U.S. and U.K. military personnel have been actively monitoring installations around and airspace over Royal Air Force Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Feltwell and RAF Fairford for mysterious small drones that have been repeatedly spotted near those bases since Nov. 20 and are yet to be attributed to any adversarial or other sources.| DefenseScoop
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These strikes mark the first to be authorized by U.K. leaders during President Donald Trump’s second presidency.| DefenseScoop
