In pictures: Princess of Wales 'takes flight' over Lincolnshire during visit to RAF Coningsby
She was given a tour of one of the QRA fighter aircraft on stand-by to respond to any threats to national airspace, before stepping into a ...
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RAF Fuelling up to face the threat: How Voyager keeps the RAF's Typhoons on station
BFBS Forces News reporter Simon Newton boards a Voyager refuelling aircraft on the operation that's Nato's answer to airborne threats
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RAF Quick Reaction Alert: How the RAF protects our skies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
The primary role of the RAF is to protect the skies of the United Kingdom
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RAF Tempest: The RAF fighter designed to meet threats we don't even know about
The sixth-generation jet is being built under the Global Combat Air Programme to replace the capabilities provided by the 4.5-gen Typhoon
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Ukraine Ukraine reveals financial cost of war as $10m Russian heli is taken out by $500 drone
Video footage shows the moment of impact and aftermath of a suicide attack drone hitting a Russian Mi-8, with the aircraft being destroyed
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Nato Russian warplanes violating Nato airspace avoid being shot down – at least for now
Some European member states of the alliance are losing patience with Vladimir Putin as he keeps sending his jets over Nato territory
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Nato Signal, gesture, escort or shoot? How Russian planes flying in Nato's skies are intercepted
After three Russian jets breached Estonian airspace last week, Air Marshal (Ret'd) Greg Bagwell spoke to Sitrep about how intercepts work
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Nato In pictures: RAF Typhoons complete first-round trip mission defending Polish skies
The Royal Air Force Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire on Friday night
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RAF Ex Cobra Warrior takes off from rain-hit RAF Waddington with F-18s, Typhoons and Hercules
The RAF is hosting international allies for Exercise Cobra Warrior 25-2, a three-week air combat drill testing tactics against simulated ...
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RAF Vickers 40mm Class S Gun: Hard to aim at aircraft, but great for attacking tanks
The Vickers S Gun was a 40mm autocannon that ended up being repurposed for a very different role from its original design
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Nato RAF Typhoons to fly round-trip missions to defend Polish air space following drone incursion
The Typhoons will operate from RAF Coningsby and are expected to start flying missions in the coming days
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Ukraine Shooting down the Shaheds: UK and Ukraine to produce interceptor drones
Countering enemy UAVs with missiles is expensive, so a new breed of anti-drone drones are proving far more cost-effective
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Aircraft US B-2 stealth bomber teams up with Norwegian F-35s to sink ship in the Arctic
The exercise targeted a ship to test the new Quicksink seeker technology used on a conventional bomb carried by a US Air Force B-2 Spirit
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RAF RAF to go ahead with nuclear-capable F-35A despite concerns about stealth, says CDS
Chief of the Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton briefs MPs on plans to acquire 27 more F-35s - including 12 A variants
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Nato Airspace violated: Polish F-16s and other jets scrambled to shoot down Russian drones
It is the first time a Nato country has directly engaged Russian assets in its airspace since the Ukraine war began in 2022
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RAF 1994 Mull of Kintyre RAF Chinook crash: The tragedy, its causes and why it's back in the news
BFBS Forces News has investigated the crash, the inquiries after the crash and what the families of the victims are doing now