Break in at Brize Norton two jets damaged

[justasking111]

I'm stunned that the base used by the prime minister, ministers, the royal family VIPs from overseas can be breached like this so easily.

Apparently by a Palestinian organisation.

We can't even defend on our own soil

"Two e-scooter riding pro-Palestine activists breach RAF Brize Norton and sabotage two... - LBC" https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/raf-planes-sabotaged-palestine-protesters-brize-norton-security-breach/

Yes, I suppose it would be more 'dangerous' inasmuch as running the risk of incurring custodial sentences is concerned; those women -Andrea Needham, Joanna Wilson, Lotta Kronlid and Angie Zelter- were remanded in custody for months before eventually being acquitted by a jury after a week long trial on the grounds of defense that they were acting to prevent British Aerospace and the British Government from aiding and abetting genocide.
Many who engage in direct action believe this is a risk worth taking.

I see you didn't address my first point.

Govem that I guess it'd pretty clear now that the idea is direct action on anything that flies in a military paint scheme is ok, , because it must be "bad", even if it is an aircraft that might be used to directly assist UK citizens in the event of an evacuation...

Thanks for the clarification.

We have people pulling stunts like this here in Ireland at Shannon Airport. Which the Americans have used as a transit hub for munitions , victims of torture and so on. Ireland is supposed to be neutral , so more luck to them I say.

People did this back in the day at Greenham Common , they have been vindicated by the later disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq, Libya and Syria which resulted in millions of refugees. It would be interesting to hear the views of Reform voters on the latter subject.

Alltheprettyseahorses · Yesterday 18:13
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"There is no genocide in Gaza ffs,"

Ffs there is a genocide in Gaza being live streamed daily before our eyes. And our Government are complicit.

You want to go up in that plane after your quick fix?

Have you seen it confirmed what the damage with crowbars was?

Any paint was in the exhaust. A jet exhaust that burns at 600 degrees C. Someone will check the engines out and it will be fine. Won't need a new engine. People huffing about it but it really is a poor security problem. Good news is it was a couple of people on ebikes with paint not some suicide bombers or foreign agents with Novichok nerve agent.

The damaged engine will have to be stripped down and checked.Aviation procedures are strict and have to be adhered too it's not going to be a quick once over and off you go .

I wouldn't go in their car after a quick fix on the engine under the bonnet.

The engine's been contaminated. It will have to be disassembled, cleaned and inspected before it's considered airworthy. It's the same as if it had ingested volcanic ash or any other contaminant.

And they sprayed the inside of the engine, not the exhaust. Not that it matters, any contamination would have to go through the same remediation procedure.

https://theaviationist.com/2025/06/20/raf-brize-norton-protesters/

Images that surfaced on Jun. 20, 2025, following the breach, showed the starboard rear section of a Voyager KC3 covered in paint splatters, while the inside of the starboard engine was thoroughly covered in paint.

Problem is to "check the engine out" can mean a multitude of things depending on how much paint got into the back end of the thing and possibly penetrated into, for want of a better expression, the deeper workings, behind seals and elsewhere.

One end of the scale the engineers might be happy with quick clean of some sort and then once over with a boroscope, if there are deeper concerns it might well be an engine change so that the unit can go into the workshop, possibly even back to the manufacturer for a complete strip down and rebuild...

A complicating issue is the 330 is a twin engined long range aircraft, that means verses a four engined type you have very strict rules and regs about engine maintenance and less tolerance to very minor damage.

TBH we may never know (unless maybe there's a court case and costs come up) the exact level of damage and what any fix involved.

Just have a little think about that. What if one of the dictators around the world and god knows there's a few to choose from decided to attack us directly? What would we use for defence?

Well, it's not working out well for them.

Good intentions 🤯

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don't understand the fox thing.

It's an exploding head not a fox 😁

😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm clearly not good with emojis.

Hmph. The cynic in me wonders if there's an element of false flag to this, given that organisations problematic to the state are often infiltrated by state employees. And several terrorist plots in the States have been instigated by said infiltrators engineering enough evidence to bring the potential culprits in before said plot could be executed. Heroes all round eh? Apart from the grooming of some particularly vulnerable souls in person and online.

If not, time to upgrade security as a matter of urgency.

Back in the day my dear friend spent three weeks at Greenham common. Another friend Faslane. No-one was able to wander in with paint back then.

They should have been shot.

Entering military, nuclear and other high consequence sites without permission should should be a death sentance, either during or after the event.

Red lines should be drawn and adhered to.

Throw soup at paintings all day long if it makes you happy, this is a diferent ballgame.

I'm not sure how to even begin to answer your first point....

As for the second, there's no mystery about the poor security, it's been worrying a lot of people for years, it's been an increasing worry in the last few months, (Russia, Ukraine etc) and I'm sure I've bored people senseless in a few previous posts explaining why it's got so bad...

Sometimes things are exactly as they appear.

Oh, you're probably right, but these days nothing would surprise me is all.

I suppose it's just the "how the hell could that have happened?" incredulity of it. If we now get a slew of reports about how easy it is to get into alleged secure facilities, I'll happily campaign for better security and funding.

We can't protect our shores, we cant protect our children and now we can't protect our Military bases... embarrassing

How the hell could that happen. Watching the mess when a young lad took pot shots at trump. And another nut hid on the golf course.

In the first instance the local police warned the special agents there was someone on the rooftop.

It's complacency. Maybe caused by lack of funds for Intel. Or perhaps arrogance.

I think one thing to bear in mind is a few (quite low in places) fences and the odd "do not enter" sign only make these secure facilities secure from law abiding citizens..

There are plenty of places (even some civilian airfields) that have better protection than Brize appears to have had.