Drone rangers step up
DEFENCE CHIEFS are stepping up training to counter enemy drone threats and integrate the latest uncrewed aerial systems into British battlefield kit.
DEFENCE CHIEFS are stepping up training to counter enemy drone threats and integrate the latest uncrewed aerial systems into British battlefield kit.
IS glory for first time in 8 years
It’s 75 years since the Berlin Blockade heralded the start of the Cold War. Here Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork explains how the RAF helped the besieged city decide its own destiny
First Navy F-35 crews join 617 Sqn onboard carrier
A NEW radar which will allow Typhoon pilots to locate, identify and suppress enemy air defences has taken to the skies for the first time.
RAuxAF 100th tribute unveiled at RAF Club
A DOMINANT RAF stormed to Inter-Services team glory after winning all three days of heated wakeboard and waterski competition at Box End Aqua Park in Bedford.
‘We need to find our identity,’ says new rugby chief
A FOGGY, wet and windy Yorkshire Dales could not dampen the ardour of RAF orienteer championship winners Sqn Ldr Philip Johnston-Davis and Flt Lt Charlie Elliss.
A BATTLING second place to the US Army was the reward for the Service’s esports team in the Code Bowl 2024 event in Washington.
THE RANKS of Churchill’s ‘Few’, who saved the nation from a Nazi invasion in 1940, have increased following the decision to add a new name to the roll of honour.
HIGH-FLYING CADET Amelia Richardson is on her way to fulfilling her RAF dream after gaining her private pilot’s licence.
A REPLICA Spitfire ‘flew in’ to the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne this month, helped by a giant crane supplied by a local business boss.
MILITARY INSTRUCTORS have returned from Africa where they delivered the first information operations course to the Nigerian Air Force.
CONINGSBY-BASED MILITARY hound Ivan has been named the Services’ Top Dog after a canine showdown at Honington.
BOMBER BOY Geoffrey Payne is hoping for a mail shot to mark
Drill’s a Joint effort
UK SURVEILLANCE specialists have taken part in Nato’s first anti-ballistic missile drill.
RAF retain carp angling title
Wg Cdr who was awarded the DFC & Bar dies aged 102
Top author Macintyre’s analysis of the most famous live TV footage of the 1980s
THE FAMILY of a Nuclear Test veteran who died six years ago have received his medal at a surprise ceremony organised by the RAF.
OTHER RANKS could find themselves in the top jobs following the introduction of the RAF’s new Lead scheme.
ONE OF the RAF’s longest-serving logistics experts drew a crowd of international military personnel as he bade farewell to Forces life.
THE SERVICE’S Festival of Football saw Leeming and Brize Norton winning the men’s and women’s five-a-side cup titles respectively.
THERE WAS a battling defeat for the Service’s men’s and women’s teams at the Inter-Service Championships at Formby Golf Club.
A NARROW margin saw the Service’s first urban orienteer team succumb to the Army in the IS championship urban edition at the Salford City Race.
IT’S THE time of year all eyes look towards Halton House as the RAF Sports Directorate announces its nominations for next months awards ceremony.
A £20 million programme to replace Mount Pleasant’s Foxtrot taxiway has been given the green light by MoD chiefs.
WITTERING THREW open the gates to the local community for the station’s annual formal reception.
THE RAF Museum is recruiting junior super sleuths this half-term with its Cold War Spies week of fun-packed adventures.
A SPITFIRE joined the Red Arrows in the skies above Duxford as the RAF aerobatic aces performed the final display of their landmark 60th season.
AIR DESPATCHERS whose predecessors were killed trying to resupply troops during the ill-fated Operation Market Garden returned to Arnhem 80 years after the battle.
A VETERAN who played a key role in the RAF’s first circumnavigation of the world is to be welcomed back to the airbase he took off from.