Почему сокращается количество истребителей Typhoon в составе Королевских ВВС?

Поскольку самолеты первой партии списываются, и им ничего не заменят, количество самолетов Typhoon сократилось со 137 единиц на 1 апреля 2024 года до 124 на 1 апреля 2026 года. На 1 июля 2025 года парк состоял из четырех самолетов первой партии, 67 самолетов второй партии и 40 самолетов третьей партии, а 26 из 30 самолетов первой партии уже были разобраны на запчасти. Опубликованные даты вывода из эксплуатации — 2027 год для первой партии и 2040 год для второй и третьей партий. Новых британских заказов не поступало; министры указывают на заказ Турции от октября 2025 года как на способ восполнить производственный пробел на заводе в Уортоне перед началом программы GCAP.

Боевой порядок · United Kingdom

Королевские военно-воздушные силы

Q: Какие самолеты будут использоваться Королевскими ВВС в 2026 году?

Боевой флот состоит из истребителей Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 — 124 самолета на вооружении по состоянию на 1 апреля 2026 года, 111 из них находятся на службе — и истребителей Lightning F-35B, 47 из которых используются совместно с Королевским флотом. За ними следуют девять морских патрульных самолетов Poseidon MRA1, три Wedgetail AEW1, три Rivet Joint, восемь Shadow R1, 16 Protector RG1, 22 Atlas C1, восемь C-17 Globemaster, 14 самолетов-заправщиков Voyager, 45 Chinook и учебно-тренировочные самолеты Hawk T1 и T2, Texan, Prefect, Phenom, Tutor, Viking, Juno и Jupiter.

Q: Сколько человек служит в Королевских ВВС?

По состоянию на 1 июля 2026 года численность регулярных войск Великобритании составляла 31 392 человека, из которых 27 851 прошли подготовку — 6 997 офицеров и 20 854 рядовых. С учетом резерва, общая численность личного состава ВВС Великобритании составляла 35 978 человек. Королевский резерв ВВС и Королевские вспомогательные ВВС пополнились 3 097 военнослужащими, бывшие резервисты регулярной армии — 1 288, а резервисты, спонсируемые государством, — 201. Впервые за многие годы численность регулярной армии немного выросла: по сравнению с 2025 годом она увеличилась на 2,8 процента.

Q: Кто является главой Королевских военно-воздушных сил?

Главный маршал авиации сэр Харв Смит занимает должность начальника штаба ВВС с 29 августа 2025 года. Он бывший пилот истребителя Harrier, совершавший полеты над Боснией, Косово, Сербией, Ираком и Афганистаном, командовавший 4-й эскадрильей и 1-й группой, а также первый директор по космическим вопросам в Министерстве обороны. Он сменил главного маршала авиации сэра Рича Найтона, который стал начальником штаба обороны. Он подотчетен министру обороны, достопочтенному Уэсу Стритингу, члену парламента, назначенному 20 июля 2026 года.

Q: Являются ли Королевские ВВС старейшими военно-воздушными силами в мире?

Это старейшие независимые военно-воздушные силы, и именно это утверждение имеет значение. Они были сформированы 1 апреля 1918 года путем слияния Королевского воздушного корпуса и Королевской военно-морской авиационной службы в третью род войск со своим собственным министерством. Военные летные подразделения существовали и раньше в нескольких странах — сам Королевский воздушный корпус был создан в 1912 году — но они были подразделениями армий и флотов. Идея о том, что военно-воздушные силы нуждаются в собственном роде войск, зародилась именно здесь, и все независимые военно-воздушные силы в мире произошли от этого аргумента.

Q: Зачем были созданы Королевские военно-воздушные силы?

Вследствие бомбардировок Лондона бомбардировщиками «Гота» в 1917 году стало ясно, что враг может атаковать города страны напрямую, и ни одна британская власть не несет ответственности за то, чтобы остановить это или ответить тем же. Ян Смутс подготовил доклад, в котором рекомендовал создать отдельную авиационную службу и отдельное министерство авиации; Совет авиации был сформирован в январе 1918 года, а Королевские ВВС — 1 апреля. Хью Тренчард, назначенный первым начальником штаба ВВС 18 января 1918 года, затем в 1920-е годы занимался сохранением независимости ведомства.

