Tag: Royal Air Force
Space Defence Set for Meteoric Rise
Published in the December 2020/January 2021 issue - As space operations are increasingly under threat, the United Kingdom is joining the United Space in...
Lifting Power Sustains Mali Mission
Published in December 2020/January 2021 issue - On 1 August, 2014, France launched Operation Barkhane at the request of the Republic of Mali government...
Beam Scheme
Specialist and general media were abuzz in early September with the news that the Royal Air Force’s Typhoon fleet will receive a new AESA...
First C-130J with new centre wing returns to RAF
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has delivered the first of 14 RAF C-130Js to undergo Enhanced Service Life Centre Wing Box replacement back to...
Managing the Biggest Aviation Challenge in the Royal Navy
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...
Transforming the Royal Air Force
Air Marshal Andrew Turner, deputy commander, Capability provides an insight into the intellectually driven ASTRA - the plan to transform the Royal Air Force...
Home on the Range
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...
Electronic Warfare for RAF Wedgetails
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...
Electronic Warfare Podcast 4: David Gledhill talks about his new novel Infiltration [8:38]
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...
Vibrant Time for Advanced Jet Trainers
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...
