Top 10 Active UK Royal Air Force Aircraft With The Longest Range
The UK's Royal Air Force operates some aircraft with impressive ranges as it is designed to operate around the world.
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Royal Air Force Reconnaissance Aircraft Deploy for Baltic Surveillance Mission
The RAF is providing RC-135 Rivet Joint and P-8 Poseidon MRA1 aircraft from the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Force to assist NATO operation Baltic Sentry.
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RAF’s Nimrods with a long operational record, including Falklands flew for the last time
The replacement for the Nimrod R1 will be the Rivet Joint aircraft, due into service with the RAF in 2014. For now, RAF crews from 51 Squadron are already co-manning US Rivet Joint aircraft in ...
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British defense chief discloses talk with Shoigu over Black Sea air incident
"On September 29, an unarmed RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint, a civilian-style aircraft, on routine patrol over the Black Sea was interacted with by two Russian armed Su-27 fighter aircraft. It is not ...
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Offutt jet flies near Mexico, stirs up buzz on whether it's part of immigration control
The RC-135V Rivet Joint aircraft, equipped as an airborne listening ... tail number 64-14845, takes off from RAF Mildenhall, England, in April 2019. The same jet flew an unusual reconnaissance ...
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Russian pilot 'tried to shoot down RAF plane'
A Russian pilot attempted to shoot down an RAF surveillance plane last year, sources have told the BBC. Moscow said at the time that a missile was released as a result of a "technical malfunction".