A former British defense minister warns the UK is unprepared for a major drone attack and urges the government to invest in a system like Israel's 'Iron Dome'. The warning comes amid increased security concerns about drone incursions near military bases and heightened fears of a Russian attack.
Britain is woefully unprepared for a major drone assault and needs its own Israel-style ' Iron Dome ' to protect itself, a former Tory defence minister has warned. Tobias Ellwood feared the UK had no adequate way to shield itself from a full-scale invasion of explosive kamikaze drones - like those seen bombing Ukraine and Israel. It comes amid mysterious sightings of unmanned aerial vehicles - UAVs - brazenly circling military bases in the UK and US, which have prompted alarm.
Mr Ellwood - a former chairman of the Commons defence committee - warned Britain needed to 'wake up' and 'recognise our critical national infrastructure is so exposed'. 'Why don't we have an Iron Dome capability? Because these are just passive drones flying over a runway causing disruption,' he told LBC's Tom Swarbrick. 'Imagine as I say if something far more powerful, more kinetic such as one of those Iranian drones were to be launched from the English Channel. 'What protection do we have there? We don't. And that I'm afraid is the very dark world that we're now entering.' His warning came as a senior military chief this week warned the UK had 'never been more at risk of an attack from Russia' - as he laid out the Doomsday scenario of how the Kremlin would bombard Britain. Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip in January Tobias Ellwood, a former defence minister, warned Britain needed its own Iron Dome to stop future drone incursions (he is pictured on LBC on Monday) Writing for Mail+, General Sir Richard Shirreff warned Britain could be overrun by Russia in a week and that the nation must desperately start preparing for war. The former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe feared the UK would be vulnerable to a barrage of hypersonic missiles, capable of ripping through the sky at 11 times the speed of sound, which could obliterate London. 'You might regard it as scaremongering,' he wrot
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