Arctic role
UK LIGHTNING stealth fighters launched combat training missions across Nato’s high north alongside more than 100 fighters from across the Alliance during Exercise Nordic Response.
UK LIGHTNING stealth fighters launched combat training missions across Nato’s high north alongside more than 100 fighters from across the Alliance during Exercise Nordic Response.
PERSONNEL FROM Brize Norton have volunteered their time to support the Standing with Giants project marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
NATO CHIEFS have mobilised more than 90,000 military personnel for Exercise Steadfast Defender, including 20,000 from the UK Armed Forces.
THE UK’S heavy-lift helicopter capability will be bolstered by 14 extended-range Chinooks under a £2 billion deal with US defence giant Boeing.
A VINTAGE Gnat like those flown by the Red Arrows in their first season in 1965 took to the skies over Waddington alongside the present-day team’s Hawks as the Air Force aerobatic aces prepare for their 60th anniversary season.
ATLAS PILOT Flt Lt Jamie Jackson celebrated 3,000 hours on the RAF’s heavyweight transporter with a spectacular flight through the famous Mach Loop in West Wales.
AIR FORCE mountain rescue teams winched an 18-year-old hiker to safety in a 16-hour mission after efforts to haul him from a freezing stream by a Coastguard helicopter failed.
A FIRST place was the perfect start to the cycling season for Cpl Sarah Toms as she took the senior class women’s crown in the Kings Lynn MTB club race.
BIG-HEARTED AMY Briggs hit the road in Cyprus to raise more than £2,000 in memory of Air Force pal Cpl Richard McLellan, who took his own life in 2023.
INJURED AND disabled veterans could receive grants following the launch of a Forces mobility fund.
UK BATTLESPACE specialists based in the US are supporting Coalition operations by monitoring airspace across the Middle East from North Carolina.
AIR FORCE stations are set to go head to head as welfare chiefs announce the shortlist for this year’s RAF Benevolent Fund awards, hosted by actor Alistair Petrie.
F-35 LIGHTNINGS have been scrambled from the UK’s flagship carrier in the High North to intercept US B-1 Bombers simulating an enemy threat in the latest Nato war games.
AIR FORCE wife Nat Haynes is on track to achieve her London Marathon hopes – after a 13-year wait.
THE RAF Museum Midlands has teamed up with local astronomers to hold a series of star-gazing events over the Easter break.
GLOBE-TROTTING Oxford Reservists scooped the Clyde Trophy for Public Relations.
HRH PRINCESS Anne has opened a permanent UK military facility at Minhad airbase in the United Arab Emirates.
MILITARY POLICE dog handler Cpl Tim Cayless and his hero hound Donna have signed off together at St Mawgan.
THE UK’S drone-busting laser weapon which can destroy enemy which can destroy enemy targets with pinpoint accuracy could be ready for the frontline by 2030, Defence boffins claims.
A LOT has been written about the Valiant, the Victor and the Vulcan, but not much about their strategic nuclear strike role.
RAF HEROES who lost their lives in one of the most daring raids of World War II have been remembered by their families in a special commemoration ceremony.
“IF I can hopefully improve RAF Ice Hockey in whatever way, that is my aim,” said Cpl Lewis McCracken after he won High Performance Athlete status in the service.
IT WAS a high-speed trophy blitz in St Moritz as the RAF’s ice sports stars celebrated another bumper Inter-Services taking home three team wins out of five.
ONE OF the few remaining Cold War bomber of its kind is on display at IWM Duxford following a five-year restoration project supported by a fundraising campaign that raised more than £25,000.
A MAN walks into a bar… and says to a journalist, “America is totally fake”.
A CLASS win in the Tunisian Masters saw Sgt David Adam continue his African running opus.
SGT DANNY Bartley described his U23 team’s 1-0 defeat as “a disappointing result and a hard one to take,” as the Navy won this year’s Inter-Services championship.
“WE ARE building,” says OIC Sgt Matt Haywood talking about the BMX team’s coming season, as they look to grow and attract new riders.
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS may have halted the last day of the RAF Natural Luge Championships in Jaufental, northern Italy, but it didn’t curtail the previous week’s action.
A 30˜22 80th anniversary match win for the French Air Force ended a run of four away losses but provided the perfect Inter-Services warm-up for the RAF.