Q: Что такое управление воздушным движением и почему оно вызывает споры?

В 1920-х годах Королевские ВВС оправдывали своё существование контролем над воздушным пространством: они осуществляли охрану имперской территории путём бомбардировок, а не гарнизонов, поскольку это было дешевле. На Каирской конференции 1921 года Тренчард предложил Королевским ВВС взять на себя военное командование в Ираке, и 1 октября 1922 года это произошло — впервые в истории военнослужащий ВВС командовал всеми военными операциями в стране. Этот метод также применялся на Северо-Западной границе, в Адене, Трансиордании, Сомалиленде и Судане. Собственный обзор воздушной мощи Королевских ВВС дал ему критическую оценку: метод возлагал ответственность за отдельные действия на целые общины, бомбардировки были неточными — 102 из 182 бомб пролетели мимо цели в одной из операций в ноябре 1928 года — и население адаптировалось. Независимость службы была частично достигнута за счёт бомбардировок деревень, и Королевские ВВС сами это теперь признают.

Q: Что же на самом деле обеспечило победу в Битве за Британию?

Система Даудинга, а не «Спитфайр». Радар «Цепной дом» обнаруживал формирующиеся налеты над Францией, 30-тысячный корпус наблюдателей отслеживал их вглубь страны, оперативные штабы расшифровывали планы, а оперативные штабы секторов по телефону преобразовывали их в приказы на перехват. Это была первая в мире интегрированная система противовоздушной обороны, позволявшая силам, находящимся в меньшинстве, оказаться в нужном месте. «Харрикейн» выполнял большую часть непосредственной стрельбы: он был оснащен большим количеством эскадрилий и уничтожил больше немецких самолетов, чем все остальные самолеты вместе взятые.

Q: Сколько пилотов участвовало в Битве за Британию и сколько погибло?

По данным Королевских ВВС, с 10 июля по 31 октября 1940 года 2945 членов экипажей совершили как минимум один санкционированный вылет в составе истребительной авиации. 544 из них погибли во время битвы, а еще 795 — до окончания войны. Еще 312 человек из числа наземного персонала Королевских ВВС погибли на земле. В списке обладателей наград на Лондонском памятнике за Битву за Британию указано 2937, а не 2945; разница объясняется тем, как учитываются спорные случаи. Примерно каждый пятый член экипажа не был британцем: в списке 145 поляков, 127 новозеландцев, 112 канадцев, 88 чехословаков, 32 австралийца, 28 бельгийцев, 25 южноафриканцев, 13 французов, 10 ирландцев, девять американцев, три родезийца и по одному человеку из Барбадоса, Ямайки и Ньюфаундленда. 303-я (польская) эскадрилья была одной из наиболее результативных частей в этом сражении.

Q: Сколько членов экипажей бомбардировочной авиации погибло во Второй мировой войне?

Из примерно 125 000 военнослужащих 55 573 погибли, что составляет около 45 процентов смертности, хуже, чем в любом другом крупном роде войск британской армии в обеих мировых войнах. Еще 8403 человека были ранены, 9838 попали в плен, и более 8000 погибли в результате несчастных случаев во время тренировок. Имперский военный музей четко указывает на статистику: 51 процент погибли в ходе боевых действий, 12 процентов погибли или были ранены в результате несчастных случаев, 13 процентов попали в плен или уклонились от преследования, и 24 процента остались невредимыми. Бомбардировочное командование совершило 501 536 боевых вылетов и потеряло 8325 самолетов.

Q: Почему экипажи бомбардировочной авиации не получили боевую медаль?

Поскольку ковровые бомбардировки стали политически неудобными почти сразу после окончания войны. В победном обращении Уинстона Черчилля не упоминалось Бомбардировочное командование, Артур Харрис был единственным крупным британским командующим, которому в то время не был присвоен пэрский титул, и не была заложена никакая боевая звезда. Экипажи не получили ничего конкретного в знак признания их службы до тех пор, пока в декабре 2012 года не была объявлена о создании Застежки Бомбардировочного командования, которую носят на звезде 1939–1945 годов. Мемориал в Грин-парке был открыт 28 июня 2012 года, через шестьдесят семь лет после войны. У большинства из 55 573 погибших также не осталось в живых товарищей, с которыми они могли бы увидеться.

