RAF reports two unidentified drones over UK waters in February
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The Royal Air Force said an unidentified object was seen at 17,000 ft while an Airbus Voyager tanker refuelled a Typhoon fighter off Cromer, Norfolk on February 18, and a second black circular object passed about 300 ft overhead of a Typhoon practising dogfights 30 miles off Humberside on February 23.
Both objects failed to appear on radar and were operating above the 400‑ft legal limit for commercial drones, and a report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies linked the drone campaign, which ran from August 2024 to February 2026, to launches from the Kremlin’s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers carrying sanctioned fuel.