What do we actually know about the alleged RAF Fairford plot and how serious was it?

So, as you said, details are still fairly limited.

We know that on the 27th of September, five UK nationals aged between 20 and 23 were arrested in the Welford area near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

Firstly, they were arrested under the Explosives Act and then subsequently arrested under further terrorist suspicions.

However, following ongoing investigations by Counter Terrorism Police in UK, it was later found that there were in fact no explosives in the vehicles and instead they found a significant quantity of fuel.

The motivations and possible kind of like additional actors behind this, again, are still very much unconfirmed at this point.

But from our perspective and our analysis, The target selection of the of the incident.

But what else? What is the sort of standing of the UK's readiness in this regard to face these kind of threats?