Hardened aircraft shelters and the resources needed to protect airbases

Cost objections to hardened aircraft shelters are criticised for overlooking the consequences of inadequate protection. Ukrainian attacks on Russian airbases provide the warning example, alongside a panel recollection of British airbase break-ins. A related criticism is that the RAF assigns the RAF Regiment protection responsibilities without sufficient funding or equipment. That argument invokes an account of another force dealing with airbase protection in Afghanistan when RAF protection proved insufficient. The force is not clearly identified in the passage, so the example remains a qualified account of support between services. Jokes about the distance to a naval air station in Cornwall and confusing the Yeovilton museum with the airbase illustrate access difficulties; they do not establish that those sites need no protection.