The giant ‘Rivet Joint’ was filmed being told to leave the Black Sea near Ukraine or it and two escorting RAF Typhoon fighter jets would be ‘destroyed’ by Vladimir Putin’s air arm.

A Russian pilot attempted to shoot down an RAF surveillance plane last year, sources have told the BBC. Moscow said at the time that a missile was released as a result of a "technical malfunction".

The replacement for the Nimrod R1 will be the Rivet Joint aircraft, due into service with the RAF in 2014. For now, RAF crews from 51 Squadron are already co-manning US Rivet Joint aircraft in ...

"On September 29, an unarmed RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint, a civilian-style aircraft, on routine patrol over the Black Sea was interacted with by two Russian armed Su-27 fighter aircraft. It is not ...

The bombers have taken part in NATO missions over the Baltic Sea and eastern Europe alongside British Rivet Joint surveillance ... "Ties between the USAF and RAF are so deep that they're almost ...

Huge American bombers flew from RAF Fairford to Finland as they conducted their latest ... and British and U.S. RC-135 Rivet Joints. The USAF said the exercise enhanced intelligence, surveillance, and ...