This is the moment two typhoon jets appear to have narrowly missed a head-on collision each other during exercises over West Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire. Shocking images show the jets seeming to be eerily close to one another as they practised dog fighting
RAF hero Stephen Bacon, who survived the horrors of a Nazi Death March, has died aged 102, his loved ones have revealed. Yesterday they paid tribute to the “tough” airman, who served as a mid-upper gunner on Lancaster bombers during the Second
RAF fighter jets have landed and taken off from a regular road for the first time ever. Two Typhoons took off from a single-lane road in Tervo, Finland, which was specially designed as an emergency landing strip. The exercise was done to
West Lindsey District Council, in an update published on its website, said it is clear the Government wants to use the historic military base for longer than 12 months. And planning chiefs told the Home Office it must stop work on converting
His stark warning comes after it emerged a number of former RAF, Royal Navy and Army pilots had been training the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force. The Ministry of Defence issued a rare security alert following the revelations last October. Around
Two RAF heroes have walked 164 miles to Downing Street with a petition demanding free prescriptions for patients with rare genetic diseases. Squadron Leader Nick Smith, 39, whose two-year-old daughter Charlotte has cystic fibrosis, set out from Wolverhampton to completed the five-day
There are now “serious questions” about whether the country’s combat aircraft fleet could defend the UK in an all-out war. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has brought the cuts into “sharp focus”, according to Westminster’s Defence Committee. The cross-party group of MPs
In March the Daily Express and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust handed over 1,300 signed NHS prescriptions to PM Rishi Sunak, asking he finally make sufferers exempt from paying for them. In 1968 many chronic illnesses like cancer, diabetes and epilepsy were included in a list
A third of migrants being housed at a former RAF base have left within weeks in a fresh blow to the Government’s plans to slash eye-watering hotel costs. Some 46 Channel migrants were transferred to RAF Wethersfield, near Braintree in Essex, last
RAF Typhoon jets have been launched to intercept two Russian long-range maritime patrol bombers north of the Shetland Islands, the defence ministry has said. We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story. For the