Britain marks VE Day
MODERN FIGHTERS on operations worldwide will join veteran aircraft and aerobatics aces as the RAF marks VE Day 80.
MODERN FIGHTERS on operations worldwide will join veteran aircraft and aerobatics aces as the RAF marks VE Day 80.
THE MEN’S Under 25s showed their class at HMS Temeraire in Portsmouth to record the RAF’s only Inter-Services outdoor hockey victory in a shock championships.
A first for RAF Marham's joint service rugby side
REG SEEKINGS was a major character in the hit BBC series SAS Rogue Heroes. He was one of the original members of L Detachment SAS Brigade, founded in July 1941 in North Africa by David Stirling.
FALCONS SUPPORT volunteers serving in the Gulf are hitting the fundraising trail as the Air Force parachute team prepares to launch its summer display season.
TYPHOONS WERE scrambled three times in three days from a Polish airbase to intercept aircraft leaving the Russian enclave Kaliningrad, close to Nato airspace.
AIR FORCE rookie Benn Morris stepped out on the Cranwell parade square – as the FOURTH generation of his family to serve with the RAF.
AIRLINE PILOT Stuart Green is joining forces with the son of a Great Escaper and seven other riders to follow the 300km route taken by PoWs during the Long March as Nazis retreated from Poland in World War II.
“A FANTASTIC and unique opportunity,” said RAF polo chair Wg Cdr Vicky Woodhead speaking after a training tournament at St Andrews.
THE SERVICE’S paragliders were put through their paces as the association staged its Tow Launch conversion training at MOD North Luffenham airfield.
SERVICE BMX headed to Manchester to kickstart the 2025 Summer BMX Racing Season at the home of British Cycling, the National Cycling Centre.
RAF DINGHY Racing is celebrating its first ever win in the Inter-Service Team Racing Championships.
TRANSPORT SPECIALIST AS1 Jason Wathes has been named Cosford’s Reservist of the Year after clocking up four tours in the Gulf supporting security operations across the region.
UK DEFENCE has carried out the first counter-drone strikes using high-frequency radio waves to disrupt and disable enemy operating systems.
LIVING CONDITIONS for families in military housing will be transformed under a new Consumer Charter, as Defence Secretary John Healey promises to ‘stop the rot’ in military homes.
AIR TRAFFICKERS in Cyprus have been honoured for their role supporting humanitarian relief efforts in areas of conflict and natural disaster.
THE BATTLE of Britain Memorial Flight returns to the skies this month, performing the first of more than 30 displays at the Midlands Air Show.
Biggest ever force of UK F-35s as Carrier Strike Group heads for the Indo-Pacific
RAF DIGBY hosted this year’s Martial Arts bonanza as the association staged its annual Service championship and showed off its newly-recognised sport, Muay Thai.
First time for ladies since Covid pandemic
Gunners pick up the tab at Brize for 103rd anniversary
BLUE LIGHTS and orange flames lit up the night sky at Coningsby as the Lincolnshire station’s Fire Section honed their skills.
BRITAIN’S CARRIER Strike Group – with RAF Lightnings making it one of the most powerful on the planet – has set out on an eight-month mission across the Indo-Pacific.
SCHOOLCHILDREN IN the Lossiemouth area have swept aside the competition to name their local RAF station’s fleet of snow ploughs.
Driven back deep within its own borders and helpless in the face of the relentless Bomber Command and USAAF onslaught, the crippled Nazi war machine finally capitulated after nearly six years of conflict
THE RAF men’s golf team started their season with a hard-fought draw against Gloucestershire second team at Lansdown Golf Club.
IN CONJUNCTION with the IS event, the RAF Nordic Association staged Exercise Nordic Challenge, which saw novice and experienced cross-country (XC) skiing in Norway.
THERE WAS joy for the women’s rugby union stars and pain for the men after the opening round of IS championship matches at Northampton Saints Cinch Stadium.
“THE LADS are frustrated, I’m frustrated,” said RAF Head Coach WO Tom Gardner speaking after his side’s 27-17 opening IS defeat against the Royal Navy.
SERVICE BOXING hit another high as Gp Capt Ray Morley MBE was named UKAF Official of the Year.
ATLAS CREWS based in the Falklands joined a UK environmental mission to monitor the breakaway superberg ‘A23a’ threatening wildlife and ecosystems off the South Georgia coast and the remote Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic.
BATTLEFIELD MEDICS can now treat casualties with a new portable oxygen delivery system designed to improve survival rates.
AIR FORCE mountain rescue teams responded to 16 calls, assisting 19 individuals last winter it can be revealed.
AN ATLAS aircraft made the largest air drop carried out by the RAF in the Falkland Islands from a single aircraft.
THE WING of the last known Dornier Do 17 is set to go on display 72 years after it was shot down over the Kent coast by the RAF.