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RAF Typhoons scramble twice in two days to intercept Russian aircraft

Image of a Russian Ilyushin Il-22 Bizon and a SU-27 Flanker aircraft, flying along the Baltic coast on the 14/05/2019. Royal Air Force Typhoons deployed in Estonia have scrambled twice in two days to intercept Russian aircraft flying along the Baltic coast, their first scra...

Special themed event to mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day

Pictured: Royal Marine veteran Clifford Coates chats to 1 AGRM Regimental Sergeant Major WO1 Drinkwater about his experience during D-Day. At a special themed event to mark the 75th Anniversary of D Day in North Devon, Royal Marines from Instow put several World War two vehi...

Armed Forces Minister meets 1,000 UK personnel based in Estonia on NATO mission

The UK-led NATO battle group are deploying in an major Estonian led exercise involving 10,000 NATO troops. Around 700 British troops deployed on Operation CABRIT are taking part with their main Challenger 2 battle tanks (operated by the newly deployed Kings Royal Hussars) wi...

Defence Secretary praises 50 years of nuclear service as new submarine is named

Image of the Secretary of State for Defence, The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP (centre), seen here with the First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sir Philip Jones KCB ADC (left), leaving the Service at Westminster Abbey in London, to mark 50 years of Britain’s nuclear d...

ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTERS BEGIN ESTONIAN AIR POLICING MISSION

Pictured. 121 Expeditionary Air Wing personnel parade at a Handover Ceremony prior to taking over the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission at Ämari Airbase in Estonia on the 2nd of May 2019. ROYAL Air Force fighter aircraft have begun a four-month NATO mission patrolling the ski...