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  • Draken lands deal

    AERO-GIANT DRAKEN has landed a £173 million defence contract to provide ‘aggressor’ aircraft to train Air Force combat pilots.

  • Halton return for Sefton Brancker

    THE 93RD Sefton Brancker cross-country race at RAF Halton kicked off the Service sport’s first event of the year with a battling second place for the Air Force.

  • Get on board with growing sport

    THE SERVICE’S skateboarding fraternity’s push to become a recognised sport will see it run monthly jam sessions throughout the year under the title ‘Skate-alive in 25’.

  • Man U date for RAF Elite coach

    WOLVES WOMEN’S football manager Sgt Dan McNamara believes his team’s FA cup fifth round tie with Manchester United is vindication of the RAF Sports Federation’s Elite Athlete programme.

  • WE THREE KINGS

    The RAF coaches who have helped UK Armed Forces football to reign supreme for a decade

  • Covenant ban lifted

    MILITARY PERSONNEL can now have their say on the Armed Forces Covenant after defence chiefs lifted restrictions allowing them to give evidence to a government committee.

  • Ready steady Do-ha

    UK PERSONNEL promoting security in the Gulf on Operation Kipion braved searing heat as they hit the road for the annual Doha marathon.

  • Cats eye Protector

    PERSONNEL DUBBED the ‘Stabbed Cats’ because of their squadron emblem got a sneak preview of their latest aircraft at a Lincolnshire airbase.

  • High stakes in Vegas

    UK COMBAT JETS are taking part in the world’s biggest annual air combat drill as Exercise Red Flag takes off in America in its 50th year.

  • Afghan bomb hero signs on

    A FORMER soldier who lived through two bomb attacks in Afghanistan and went on to set up a charity battling PTSD has been brought in to give rookie aircrew advice on how to survive in the combat zone.

  • It's Game on for Invictus

    INVICTUS GAMES athletes got in some late training at Tamworth Snowdome ahead of the 2025 event at Vancouver, Canada, this month.

  • Tedder win

    AIR FORCE instructors at Cranwell have won a top award for teaching.

  • Band tribute

    MUSICIANS WILL perform to remember 21 colleagues who died in a road crash 40 years ago.