Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced an investment of up to £80 million in a new computer system to boost the RAF’s speed and accuracy. Known as Project Guardian, the new Air Command and Control System will support the continued early detection and rapid response to potential hostile or suspect aircraft that ...
Typhoon fighter pilots from the Royal Air Force (RAF) have made a belated return to Romania in support of the Enhanced Air Policing mission they began last spring. Eurofighter Typhoon multi-role aircraft from Number II (Army Co-operation) Squadron have journeyed from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland to join 135 Expeditionary Air Wing ...
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 Gavin Williamson has announced. Mr Williamson announced the new 617 Squadron after an event in Washington DC to mark the centenary of the RAF. The naming of the ...
The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has cut the first turf on a £132m facility for the UK’s new fleet of submarine hunting Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) at RAF Lossiemouth. The site will be the future home to the country’s nine-strong, new P-8A Poseidon MPA fleet. The aircraft’s role will be ...