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Five terrifying ways enemies would hit Britain if it goes to war laid bare in official report

Published on June 02, 2025 at 04:26 PM

BRITAIN would get blitzed with long-range drones, ballistic and cruise missiles if it had to fight a war this year.

A landmark set out five “methods of attack”; the UK should expect if it was forced into state-on-state conflict.

The test firing of an ICBM belonging to Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces
Drone in flight.
A drone is seen during a Russian aerial strike in Kyiv
Hacker using laptop to attack software.
Everything from oil rigs and subsea cables to satellites and merchant ships would also face cyber attacks
Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launchers at a military parade in Moscow.
Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launchers roll on Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9 last year
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and two others in hard hats and safety vests.
Defence Secretary John Healey (left) and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer listen to Type 26 Programme Director, BAE Systems David Shepherd (right)

Bases, ports and airfields in Britain and around the world be the first to get bombarded.

And everything from oil rigs and subsea cables to satellites and merchant ships would also face

The dossier warned: “Based on the current way of war, if the UK were to fight a state-on-state war as part of Nato in 2025, it could expect to be subject to some or all of the following methods of attack:

“Attacks on the armed forces in the UK and overseas bases.”;


Strategic Defence Review: Five Key Defence Pledges

  • Up to 12 new nuclear-powered submarines to be built under the Aukust pact
  • £15bn investment in the UK’s nuclear warhead programme to maintain and modernise the deterrent
  • New Cyber Command to be established, with £1 billion invested in digital warfare capabilities
  • Up to 7,000 UK-built long-range weapons to be purchased, supporting 800 defence jobs
  • More than £1.5bn in extra funding to repair and renew armed forces housing

Major bases would include the as well as outposts around the world, such as the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean and RAF Akoritiri in Cyprus.

The report also warned of: “Air and missile attack from long-rage drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, targeting military infrastructure and critical national infrastructure in the UK.”;

The UK has no land based missile defence systems and relies on its six Royal Navy destroyers to intercept ballistic or hypersonic missile which Russia has used to blitz Ukraine.

But the government has pledged to to “protect the homeland”;.

Other attacks in an all out war would include “increased sabotage and cyber-attacks affecting on and offshore critical national infrastructure.”;

Two former Royal Navy mine sweepers docked at Portsmouth Naval Base.
Two former Royal Navy mine sweepers dock at Portsmouth Naval Base
Royal Navy ship at HMS Drake maintenance depot.
Devonport Royal Navy maintenance depot at HMS Drake, Plymouth
HMS Vigilant submarine at HM Naval Base Clyde.
Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant, one of the UK’s four nuclear warhead-carrying submarines, at HM Naval Base Clyde

The report warns Britain is already “under daily attack”; in the so-called grey zone, which includes cyber hacks and sabotage .

It also warned the citizens to expect “attempts to disrupt the UK economy, especially the industry that supports the armed forces, including through the interdiction of maritime trade, and attacks on space-based critical national infrastructure”;.

Finally, it warned the UK would face a massive propaganda blitz designed “to manipulate information and undermine social cohesion and political will.”;

The review sets out plans to grow the , renew Britain’s nukes and recruit up to 250,000 cadets to get the country ready for “whole of society approach”; to defence and resilience.

warned that, “a step change in the threats we face demands a step-change in British defence to meet them”;.

He added: “We need to see the biggest shift in mindset in my lifetime to put security and defence front and centre – to make it the fundamental organising principle of government.”;

Vladimir Putin at a meeting announcing a successful missile test.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, 2024
Plymouth waterfront with many boats moored and apartment buildings in the background.
Bases, ports and airfields in Britain and around the world be the first to get bombarded
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launching from a site in Plesetsk, Russia.
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired as part of Russia’s nuclear drills

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