{"id":20667250,"date":"2026-09-06T20:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/raf-air-command-redesignated-air-and-space-command-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:52:14","slug":"le-commandement-aerien-de-la-raf-est-rebaptise-commandement-aerien-et-spatial-en-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/raf-air-command-redesignated-air-and-space-command-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Le commandement a\u00e9rien de la RAF est d\u00e9sormais le commandement air et espace apr\u00e8s 19 ans."},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Air Command, the headquarters of the entire service, was redesignated Air &amp; Space Command.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is a name change, and it passed almost unnoticed. It is also the RAF formally accepting that it is now responsible for two domains rather than one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;margin:24px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Change:<\/strong> RAF Air Command redesignated HQ Air &amp; Space Command<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Effective:<\/strong> 1 September 2026<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Why:<\/strong> Reflects the RAF&rsquo;s selection as Lead Command for Space across UK Defence<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Led by:<\/strong> The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Unchanged:<\/strong> The service is still called the Royal Air Force<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Lineage:<\/strong> Bomber Command (1936), Strike Command (1968), Air Command (2007), Air &amp; Space Command (2026)<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Space heritage:<\/strong> RAF Fylingdales ballistic missile early warning system, 1963; SKYNET 1A launched 1969; UK Space Command formed 2021<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Lead Command argument<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Britain runs a Lead Command Model: rather than each service duplicating everything, one of them takes ownership of an activity on behalf of all of Defence. The RAF has been designated Lead Command for space, and the headquarters name now says so.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The claim is not arbitrary. The RAF stood up Britain&rsquo;s ballistic missile early warning system at RAF Fylingdales in 1963 and launched SKYNET 1A, the country&rsquo;s first military communications satellite, in 1969. It has been operating in and through space, in one form or another, for more than sixty years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/raf-fylingdales-phased-array-radar.jpg\" alt=\"The phased array radar at RAF Fylingdales\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The phased array at RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. The station has been part of Britain&rsquo;s ballistic missile early warning system since 1963, long before anyone spoke of a space domain. Photo: Phil Catterall \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Space is essential to defence, security, prosperity, and our modern way of life. But it is also a domain of growing strategic competition. It has fast become an operational domain in its own right, and is vital to our ambition to develop and mature the integrated force. The RAF&rsquo;s core mission of gaining and maintaining control of the air is fundamentally dependant on our freedom of action in and through the space domain.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth<\/strong> &mdash; Chief of the Air Staff, RAF statement of 1 September 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The last sentence is the operationally interesting one. Control of the air, the thing the RAF exists to do, now depends on satellites for navigation, timing, communications, targeting and intelligence. Lose access to the space layer and a modern air force degrades very quickly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From Lancasters to satellites, on the same site<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The building this is all run from has an unusually direct lineage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bomber Command was formed in 1936 at RAF Uxbridge in west London. As tension in Europe rose, the government wanted it somewhere harder for an enemy to find and bomb, and in 1938 it moved to RAF High Wycombe, tucked into the woods of the Chiltern Hills near Walter&rsquo;s Ash and Naphill. It stayed there for thirty years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In 1968 Bomber Command merged with Fighter Command to become Strike Command, still at High Wycombe, controlling the RAF&rsquo;s bombers and fighters. In 2007 Strike Command merged with Personnel and Training Command to form Air Command, the single headquarters for the whole service. UK Space Command was formed underneath it in 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Nineteen years after the last renaming, the same headquarters became Air &amp; Space Command. The site that once ran the Lancaster force now runs satellite operations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Britain is late to a European trend<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The RAF is not first. France renamed its air arm the Arm&eacute;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace in 2020. Spain followed with the Ejercito del Aire y del Espacio in 2022, and the Netherlands became the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force in 2025.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Britain has gone a step less far. Those countries renamed the service itself; the RAF has renamed only its headquarters. The Royal Air Force remains the Royal Air Force, which given a hundred and eight years of brand equity is probably a sensible restraint.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RS8xWm3q5Ok\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">Background on UK Space Command, which continues to sit under the newly renamed Air &amp; Space Command.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What actually changes<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Structurally, not much on day one. Air &amp; Space Command continues to run UK Space Command and continues to lead the RAF Groups that deliver air power and train personnel. UK Space Command remains a joint organisation with Royal Navy, British Army and Civil Service personnel alongside RAF people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>What changes is where space sits in the hierarchy. Smyth&rsquo;s argument is that space power now has to be planned and delivered at the top level of military leadership, in the same way as every other domain, rather than being handled by a specialist enclave further down the organisation. Putting it in the name of the headquarters is how a military organisation makes that stick.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Smyth is a reasonable person to do it. He was the first officer to hold the post of Director Space UK, became Deputy Commander (Operations) in 2022, a role retitled Air &amp; Space Commander in 2023, and went on to Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff before becoming Chief of the Air Staff.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The motto, of course, does not need changing. It has been pointing at the stars since 1912.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\u2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is RAF Air &amp; Space Command?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Air & Space Command is the headquarters of the Royal Air Force. It was previously called Air Command and was redesignated on 1 September 2026 to reflect the RAF role as Lead Command for Space across UK Defence. It is led by the Chief of the Air Staff and is responsible for UK Space Command as well as the RAF Groups that deliver air power and training.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Has the Royal Air Force changed its name?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. Only the headquarters has been renamed. The service itself remains the Royal Air Force. This differs from France, Spain and the Netherlands, which renamed their air arms outright as air and space forces in 2020, 2022 and 2025 respectively.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why is the RAF responsible for space?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Under Britain Lead Command Model, one service takes ownership of an activity on behalf of all of Defence, and the RAF has been selected as Lead Command for space. The choice reflects a long connection to the domain: the RAF established the UK ballistic missile early warning system at RAF Fylingdales in 1963 and launched the SKYNET 1A military communications satellite in 1969.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is UK Space Command?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">UK Space Command was formed under Air Command in 2021 and continues under the renamed Air & Space Command. Its mission is to safeguard UK national and military space interests and to enable UK forces to operate globally. It is a joint command, with personnel drawn from the Royal Navy and British Army as well as the RAF, plus Civil Service staff.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was RAF Air Command before 2007?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Air Command was created in 2007 by merging Strike Command with Personnel and Training Command. Strike Command had itself been formed in 1968 by merging Bomber Command and Fighter Command. Bomber Command was formed in 1936 at RAF Uxbridge and moved to RAF High Wycombe in 1938, which has remained the headquarters site ever since.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What does Per Ardua ad Astra mean?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">It is the motto of the Royal Air Force and translates as through adversity to the stars. It dates from the formation of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912, which makes the RAF choice of Air & Space Command as a headquarters title a rather literal fulfilment of a phrase adopted more than a century earlier.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is RAF Air & Space Command?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Air & Space Command is the headquarters of the Royal Air Force. 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