P-8 Poseidon used to support UK Border Force in English Channel

The P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft made its operational debut last week tracking a Russian warship near the UK coast, it has now been tasked to look for dinghies in the English Channel.

NATO AGS fleet grows with arrival of new aircraft

The fourth remotely piloted aircraft for NATO's Alliance Ground Surveillance Force has arrived.

Boeing’s Arizona line produces first QF-16 Full-Scale Aerial Target

In 2017 a QF-16 was used as an Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle, autonomously attacking a ground target as a part of the 'Loyal Wingman' project.

First Danish F-35 takes shape

The aircraft, with tail number L-001, recently arrived at the Electronic Mate and Alignment Station.

Anglo-German Baltic air exercise ends

This was the first time a German Eurofighter detachment had been embedded within an operational RAF Expeditionary Air Wing.

RAF deploy additional aircraft over English Channel

A Shadow R1 (an intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance aircraft) is now operating over the English Channel.

Hawk jet ‘to fly for decades to come’ say BAE Systems

A team from BAE Systems and the Australian Defence Department have recently completed a major structural testing programme on a specially adapted Hawk Mk127 to put it through five-times this clearance.

First C-130J with new centre wing returns to RAF

Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has delivered the first of 14 RAF C-130Js to undergo Enhanced Service Life Centre Wing Box replacement.

RAF transport aircraft used to monitor English Channel

A Royal Air Force A400M Atlas aircraft has been flown from RAF Brize Norton this morning to support Border Force operations in the English Channel.

British P-8 Poseidon shadows Russian warship for first time

A P-8A Poseidon from 120 Squadron completed a prolonged overwatch of the Russian warship Vasily Bykov as it passed through the North Sea.

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