Tag: RAF

• Monday, October 19th 2015 - 21:10 UTC

  UK hands RAF Search & Rescue air operations to Maritime Agency and Bristow Helicopters

  

  More than 74 years of continuous Royal Air Force UK search and rescue (SAR) air operations drew to a close this month, as the Service handed over SAR duties to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency and Bristow Helicopters Ltd. SAR operated mostly in the UK, Falkland Islands and Cyprus.

• Monday, April 6th 2015 - 08:33 UTC

  Falklands' RAF MPA complex allegedly technically exposed by UK defense blunder

  

  A new report says a UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) blunder has put the Falkland Islands at risk of attack from Argentina, which claims sovereignty over the archipelago and in 1982 invaded the Islands militarily until they were defeated and ousted 74 days later.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2014 - 07:25 UTC

  “Without Chile's help, we would have lost the Falklands”, says former RAF intelligence

  

  Chile's support for Britain during the Falklands War has been revealed for the first time by the man who was dispatched, with only hours notice, to secure a South American ally, according to an article in the Daily Telegraph credited to Harriet Alexander.

• Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 06:50 UTC

  UK receives first of next generation of stealth aircraft, STOVL F-35 Lightning II

  

  The first of the UK's next generation of stealth combat aircraft, Lightning II, was handed over to the Ministry of Defence at a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond formally accepted the first of the jets which are short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and are manufactured by Lockheed Martin.

• Monday, July 16th 2012 - 14:51 UTC

  Iconic Falklands’ veteran Vulcan opened Farnborough Air-show

  

  Britain’s Farnborough International Air-show opened last week with a joint flypast of the Red Arrows and the world’s last airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber XH558 commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.

• Thursday, July 5th 2012 - 18:07 UTC

  Drastic cut in UK Armed forces manpower preparing for “the Army of the future”

  

  UK’s Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced that 17 units are to be axed from the British army as part of sweeping reforms that will reduce its overall strength by 20.000 posts.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 08:11 UTC

  UK media and opposition claim spending on Falklands’ defense is to fall

  

  The amount spent to protect the Falkland Islands is to fall according to reports in the British media however the Ministry of Defense attributes the changes to ‘accounting policy’ and insists it has the capacity to repel any Argentine aggression of the Islands.

• Friday, February 10th 2012 - 01:01 UTC

  Timerman on Friday formalizes at UN complaint against UK ‘militarization’ of Malvinas dispute

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez gave instructions for the formal complaint before the United Nations accusing the United Kingdom of ‘militarization’ of the South Atlantic and Malvinas Islands be presented on Friday, according to a release from the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 22:47 UTC

  Prince William in the Falklands; begins briefings period and familiarization flight

  

  UK’s Prince William arrived on Thursday to the Falkland Islands amid simmering tensions between Britain and Argentina over the disputed South Atlantic Islands and in the year of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict.

• Saturday, November 12th 2011 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina describes Prince Williams Falklands’ deployment as “a provocative act”

  

  Argentina complained Friday that Prince William's six-week mission as a rescue pilot in the Falkland Islands, the object of a 1982 British-Argentine war, is “a provocative act.”