Military pilot training has been in significant turmoil, amid historical delays for the country’s fast jet fleet.

Officials in the UK are planning to modify legislation so that former pilots from the Royal Air Force (RAF) cannot use the skills they acquired during their service to train their Chinese counterparts ...

LONDON—The UK Royal Air Force has issued a request for information (RFI) to industry for a new fleet of basic training aircraft that could be adapted in the future to have a lower environmental ...

The Royal Air Force has opened the Protector RG Mk1 flight and training establishment at RAF Waddington, in a ceremony hosted by Air Officer Commanding 1 Group. The building, which houses ground ...

As British as Buckingham Palace or fish and chips, the Red Arrows have been displaying the Hawk T1 at air shows since 1980. They are expected to fly a different type by the summer of 2030. Credit: ...

Defence chiefs have left the UK “dangerously exposed” through a series of misguided equipment decisions – in one case branded “irrational” and “perverse” – which have created “unacceptable” capability ...

08:13, Fri, Oct 17, 2025 Updated: 08:25, Fri, Oct 17, 2025 Royal Air Force pilots will bet trained by Indian instructors for the first time following a landmark deal between London and Delhi. The ...

A continuing shortage of capacity in its flying training organisation has led the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) to return to training pilots on Hawk T1 aircraft, three years after it retired the analog ...

Thales Training & Simulation (TTS) will take over the management of most of the UK Royal Air Force's synthetic training systems on 1 January. The company signed a contract worth around £100 million ...

One of 16 Protectors that the RAF is receiving into RAF Waddington. The service has now opened at the same site an international training centre for the MQ-9B that ...