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GA-ASI and UK MoD sign T&E contract for Protector RG Mk1

GA-ASI has signed a Direct Commercial Sale (DCS) contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to complete the test and evaluation activities required to certify the Protector RG Mk1 Remotely Piloted Aircraft ... Read More...

UK F-35B Lightning jets train with USAF B-2A stealth bombers

A Bomber Task Force deployment of B-2A Spirit stealth bomber aircraft, Airmen and support equipment from the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, have arrived in the U.S. European Command area of... Read More...

Exercise Cobra Warrior 2019 Eurofighter Luftwaffe

Exercise Cobra Warrior starts in UK

Aircraft from the German, Italian and Israeli Air Forces have arrived at RAF Waddington to participate in Exercise Cobra Warrior. They will join aircraft from the Royal Air Force and United States Air Force in... Read More...

Royal Air Force sees demo of new Protector RG Mk1 capabilities

Demonstration Highlights CGCS, P3E, Mission Intel Station and Certifiability

On August 16th, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) gave a flight demonstration to Royal Air Force (RAF) senior leadership and RAF Reaper operators, as well as guests from the U.S. Marine Corp. ... Read More...

British F-35Bs complete first operational missions over Syria and Iraq

UK becomes the third country to send F-35s Joint Strike Fighter into combat

The UK Ministry of Defense has announced and confirmed that its newest F-35B fighter jets have flown alongside Typhoon aircraft on operational flights over the skies of Syria and Iraq, as part of the ongoing fi... Read More...

Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjak intercepted by UK RAF Typhoon

British RAF Typhoons intercept russian aircraft over the North Sea

Yesterday 29 March 2019 RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) british Typhoon fighter aircraft scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth, with an RAF Voyager from Brize Norton, to monitor two Russian Blackjacks approaching UK ai... Read More...

RAF Typhoons use Brimstone 2 missile for the first time in Syria

Strikes have decreased in regularity this month, with the terrorists confined to a tiny enclave of territory where there is a significant number of civilians, who are being transported to safety by Syrian Democ... Read More...

UK Royal Navy F-35B on HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time

F-35B jets land on HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time

Fast fighter jets are once again flying from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier as the first F-35s have landed on the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth. Royal Navy Commander Nathan Gray and RAF Squadron Leader A... Read More...

HMS Queen Elizabeth british aircraft carrier sets off for F-35B fighter jet trials

Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, departed her home port of Portsmouth on August 18, 2018, bound for the USA to land fast jets on deck for the very first time. Eight years since a British air... Read More...

RAF’s Dambusters squadron reforms to fly F-35 fighter jets

The squadron immortalised by the Dambusters raid of World War II has been reformed to fly the UK’s new F-35 fighter jets, the Defence Secretary has announced. Gavin Williamson announced the new 617 Squadron aft... Read More...

Greece: exercise Iniochos 2018 Andravida Air Base

Iniohos in Greek means Charioteer, and it is the most important exercise for Polemiki Aeroporia (Hellenic Air Force). The first edition of the exercise took place in 1988, as a small-scale exercise involving on... Read More...

Exercise Iniochos 2018

From Monday the 12 of March, to Friday the 23rd, 2018, the Medium-sized Multinational Aviation Exercise INIOCHOS 2018" takes place in Greece. The objective of the exercise is to provide realistic operational... Read More...

Russian Aerospace Forces TU-160 strategic bombers

UK fighter jets intercept Russian bombers approaching british airspace

Yesterday, Monday 15 January 2018, RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) Typhoon aircraft scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth to monitor two Russian strategic bombers approaching UK airspace. The Russian Air Force Blac... Read More...

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