UK Royal Air Force

The £656 million ($822 million) contract was awarded to BAE Systems on April 14.

The UK Royal Air Force will use two light aircraft as flying testbeds for new technologies, including synthetic fuels.

Belgium has become the first international participant in the General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian operators club established by the UK RAF.

Air Marshal Sir Richard Knighton will be appointed Chief of the Air Staff in June, the UK defense ministry announced March 31.

Boeing has begun building new infrastructure to support the operation of the UK RAF's new fleet of E-7 airborne early warning aircraft in Scotland.

The review is one of the milestones in the £110 million ($133.7 million) Shadow Mk.2/R2 upgrade program.

The joint RAF squadron was formed as part of the UK’s Qatar Air Program connected to its sale of Eurofighter Typhoons to the Qatar Emiri Air Force.

The UK and German air forces have linked arms to undertake a joint air policing mission from Estonia.

NATO has received information on Boeing’s E-7, Northrop Grumman’s E-2 Hawkeye and Saab’s GlobalEye as it considers an interim AEW platform.

The UK RAF plans to transfer most C-130J missions to the Airbus A400M by the time the Hercules leaves service in the summer.

Historic electronic systems facility in Rochester needs funding for modernization.

The service has had to compress development of C-130J missions onto the A400M.

Throughput of the UK Royal Air Force’s pilot training pipeline is improving, the head of the service has insisted.

A two-year project will explore hose-and-drogue positioning and drogue stability control.

The RCO’s Project Monet aims to fund a technology demonstrator to prove potential green technologies.

The contract marks the first time red-air aggressor training has been contracted to a private company by the UK.

The UK Royal Air Force and the Qatar Emiri Air Force have established a new training unit in the UK, flying the BAE Systems Hawk.

The UK is looking for a zero-emission training aircraft as the Royal Air Force (RAF) targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

The UK Royal Air Force is looking to deploy its Eurofighter Typhoons as well as the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) Voyager to Southeast Asia in October to participate in a milestone edition of Exercise Bersama Lima.

The UK Royal Air Force will consider a zero-emission trainer for its upcoming Telum requirement for a fleet of aircraft to be used for elementary flying training.

The UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is to establish a second joint squadron with the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) to support the training of fast jet pilots for the Gulf state.

The UK will tilt power projection towards the Indo-Pacific region in response to the growing threat posed by China, a review of the UK foreign and defense policy has outlined.

A committee of UK lawmakers has called upon the country’s defense ministry to stop doing business with British companies owned by Chinese or Russian parents.

In an ignominious end for the fleet, the five Sentinels “are not for reuse” the defense ministry stated, as it called for expressions of interest in the disposal of the radar reconnaissance platform.

The UK’s new fleet of E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft are to be based in Scotland rather than England.