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No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment is a C-UAS squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is to detect, track, and ultimately disrupt and destroy unmanned airborne vehicles. The squadron's current HQ is at RAF Leeming. The motto of the squadron is "Feu de Fer "(Fire from Iron). [2]
Royal Air Force Leeming or more simply RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station located near Leeming, North Yorkshire, England.It was opened in 1940 and was jointly used by the RAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases , support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...
When RAF Brawdy was decommissioned as an RAF base and handed over to the army, JFACTSU moved to RAF Finningley in South Yorkshire. Finningley then closed just two years later and in 1995, JFACTSU moved to its present location at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire [2] as the Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation Unit.
This is a list of equipment currently used by the Royal Air Force Regiment.The RAF Regiment is the ground fighting force of the Royal Air Force and contributes to the defence of RAF airfields in the UK and overseas, and provides Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) to the British Army and Royal Marines, and a contingent to the Special Forces Support Group from No. II (Parachute) Squadron.
The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment, or RAF Rgt) was headed by the Commandant-General, RAF Regiment and Director-General of Security with the rank of air vice-marshal, [41] [42] who was responsible for security at all Royal Air Force installations. The RAF Regiment served as the Royal Air Force's airbase defence corps. The regiment ...
8 July 1957 – de Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.Mk 1, of 60 Squadron RAF stalled and crashed into married quarters at Tengah Airfield, Singapore, killing two women and a fifteen month old child. The pilot died, as did a fireman and a bystander, killed when a fire truck crashed. 8 other people were injured as a result of the crash. [29] [30]
The Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service (RAFMRS) provides the United Kingdom military's only all-weather search and rescue asset for the United Kingdom. Royal Air Force (RAF) mountain rescue teams (MRTs) were first organised during World War II to rescue aircrew from the large number of military aircraft crashes then occurring due to navigational errors in conjunction with bad weather and ...