Russian missiles overwhelmed the British military in an simulated air attack, it has emerged, prompting calls for homeland defence to be beefed up.
In 2022, the RAF simulated the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine as if the air attack were playing out against the UK. Some of the missiles are understood to have got through the defences.
Air Commodore Blythe Crawford, who until last week was head of the RAF Air and Space Warfare Centre, said the military had assumed before the exercise that the UK was safe.
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He told the Royal United Services Institute: “We have stood for years at the western edge of Europe feeling as though the rest
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