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A British RC-135 Rivet Joint, the RAF’s premier signals intelligence aircraft, has once again been deployed on a critical reconnaissance mission over the Black Sea, monitoring Russian military ...
An RC-135. Image Airwolfhound, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. At the heart of the RAF’s airborne signals intelligence capability is the RC-135W Rivet Joint, known in UK service as Airseeker.
3 jet based at RAF Coningsby (Photo ... If a ceasefire was struck, intelligence assets such as Rivet Joint surveillance planes and drones could be pushed further eastwards in Ukraine to monitor ...
RAF fighter jets will patrol the Polish airspace on NATO's eastern flank, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. British-built Typhoon jets arrived in eastern Poland on Tuesday from RAF ...
The RAF Museum Midlands is home to a vast collection of former war planes set up inside the site's hangars. Among the displays at the museum, based at RAF Cosford in Shropshire, is the National ...
Dubliner, John "Paddy" Hemingway, an RAF pilot and member of "The Few", is remembered as a hero. Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway was born in Dublin in 1919. He enlisted in the British Royal ...
HMS Somerset and her Merlin helicopter from 814 Naval Air Squadron then began shadowing the Russian task group's escort, Severomorsk, south of Portsmouth and the RAF deployed a P8 Poseidon ...
An RAF veteran has taken part in a skydive to mark his 90th birthday. John Dyer, from Eaglescliffe, served from 1951 until 1969 but never got to jump from a plane during his service. "I've had it ...