UK drone centre opens
NEWLY APPOINTED Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis has opened Europe’s biggest drone testing facility in Swindon.
NEWLY APPOINTED Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis has opened Europe’s biggest drone testing facility in Swindon.
GROUND ENGINEERS (TG5) stormed to a 3-0 win to take The RAF Astra Trade League Final at Wantage Town FC and round off another superb season of Service football.
Shot at pro tour for first RAF champion
The mossies and their elite pilots taking the fight to occupied Europe
SAR squadron reforms to lift maritime Ops
A SEA King winchman who defied 45-foot waves in a dramatic rescue bid has told how he cheated death to pull a sailor from the raging seas as storms battered the coast.
A WING Commander who endured appalling abuse as a child and wrote a bestselling book about overcoming the horror of her upbringing is now championing women in leadership.
BENSON SECURED back-to-back Inter-Station hockey titles after two days of white-hot action at the National Sports Centre, Lilleshall to retain the Brent McCarthy Cup.
THERE WAS a hat-trick of Inter-Service glory for the RAF Pumas women’s ice hockey team as they dominated the field to win at Ice Sheffield.
SERVICE BOXING’S Elite and Development stars produced an impressive gold and silver medal-strewn return from the prestigious Ed Bilbey Box Cup in Nottingham.
High-tech air show signs off before rebrand
CHIEF OF the Air Staff ACM Sir Harv Smyth joined Old Cranwellians at the Officer Training College for the association’s annual reunion.
MENTAL HEALTH campaigners are funding a review of how care for veterans can be improved across the NHS.
ARMED FORCES personnel will receive an above-inflation pay rise of 3.6 per cent, netting an average increase of £1,650 a year, Defence chiefs say.
VETERAN ENGINEER Harry Hitch marked his 100th birthday with a double celebration.
AIR VICE-MARSHAL Jamie Thompson has taken charge of UK Defence Space Command, taking over from Maj General Paul Tedman.
THE RAF Museum has been voted one of the worldís top 10 tourist attractions in a travel industry poll.
UK seizes Putin's ship of shame funding his illegal war in Ukraine
Rapid rise to the top for logistics worker
SQN LDR Terry Hilliard, who has died aged 93, flew his Canberra jet bomber to Australia in 1958 to take part in a series of tests of Britain’s first hydrogen bomb.
KING’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2026
VETERAN PILOT Tony Davies was given a special 90th birthday surprise when he was reunited with the Cold War fighter he flew more than 60 years ago.
Track stars give crews ‘Combat Edge’
BRITISH FORCES boarded a sanctioned shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel in the latest blow to Russiaís war economy.
THERE WAS a double farewell for Service ice hockey at Sheffield as Pumas coach and Aces player Cpl Andy Rourke said goodbye to his beloved association, stepping down as he leaves the RAF.
IT WAS back-to-back wins for RAF Scotland and Northern Ireland rugby as they took the Tri-Service Scotland Trophy with the last kick of the game.
A GROUP of 25 RAF Gliding and Soaring Association (RAFGSA) members took to the skies above Sisteron in France for the annual Parcours Combattants expedition
BRIZE NORTON’S Sgt Louise Hartzenberg netted a top charity award for her work with disadvantaged youngsters.
YOUNG AVIATION fans got a taste of military life as they checked out the Air Force kit at the Royal Cornwall Show.
BRITISH SUPPORT for Ukraine’s frontline fighters is to be expanded to include specialist training in combat medicine, logistics and engineering, the MOD has revealed.
ST MAWGAN celebrated the history of the Royal Gurkha Rifles with a Nepal-themed dining in night.
AIR FORCE cop Cpl Louis Blanshard is hitting the road to honour Falklands veterans with a 250km charity challenge.
THE RED Arrows flew out to Iceland en route to the USA as the aerobatic team prepares to take part in the 250th anniversary of American Independence.