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  • AUKUS treaty signed

    THE UK has signed a 50-year treaty with Australia to support joint submarine programmes which could net £20 billion in exports and safeguard thousands of defence sector jobs, ministers say.

  • CDS welcome for rookies

    THE LATEST class of Royal Air Force rookies took to the famous parade square at Cranwell College for the formal review, carried out by Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin.

  • Fans hail Lionesses

    THE CENTRAL Band of the Royal Air Force took to the stage at Buckingham Palace to provide the musical accompaniment after the victory parade for Euro 2025 winners the Lionesses.

  • Balloon goes up on combat test

    HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS that can soar higher than most military aircraft are being tested to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

  • WO shoots to Windsor

    CHAMPION SHOT WO Alex Lilly chatted with His Majesty as he was presented with The King’s Medal at Windsor Castle, a moment he called ‘an extraordinary honour’.

  • School’s in at Mawgan

    HIGH˜FLYING YOUNGSTERS got a closer look at Air Force life as they took part in leadership and team-building exercises at RAF St Mawgan.

  • WO cops it

    A SERIOUS crime investigator has been appointed the RAF Police’s top cop.

  • Chess move

    TYPHOONS SCRAMBLED more than 20 times to defend Nato airspace on their latest Air Policing beat.

  • Cpl’s Oder-Neisse line trek

    A RAF corporal who was helped by the RAF Benevolent Fund when his young son was ill in hospital has raised funds for the charity after completing the Oder-Neisse challenge.

  • Pacific heights

    F-35 NATIONS are raising the airpower stakes in the South Pacific as Allied forces launch the biggest ever war drill to take place off the coast of Australia.

  • Tower power

    The RAF veterans flying the flag for the UK at one of the world’s most popular tourist attractions

  • Battling Harriet’s a super-trooper

    BATTLING FIVE-YEAR-OLD Harriet Smith has been presented with a charity award for coping with her chronic auto-immune disorder while dad Sqn Ldr Chris is deployed in the Gulf with the RAF’s 83 Expeditionary Air Group.

  • Chief medic appointed

    AIR CDRE Darren Ellison has been appointed the Director Defence Healthcare after promotion to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal.

  • Gold strike

    THE RAF Museum has been awarded a Gold Award by the MOD for its outstanding support to the Armed Forces community.

  • Bully for you

    MENTAL HEALTH campaigners have recruited the classic 80s TV darts quiz show mascot Bully to help fight depression and loneliness in the Forces.

  • Wedgetail return for WWI unit

    A FORMER World War I ground reconnaissance and attack squadron is to fight again after being stood up with the imminent arrival of the Wedgetail into service.