Not strictly true… Russian vessels be it merchant or naval have the right to transit for example the English Channel under the UN Conventions of the law of the sea. As long as the meaning of ’ Innocent Passage ’ is adhered to. How much of that goes on who knows but when did you last hear of a Russian vessel being denied such passage?
The EU is currently trying to draft a resolution on banning Russian tankers but noting is concrete yet.
I think the point is… just like Gatwick, there are no drones
No evidence, no nothing
Anyone see the video taken at Manchester Airport the other day ? WTF sort of drone was that ?
It wasn’t a drone it was a UFO with Aliens inside
FFS…
He must buy a lot of tin foil in one year! 
“Says expert”
FFS 
Looks like a mark on the lens to me.
You get reported drones (however dubious) at East Angllan airbases, and it’s looney tunes time as mass hysteria takes hold. The Russians, sorry, I mean, ‘a certain power’, our main hate focus at the moment, are blamed for starlings and dirty camera lenses.
It is reasonable to assume that ‘a certain power’ is monitoring military airbases in the UK, and has been doing so continually and successfully since 1945. It is also reasonable to assume that we are monitoring theirs. The Ukraine situation has taken us back to Cold War thinking and sabre-rattilng, and both us and the ‘certain power’ feel threatened.
They are, as my old dad said once, all our friends. The ‘certain power’ is a friend with a loaded gun at our heads, and the Americans are a friend with a fist clenched tightly around our bollocks ('grab ‘em by the balls, and their hearts and minds will follow’, Henry Kissinger),
The ‘certain power’ can and frequently does sail merchant ships into our ports in the normal course of trade, a good bit of our imported timber arrives this way. It can and does fly civil aircraft into our airports, both commercial and private, and it’s citizens invest in our businesses and own large amounts of property here. Again, this has been happening since 1945.
They even send naval ships on courtesy visits; I recall a male voice choir from one of their destroyers visiting Cardiff in the 90s busking in the town centre. They were bloody good, too, and we know a bit about male voice choirs in Wales…
If the sparrows were hostile drones, how could they possibly have flown from the ‘certain power’ across a border that is probably the most heavily monitored on the planet and then several hundred miles across Europe and the North Sea without detection? With all due respect to UKVeteran, it sounds a bit ‘reds under the bed’ to me! Aliens are actually more likely…
Dozens of 'em, the size of dining room tables (and American dining room tables have to cater to dining Americans, so they are BIG!!!. I’m going to stick my neck out and say that these things are not starlings…
Somebody is (allegedly) flying ‘dozens’ of big drones, which probably means not hobby drones, in this area, and it can hardly be an individual hobbyist. It doesn’t sound like any sort of secret squirrel operation either, not with lights on and over a densely populated area where there are loads of witnesses. The next thing I thought of was criminal delivery activity of some sort, but again, the lights and general visibility of the drones make it unlikely.
If it’s not Amazon, it’s probably aeroplanes on a flight path that they don’t normally use because the wind is in an unusual direction; there will be dozens, one after another, and they have lights on them. Or aliens; anyone been probed yet? Watch the skies…
Or maybe Google Earth updating their image database?which they do regularly. And they do overfly military areas, at least they. Do in the UK.
Just see this pop up on news feed regarding lakenheath & a few other airbase’s,
# Government places drone restrictions over 11 military sites
I noticed a flurry of new NOTAMS and FRZs, lately summarised by this guys post recently.
@D0c.Col I’ve moved your video to the thread where these were discussed recently 
Ah that explains This which was my initial thoughts which was shown on his list in the video.
Me neither i was working:)
I personally think its pay back for yhe usa dji drone ban. Especially ovet in yhe states
Went back to the above youtube video because there was a helicopter pilot in the comments that was going to share all the Airprox reports they had raised from nearly hitting drones flying in the wrong areas. Video creator asked for them so he could look into it and discuss them. The comments seem to have completely vanished now 
Edit: Looks like I still had the video open in another tab and it hadnt refreshed.
still no pictures… dashcam / plane cockpit recordings… something!