The Royal Air Force invented the independent air force, and has spent a century arguing about what one is for — an argument that in 2026 has produced a fighter force a third the size of its 1990 self, a nuclear mission handed back after twenty-seven years, and a command that has just added the word Space to its name.

Национальная маркировкаThe roundel: red centre, white ring, blue outer, in this form since 1947

Низкая видимостьPale red and pale blue with no white ring, worn on the grey front-line fleet such as the Typhoon

Вспышка плавникаRed, white and blue, red leading

171Боевой самолет

40Действующие авиабазы

1918Основан

84Типы, выведенные из эксплуатации

Photo: Cpl. Andy Benson / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence)

СтранаВеликобританияОснован1918СтатусАктивныйШтаб-квартираRAF High Wycombe, BuckinghamshireКомандирSir Harv Smyth

История

The Royal Air Force story: the first independent air force, and the argument about what it is for

1918–1939: Trenchard, air control and the price of independence

The Royal Air Force came into existence at midnight on 1 April 1918, when the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were merged into a third armed service with its own ministry, its own uniform and its own seat at the strategic table. Nothing like it had existed anywhere. The immediate cause was the Gotha bomber raids on London in 1917 and the report that Jan Smuts wrote in response, which argued that air power had become an instrument in its own right rather than an auxiliary of armies and fleets. Every independent air force in the world descends from that argument. It is the single most important structural fact about the RAF, and it explains almost everything that follows — including the fact that the service has had to justify its separate existence, repeatedly and expensively, ever since.

Independence was not secure in 1919. The Admiralty and the War Office both wanted their aviation back, and Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff for most of the 1920s, kept the RAF alive by making it cheap and by making it useful to the Empire. The instrument was air control: policing mandated and colonial territory by aeroplane rather than by garrison. At the Cairo Conference of 1921 Trenchard proposed that the RAF take over military command in Iraq, and on 1 October 1922 an airman directed all military operations in a country for the first time. The same method was used on the North-West Frontier, in Aden, Transjordan and Sudan. The RAF’s own Air Power Review has since examined it honestly: the targeting held whole communities responsible for the acts of individuals, the bombing was inaccurate — in one November 1928 operation 102 of 182 bombs missed — and the effect wore off as populations learned to disperse and warn each other. The RAF’s independence was bought, in part, by bombing villages. That belongs in the story.

1940–1945: the Dowding System, and 55,573 dead in Bomber Command

The Battle of Britain is the RAF’s founding legend, and the truthful version is more impressive than the myth. What won it was not the Spitfire but the Dowding System: Chain Home radar, the Observer Corps, filter rooms, sector stations and a telephone network that turned a raid plot into an interception order in minutes. It was the world’s first integrated air defence system and no other country had one. The RAF counts 2,945 aircrew as having flown in the battle between 10 July and 31 October 1940; 544 of them were killed during it, and 312 RAF ground personnel died on the ground. Roughly one in five of the aircrew were not British — 145 Poles, 127 New Zealanders, 112 Canadians, 88 Czechoslovaks and men from a dozen other countries. Both sides overclaimed victories wildly. Hugh Dowding and Keith Park, who had run the battle, were both removed from their posts within weeks of winning it, in the aftermath of the Big Wing dispute with Trafford Leigh-Mallory.

Then came the part the RAF finds hardest to talk about. Bomber Command lost 55,573 aircrew killed out of roughly 125,000 who served — a death rate near 45 per cent, worse than any other major arm of the British forces in either world war, and worse than the chance a British infantry subaltern had on the Western Front. The Imperial War Museum’s figures put it plainly: 51 per cent of aircrew were killed on operations, 12 per cent killed or wounded in accidents, 13 per cent taken prisoner, and 24 per cent came through unscathed. The area bombing directive of February 1942 and Arthur Harris’s campaign against German cities killed hundreds of thousands of civilians; Dresden, on 13–15 February 1945, remains the argument’s sharpest point. The argument has not been settled and this page will not settle it. What is not in dispute is how the crews were treated afterwards: no campaign medal until the Bomber Command Clasp was announced in December 2012, and no memorial until the one in Green Park was unveiled in June the same year.

