Space tech upgrade
INNOVATIVE UK˜MADE tech will help the military monitor space following a new £65 million deal.
INNOVATIVE UK˜MADE tech will help the military monitor space following a new £65 million deal.
Flying centenary bouts
AIR MARSHAL Sir John Walker, who has died aged 88, was a Cold War fighter pilot and one of the RAF’s foremost thinkers on the employment of offensive air power.
DOES MASS or area bombing ever work? In theory, by terrorising the civilians, it should shred morale and the willingness to fight, turning the population against the political masters that have led them to disaster.
TYPHOONS BASED in the Middle East have escorted US Air Force bombers on training sorties to the Gulf region.
THE FIRST Nato graduates from the new Protector training centre got their badges of honour at Waddington.
THE RED Arrows will lead a flypast of historic aircraft over London to launch the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
VICTIMS OF one of what was the world’s worst air disaster travelled from all over Wales to remember the dead 75 years on.
SERVICE CYCLING has set out its stall for the 2025 season, naming four teams to compete at all levels with the aim of bringing home Inter-Service crowns.
AS1 CONNOR Poole stormed to glory at the recent Bench Press Championships to kick off the RAF Powerlifting Association’s year.
THE SENIOR women’s rugby union stars took full advantage of a week’s training camp at RAF Northolt, sharpening skills ahead of the highly-anticipated Inter-Services championship.
THE ODI100 event rang the final bell on the 23-year Service boxing career of Sqn Ldr Andy Parker.
AIR FORCE boxing legend Dick McTaggart dies.
ADVANCED attack drones will be sent to Ukraine following a deal struck by the UK government and an Anglo-American defence company.
A BLACK Eagle monument marking where an RAF Regiment Rapier unit fought during the Falklands War has been rededicated near Stanley.
LOTTO PLAYERS can strike it lucky at the RAF Museum as the venue slashes the cost of entry to its stunning flight simulator and 4-D cinema.
BRITISH AND American aircrews practised anti-submarine warfare during an exercise in Sicily.
THE ROMAN Catholic Bishop of the Armed Forces, The Right Reverend Paul Mason, has visited British Service Personnel currently deployed on operations in the Middle East.
Atlas & Voyager team up on Antarctic mission
SERVICE WOMEN’S senior footballers are heading to Gibraltar for their last pre-Inter-Service training camp before the team set their sights on an historic fifth championship win.
RAF FENCING Union unveiled its groundbreaking ‘En Garde Sister’ project at Cosford to inspire a new generation of female athletes to the sport.
ABOVE ALL, Courage was first published in 1985 and contained 30 groundbreaking interviews with participants of the Falklands War. It was then very raw and recent.
Typhoon techs lift rookie's F1 dream
A TRUST set up in memory of an RAF Intelligence officer who died in a Lynx helicopter crash in Afghanistan has donated more than £30,000 to rebuild a school in Nepal which was devastated by an earthquake.
But star of show won’t be getting any more beers in
AN RAF officer has won a prestigious award for her dedication to the success of UK air operations.
“This is the first time we’re running a women’s focused event. We want to offer a safe and welcoming environment for women to come along, try a new sport and hopefully find something they have a passion for.
CPL BRAD Axe will be looking for revenge as he returns to the ring in a rematch for Team UK against an American opponent.
THE RAF Association’s ‘virtual’ fitness challenge is back for 2025.
RAF BMX were in the frame to kick-start their season at Manchester International Cycling Centre.
TWO DAYS of near domination saw the RAF’s ice sports stars return home with all but one team gold from the recent Inter-Services championships in Lillehammer.
THREE MILITARY nurses sprang a birthday surprise on an ex-RAF nurse.
INSTRUCTORS WITH the RAF’s Central Flying School have returned from a visit to Africa.
WORK IS well underway on the £2 million restoration of the historic steeple of St Clement Danes Church, the RAF church in The Strand, London.
A NEW defence innovation body to deliver military tech to British forces is to be launched after talks at an RAF station.
VOYAGER TANKERS have been keeping the fighters in the battle alongside aircraft from across the world during Exercise Cobra Warrior.