Keflavik is under attack. Confirmed: the French air defence battery has been destroyed. There are casualties. Runway is cratered at both ends.
I am fifteen kilometres away and I can see it.
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@taipei_ming · 9 Feb 2026 · 06:00
They destroyed the air defences first, then the aircraft, then cratered the runway, then landed.
I have read that sequence in staff college papers about my own island for twenty years. Watching it executed on a NATO member at four in the morning has been the single worst hour of my life as a citizen of this place.
What was happening
9 February 2026 · in the recordOperation Northern HingeAster interceptors light the sky over Reykjanes at 02:40 UTC. By 11:20 the British commander surrenders with his ammunition gone. By 15:30 there are armed cordons around the Althin…