1948–1969: the V-force, Sandys and the deterrent given away

From 1955 the RAF held the British nuclear deterrent. The V-force — Valiant, Vulcan, Victor — carried Blue Danube, then Yellow Sun, then the Blue Steel stand-off missile, and for fourteen years the country’s survival rested on bombers at fifteen minutes’ readiness. Two decisions ended that. Duncan Sandys’s Defence White Paper of 1957 declared that missiles would replace manned fighters, cancelled a generation of British aeroplanes and did lasting damage to the industry. The American cancellation of Skybolt in December 1962 and the Nassau agreement that followed handed the deterrent to the Royal Navy, and when Polaris took over in 1969 the RAF’s strategic role was finished. It kept tactical nuclear weapons — the WE.177 — until the last of them were withdrawn on 22 April 1998, after which Britain had no air-delivered nuclear weapon at all. That is the gap the 2025 F-35A decision closes.

1965–1991: TSR-2, the Cold War in Germany, and a war fought at fifty feet

TSR-2 is the other wound, and it is heavily mythologised. The aircraft first flew on 27 September 1964, was cancelled in the Budget of 6 April 1965, and the jigs and tooling were destroyed; two airframes survive, at Duxford and Cosford. What is documented is the decision, the stated cost grounds and the destruction of the tooling. What is not documented, and should not be asserted, is the long list of claims about deliberate sabotage and American pressure that has grown around it. Meanwhile the real RAF of the 1960s to 1980s was a large, unglamorous force in Germany: Canberras, then Phantoms, Buccaneers, Harriers and Jaguars flying at fifty feet under the weather, with Lightnings and later Tornado F3s on air defence. In 1982 Vulcans flew the Black Buck missions to Port Stanley, almost 6,600 nautical miles with up to eleven Victor tankers in the chain — the longest-range bombing raids anyone had flown. In 1991 the RAF put 157 aircraft into the Gulf and lost six Tornado GR1s in action in a fortnight of low-level airfield attacks.

1991–2024: the expeditionary decades, and the aircraft that were not replaced

The quarter-century after 1991 was one long expeditionary campaign — the Iraqi no-fly zones, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Libya, and then Daesh — and it was fought by a force that kept shrinking. Over Libya in 2011 the RAF flew about 3,000 sorties and struck 640 targets with 945 people in theatre. Over Iraq and Syria from 2014 it struck roughly 1,400 targets in more than 10,000 sorties. But the equipment decisions of those years were brutal. The 2010 review retired the Harrier and the Nimrod MR2 together and cancelled the Nimrod MRA4, whose completed airframes were cut up at Woodford; the National Audit Office put the waste at 3.4 billion pounds and the United Kingdom then went nine years without a maritime patrol aircraft. The Sentry fleet went in 2021 before its replacement arrived. The Hercules went in 2023. The Defence Committee’s 2023 report called the Wedgetail cut from five aircraft to three "the most perverse" decision in the 2021 command paper: a 40 per cent capability cut for a 12 per cent saving.

2025–2026: a nuclear role returns, and a command changes its name

That is the RAF that 2025 and 2026 inherited. It has 31,392 regulars, 124 Typhoons of which 111 are in service, 47 F-35Bs shared with the Royal Navy, three Wedgetails, nine Poseidons, three Rivet Joints and eight C-17s. It has more combat aircraft on the books than at any point since 2019 and fewer than half the squadrons it had in 1990. Its fast-jet training pipeline still holds 48 of 119 students between courses. Its Red Arrows fly Hawk T1s built in the 1970s with no replacement yet chosen. Against that, 2025 and 2026 have brought real movement: the Strategic Defence Review of June 2025, the announced purchase of twelve F-35As alongside a decision to rejoin NATO’s nuclear sharing mission — the first British air-delivered nuclear role since 1998 — Protector replacing Reaper, the first Wedgetail at Lossiemouth in May 2026, more than 8 billion pounds for the Global Combat Air Programme, and on 1 September 2026 Air Command becoming Air and Space Command. Whether a service of this size can do all of it at once is the question the next Parliament will answer.

