Royal Navy warship HMS Diamond has set sail from Portsmouth Naval Base for a nine-month operational deployment in the Gulf. The destroyer left her home port to cheering crowds on the Round Tower and received a flypast from a Wildcat helicopter based with 815 Naval Air Squadron in Royal Naval Air ...
Four Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 fighter aircraft have left Romania marking the end of the UK’s five-month leadership of NATO’s enhanced air policing mission in the country. Since April, the Typhoons had spent alternate weeks on high-readiness standby to defend NATO’s airspace over the Black Sea, enhancing the Romanian Air ...
Two Typhoon Fighters from 3 (Fighter) Squadron Royal Air Force have arrived in Estonia to conduct a training mission. The jets were greeted upon their arrival by the Minster for Armed Forces Mark Lancaster. The Typhoon Jets arrived to conduct Air Land integration training with the British Army Battlegroup currently deployed in ...
British paratroopers have proved their worth as ‘noble partners’ during a major multinational exercise in Georgia. Some 160 paratroopers from C (Bruneval) Company, 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment joined a 2,800-strong contingent from eight different nations to take part in the two week manoeuvre, dubbed ‘Exercise Noble Partner’. The objective was clear; to ...