RAF’s New Astor Spy Aircraft Is Ready for Combat

Credit: JIM HASELTINE
It doesn’t take classified access to understand that the Royal Air Force’s new Astor intelligence-gathering system, being fine-tuned here in the green swales of East Anglia, will soon be bound for operations over the sand seas and knife-edge ridges of Afghanistan. The commander of No. 5 (Army...

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