Tag: Royal Air Force

Rear Admiral Connell spoke to Armada International about the responsibility and challenges of developing the Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike capability. “As Rear Admiral Fleet Air...

Air Marshal Andrew Turner, deputy commander, Capability provides an insight into the intellectually driven ASTRA - the plan to transform the Royal Air Force...

The Royal Air Force’s RAF Spadeadam electronic warfare training range gets a new commander. “I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o’er...

Leonardo plans to certify electronic warfare equipment for the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) new E-7 Wedgetail AEW.1 airborne early warning aircraft by 2022. Defensive...

David Gledhill was a navigator on the Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom series fighter, and then on the RAF’s Panavia Tornado-F3...

Legacy jet trainer aircraft are lagging front line requirements of air arms around the world: what's on offer to meet the flight training needs...

The Eurofighter Typhoon could benefit from a major enhancement to its self-protection systems over the next five years to ensure that the aircraft is...

The EuroDASS consortium, responsible for the Praetorian Defensive Aids Subsystem (DASS) equipping the Eurofighter Typhoon has launched a study on the DASS’ modernisation. The 18-month...

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is planning a fleet expansion, and major upgrade, of its Beechcraft Shadow-R1 ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) aircraft. The Shadow-R1...

On Friday 30, August, the biggest warship in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN), HMS Queen Elizabeth, sailed from Portsmouth to conduct her second...