastructure were harmed. The base’s Force Protection Condition was raised to Charlie before the incident was declared resolved. In the same week, the US Justice Department charged three men described as Iranian operatives for a September terrorist plot at RAF Fairford, and UK police charged two British men with national‑security offences linked to that plot. Tehran denied any involvement.

A superseding indictment unsealed on Tuesday charges three men with supporting terrorism in nearly twenty planned attacks on Jewish sites in Europe and the United States and a foiled plot against the British air base RAF Fairford where U.S. forces are stationed. The indictment names Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al‑Saadi, a dual Iranian‑Iraqi national held in Brooklyn, Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian, and Mohammad Ali al‑Hassani, an Iraqi, and alleges they acted for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iraqi militia Kata'ib Hezbollah.

The United States moved at least twelve military aircraft from RAF Mildenhall in eastern England on Monday, 9 Nov, after a threat linked to Iran was reported. About ten KC-135 Stratotanker refuelling planes went to Germany, Spain and Scotland, and three Osprey aircraft landed at RAF Lakenheath on Tuesday. RAF Mildenhall has raised its alert level to FPCON Charlie. A US official called the moves proactive, while US officials are still discussing the nature of the threat.

Britain's Supreme Court opened a two-day hearing on Wednesday, 4 Nov, into a challenge by Palestine Action to its proscription as a terrorist organisation. The group, founded in 2020, was banned in July 2025 after attacks on defence firms, including a 2024 raid on Elbit Systems that caused about £1 million in damage. Campaigners and police report more than 4,000 arrests since the ban; police detained several protesters outside the court, and 325 people were arrested outside the US embassy in London on 31 Oct. Co-founder Huda Ammori argues the ban criminalises legitimate protest.

Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim and Nouman Essghir, both 24, are scheduled to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later on Tuesday after being charged under Britain’s National Security Act for alleged security offences linked to a suspected Iranian intelligence operation at RAF Fairford. Police say Abdulkarim is accused of assisting a foreign intelligence service believed to be Iran, while Essghir faces a charge of entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK. The United States withdrew all its B‑1 bombers from the base days after the September 27 incident.