The planes continued to hover around the area with the RAF KC2 Voyager Tartan understood to have squawked 1321 for NATO air policing. Squawk codes from 1301 to 1327 refer to NATO air policing, with ...

A British Voyager plane was used to refuel the US jets defending the aircraft carrier that launched the strikes, in which more than 50 people died, on March 15. The plane flew from the RAF airbase ...

The RAF Voyager that took part had launched from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and met the US jets over the Red Sea. The RAF tanker is a modified Airbus A330 that can carry more than 100 tonnes of jet fuel.

RAF fighter jets have been spotted circling above ... April 9. The Airbus KC2 Voyager, with call sign Tartan31, was seen making loops above the water off the coast of Orkney.

RAF fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft flying close to Nato airspace over the Baltic Sea, marking the first such intervention under Operation Chessman. A second incident occurred ...

RAF Typhoons were scrambled twice in under 48 hours this week as Russian aircraft approached NATO airspace. The British jets, stationed in Poland as part of Operation Chessman, were sent up to ...

While the RAF Typhoon FGR4s and the Voyager KC3 (British designation for the Airbus A330 MRTT) departed from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, where they are forward deployed, the RC-135W Rivet Joint ...

RAF Typhoons were scrambled challenge Moscow aircraft on three separate occasions. These military planes were flying close to Nato airspace near the Baltic Sea. Interception in aviation terms ...

A former RAF pilot took his own life and caused and the deaths of four others when he deliberately drove into oncoming traffic on a motorway, an inquest has heard. The tragic collision ...