Anyone else in Dubai on holiday? AIBU to be panicking with all the flights cancelled?

[tiantian1005]

Not sure when we can go home..anyone has managed to for example drive to nearby countries and fly from there?

where is this news from?

That's so much better than being stuck in Dubai!

The Defence Secretary.

Maybe look it up.

There's also a proxy conflict between Iran and the UAE in Sudan.

obivously i did
no need to act in this superior manner.

@RedToothBrush
the issue is for people stuck in Dubai
not for your knowledge unhelpful

Hi Eleanor, it was on the BBC news, just now.

Confirmed in an interview with John Healey on Sky News.

Being repeated all over twitter.

Cyprus isn't in NATO but the British bases there are.

(Article 5 considerations here).

@AtIusvue a nice reminder there of the type of country Dubai is ! In both way

I'm not repeating bollocks. I source stuff properly thanks. Going 'ohh where have you got something so significant from I don't believe you' isn't helpful either.

It's everywhere on the internet. Like totally viral.

are the cyprus airbases on the eu side?

Actually, John Healey said those two missiles were flying 'in the direction of Cyprus' (which could be interpreted as being in the direction of Israel before they got anywhere near Cyprus) and that there isn't any actual evidence they were deliberately aimed AT Akrotiri. Headlines (eg the annoying pop-up that the Independent seems to have installed on my laptop!) have been very clickbaity but really, there seems no concrete reason to think the RAF base on Cyprus was deliberately targeted.

Really hope not, anyway.

but it is not relevant. to the op.
should she ever come back.

bloody hell, of course they are! 'North Cyprus' is an illegal occupation by Turkey, it's not actually internationally recognised.

The RAF base is at Akroriti, the jutting out peninsula on the Republic of Cyprus' south coast, midway between Larnaca and Limassol.

It's relevant to anyone thinking of travelling to Cyprus who may be reading this thread too because they are slightly nervous about the situation.

That's fairly reasonable in terms of considering other travellers as well as the OP.

And yes it's relevant to the OP in terms of the scope of current disruption to airspace and how serious it is / how long it may take to resolve.

I'm sorry you disapprove of my comments on the situation.

What he actually said was that they were ‘fired in the direction of Cyprus, but not necessarily targeting the country’

What an unhelpful thing to say. I hope next time something unfortunate happens to you someone is there to say ‘I told you so’. I hope your children don’t turn out to be as judgemental and you. As if there isn’t already enough negativity going on in the world. You have made yourself sound completely uneducated. i especially liked the eloquent ‘fart’ comment.

Quite. Nobody wants accuracy to get in the way of some scaremongering, though do they.

Of course it’s possible the missiles were aimed at Cyprus, but at this stage it’s important to know that this is not what was said by the Defence Secretary. That might change.

Hmm. Yes. If he'd have said yes it was targeting Cyprus, what do you think that would do to pressure on government in terms of its actions with Iran? He can't actually say 'iran was firing at us but we aren't doing anything else about it' especially after we've made a big point of not supporting Trump and calling it an illegal war can he?

And given the targeting of Oman I hardly think it's just a 'oh well they might have had a stray missile or two going towards a British base'.

It's a really awkward and difficult point for the British. We clearly don't want to get involved but Iran want to drag everyone into this - otherwise why target hotels in Dubai...

Hmmm. Yes. Definitely not at Cyprus.

Yes I'm aware and I guess I should probably have expanded on that in that post...

As you say Israel/US looks like having air superiority/even supremacy over a large part of Iran so IMO it's going to be increasingly difficult for what's left of Iran's missile force to operate...basically we are are talking about big missiles usually carried on and launched from a big truck, possibly take time to set up and so can be relatively easy to detect and interdict.

The problem with the Shahed style drones is that whilst they are small and less lethal than the missiles they can be launched from something the size of a small truck/RV and the launch platform doesn't need to be exposed for long, if at all, during launch....

Air superiority/supremacy or not there's a chance the drones will last longer as a threat to adjacent states than the medium range missiles.

I’m not qualified to comment on the politics. I was correcting the emphatic assertion made that this is what had been said. I think it’s really important that facts are passed on accurately, that’s all.

OH we were discussing the base last night. This is a new complication

Yep. True.

But even then.

They still need trained men to launch them.

And they still have factories to build them.

Where do you hide these thousands of drones too. They are unlikely to be allowed individually hidden away.

All drones launched can be traced backwards to these sites.

As others have said a basic statement of "fired in the direction of Cyprus" tells us almost nothing.

Do they let the Americans use it sometimes? I saw on a map of us current locations a battleship not far from the Cypriot coast.