{"id":302590,"date":"2026-10-05T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=302590"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:06:00","slug":"us-removes-all-air-force-bombers-from-uk-base-following-new-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/302590\/","title":{"rendered":"US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/04\/politics\/us-air-force-bombers-removed-fairford-iran\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We can acknowledge now that all U.S. bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States,&rdquo; the official told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>He noticed that it is unusual that the US military would move the bombers back to their home stations instead of deploying them to another base in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Ministry of Defense declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Air Force base at Fairford has been used to deploy US B-1 bombers involved in the war against Iran and is an operating location for US Global Strike Command, which is tasked with managing long-distance strikes.<\/p>\n<p>CNN national security analyst Alex Plitsas said it was likely several dozen bombers were stationed at Fairford, adding that it was unusual to move all the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It speaks to the credibility and the seriousness of the threat overall to the base that we&rsquo;re talking about,&rdquo; he told Ben Hunte on CNN Newsroom.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed, CNN reports. &ldquo;We can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":302584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302594,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302590\/revisions\/302594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}