Ukraine gets Gripen
IN ONE of his last acts as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer has announced the UK is investing €300 million to deliver Swedish Gripen fighters to Ukraine.
IN ONE of his last acts as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer has announced the UK is investing €300 million to deliver Swedish Gripen fighters to Ukraine.
Nathan in RAF Champ hat-trick
WHILE WILLIAM (Bill) Bradley was serving with 6 Squadron during the North African campaign in World War II, he was sketching and keeping a visual record of his time there.
Most new recruits in a Halton intake for over a decade
27 SQN Chinook crews have officially taken over as Nato’s Special Operations air unit delivering troops and kit into the combat zone.
FORCES FUNDRAISING ace Cpl Hayley Court netted a Wimbledon windfall after marking 13 years working courtside at the world-famous tennis tournament.
Hawaii live oh!
THE FALCONS jumped into action at the recent British F1 Grand Prix performing their latest aerial display in front of an estimated 300,000 crowd of race fans at Silverstone.
CPL BRAD Burn has a mountain to climb if he is to race in next year’s Isle of Man TT.
RAF AND UKAF rugby union star AS1 Daisy Aspinall made it an aviator one-two after joining Premiership Women’s Rugby team Harlequins for the new season.
WINTER SPORT was the order of the day as sliders battled the recent heatwave for the Service’s annual skeleton trials at the University of Bath.
Swimmers conquer France AND beat the Germans… from Shakespeare Beach
RAF TRIATHLON legend FS Scott Hill produced a first and second place in two summer events and hopes he will inspire others to take up his beloved sport.
THE RED Arrows hit New York’s Times Square ahead of their spectacular aerobatic display over the Statue of Liberty to mark the USA’s 250th anniversary of Independence.
WORLD CUP fever hit Nato this month as military football stars went head to head at Gloucester Barracks.
THE RAF Museum Midlands is putting on cost-free summer fun for youngsters.
THE UK has awarded£3.16 million to three companies to develop low-cost interceptors to counter drone threats, becoming the first European partner to act under a joint defence programme.
MORE THAN 3,000 cyclists came together in June to take part in RAFA Rides, the RAF Association’s global cycling challenge.
AIR FORCE medical teams launched humanitarian life-saving drills off the coast of Hawaii as Nato forces gathered in the Pacific for the world’s largest maritime exercise.
Fg Off rules the waves at Queensford
Hat-trick hero homes in on title
ON MAY 22, 1946, a small trainer aircraft designed by Polish engineer Wsiewolod Jakimiuk took to the air for the first time in Canada.
Allies flex air power on Article Five drill
DEFENCE CHIEFS have issued a new female fitness guide to prepare more Forces women for frontline combat roles.
THE UK’S latest Jupiter helicopter made its debut at Akrotiri as 84 Sqn took to the skies over Cyprus.
Air chiefs and families pay their respects to the Battle of Britain heroes
RAF HOCKEY stars were front and centre in a thrilling 3-1 UKAF defeat of the Dutch Armed Forces at Aldershot in a rare international fixture.
UKAF’S FINEST players faced Surrey’s Second XI at Vine Lane for a tough, battling day of cricket against one of the sport’s county big guns.
Cpl Danielle reigns supreme in Scotland
FOOTBALL IS definitely not coming home for the UK’s AIRCOM team.
SGT MATT Haywood got to the top of the Grand Vets pile in rounds 7 and 8 of the British Cycling BMX National Series in Cardiff.
AIR FORCE Armourers got a weapons brief as they joined the USAF’s 48th Munitions Sqn at Lakenheath.
GUNNERS HIT the training range in the new Jackal as the RAF Regt prepares to take delivery of three of the UK’s new light combat vehicles.
AEROSPACE CHIEFS have unveiled a next generation digital pilot’s helmet designed to improve situational awareness and support faster decision-making in the multi-domain battlespace.
SHARPSHOOTERS HAD their sights on protecting Britain’s combat jets as personnel were put through security drills at Coningsby.
REGIMENT DRONEBUSTERS responsible for protecting combat aircraft on Operation Shader have been honoured.
AIR CHIEFS had a close encounter of the robotic kind at the official opening of the UK Space and Defence Centre.