Military planes – believed to be US Marine Corps Super Hercules – have now been spotted at Glasgow Airport.
Two US military planes have been spotted touching down at Glasgow Airport amid the war with Iran. The conflict has been raging on since February 28 when the United States and Israel launched a series of brutal strikes against Iran.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other Iranian officials were killed in the initial strikes. Iran later responded with missile and drone strikes against Israel, US bases and other allied countries in the Middle East.
Military planes – believed to be US Marine Corps Super Hercules – have now been spotted at Glasgow Airport. Photographs, supplied from passengers ready to jet off on their holidays, show the two aircrafts on the tarmac yesterday afternoon.
This comes after US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran’s bridges and power plants on social media. On his Truth Social page, Trump ordered Iran to “open the f**kin’ Strait [of Hormuz]” – through which around a fifth of the world’s oil and gas transits – or otherwise face hell.
US military planes were also seen last month at the Scottish Government-owned Prestwick Airport – which has previously been a major hub for American forces jetting across the Atlantic. US Air Force cargo planes and massive C-17 Globemaster planes, as well as two C-130 Hercules from the Canadian Air Force, were pictured on the runway within days.
In February, our sister title, The Sunday Mail, revealed that US military flights had landed at Prestwick Airport 550 times in just 10 months. First Minister John Swinney followed this by saying he would consider banning US air force flights landing at the airport.
He said: “UK Government actions must be about de-escalating the situation, and I am also actively looking at what the Scottish Government can do to de-escalate the situation, including seeking urgent clarification from the UK Government about the military use of Prestwick Airport.”
Scottish Greens external affairs spokesperson Patrick Harvie previously welcomed Swinney’s comment that he would consider banning the US military from using Prestwick.
He said: “There is frankly no need to wait till he has details on the precise missions of specific flights – information he may never get. If he accepts that the war is illegal, which he seems to, then he should be doing the responsible thing and blocking US forces now.
“There is no excuse for letting Donald Trump’s military use Prestwick as a base for his aggression. When US forces are using government-owned airports at the rate they are, then it is clearly providing assistance to operations that the First Minister knows to be illegal and profoundly dangerous.
“The Spanish government has already blocked the US military, and we should be doing the same.”
Prestwick Airport was previously used to welcome Air Force One during President Donald Trump’s visit to Scotland. It was also used by Vice President JD Vance during his visit.
Last month, Keir Starmer agreed to a request to allow US planes to use British military bases to strike Israeli sites. But the UK Prime Minister said the UK “will not join offensive action” in Iran, adding: “We all remember the mistakes of Iraq and we have learned those lessons.”
Glasgow Airport and the Scottish Government have been approached for comment.
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