The Royal Air Force is for the first time using the “spoils of war” captured from Argentina in the 1982 Falklands Conflict to provide aircraft and parts in front-line squadrons. A senior RAF ...
In addition to the aircraft, the service will provide training and maintenance, and brand new purpose-built buildings at RAF Brize Norton, the RAF’s air transport hub. Based on the Airbus A330 ...
RAF jets have intercepted Russian military aircraft for the second day in a row. Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and a Voyager air-to-air fuel tanker from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire ...
On Friday, Typhoons from Lossiemouth responded to Russian aircraft in a similar situation. A Voyager tanker supported the Typhoons in the latest incident. The tanker from RAF Brize Norton in ...
RAF aircraft ferry troops to and from the island and contribute to tri-service exercises in the area. Nearby Ascension Island houses a permanent station for the RAF, which serves as a vital ...
Fighter Command was one of three functional commands – along with Bomber Command and Coastal Command – of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of ...
RAF may have to recall three Voyager aircraft to transport migrants to ... which are flying to the Mediterranean back into military service.' It comes as Rishi Sunak faces criticism that he ...
Two Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland were despatched to monitor the Russian Bear-F aircraft. The Russian reconnaissance plane had been detected in the UK’s “area of interest” but it ...