Вкратце

The Royal Air Force in numbers

Услуга

Название на родном языке

Королевские военно-воздушные силыMotto "Per Ardua ad Astra" — through adversity to the stars. Known universally as the RAF

Основан

1 April 1918The world’s first independent air force, created by merging the Royal Flying Corps (1912) and the Royal Naval Air Service, on the recommendation of the Smuts report after the Gotha raids on London. Hugh Trenchard had been appointed the first Chief of the Air Staff on 18 January 1918

Часть

British Armed ForcesOne of three services under the Ministry of Defence. The Fleet Air Arm belongs to the Royal Navy and the Army Air Corps to the British Army; the Lightning Force and the helicopter force are jointly manned

Штаб-квартира

Air and Space Command — RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
The Air Staff — Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London

Air Command was redesignated Air and Space Command on 1 September 2026. High Wycombe is the operational headquarters; the Chief of the Air Staff and the Air Staff sit in Whitehall

Chief of the Air Staff

Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv SmythIn post since 29 August 2025. A former Harrier pilot and weapons instructor, he commanded No. 4 Squadron and No. 1 Group and was the Ministry of Defence’s first Director Space

Secretary of State for Defence

The Rt Hon Wes Streeting MPAppointed 20 July 2026. The Chief of the Air Staff is accountable to the Secretary of State for the effectiveness, efficiency and morale of the RAF

Сила

Regular personnel

31,392UK Regular Forces at 1 July 2026, up 2.8 per cent on the year. All RAF service personnel including reserves: 35,978

Trained strength

27,851Full Time Trained Strength at 1 July 2026: 6,997 officers and 20,854 other ranks. The Ministry of Defence no longer publishes an RAF workforce requirement, so no surplus or deficit against establishment can be calculated from the official tables

Reserves

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and Royal Auxiliary Air Force — 3,097
Serving ex-regular Air Force Reserve — 1,288
Sponsored Reserve — 201

All at 1 July 2026. The Royal Auxiliary Air Force grew from 29 squadrons to 32 between 2025 and 2026, the only formation growth in the service

Боевой самолет

Typhoon FGR4 and T3 — 124 on charge, 111 in service
Lightning F-35B — 47, jointly manned with the Royal Navy

At 1 April 2026. Typhoon holdings have fallen from 137 in 2024 as the Tranche 1 aircraft are scrapped; Lightning has risen from 35

Fixed-wing aircraft

507 across the armed forces323 of them in service at 1 April 2026. The Ministry of Defence’s equipment table is tri-service and does not split RAF from Royal Navy and Army holdings; almost all fixed-wing types in it are RAF

Uncrewed aircraft

189 across the armed forces148 in service at 1 April 2026, including 16 Protector RG1 with nine in service. Reaper, which had been nine aircraft a year earlier, is gone

оборонный бюджет

£62.0 billion in 2025–26Rising to £79.1 billion by 2029–30. NATO put UK defence spending at 2.3 per cent of GDP in 2025 and expected 2.6 per cent in 2026; the commitments are 2.5 per cent by 2027, 3 per cent in the next Parliament and 3.5 per cent by 2035. No separate RAF budget line is published

Recruitment and retention

A formal inquiry, and a training pipeline that still holds students

2020–21: 161 women and ethnic minority candidates accelerated onto initial training ahead of others; 31 men missed a 5,000 pound joining bonus
29 June 2023: the non-statutory inquiry reported; the Chief of the Air Staff apologised unreservedly and accepted all twelve recommendations
1 June 2026: 48 of 119 fast-jet trainees were on holdover between courses or waiting for an operational conversion unit

More than 300 personnel were held in the flying training pipeline in September 2022, and the Defence Committee called the delays "completely unacceptable" in 2023.

Инфраструктура

RAF formations

104 squadrons and equivalent unitsAt 1 April 2026: 43 flying support, 3 battlespace management, 23 air security and readiness, 11 communications and 24 engineering and logistics. A further 32 Royal Auxiliary Air Force units and 4 sponsored reserve units sit alongside them

Летные эскадрильи

Combat air — 9
Operational conversion and evaluation — 13
Flying and operational training support — 7
Air transport and air-to-air refuelling — 6
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — 4
Remotely piloted aircraft — 3
Airborne command and control — 1

At 1 April 2026. Training squadrons fell from 10 to 7 in a year while conversion and evaluation units rose from 11 to 13

Main flying stations

RAF Lossiemouth — Typhoon, Poseidon, Wedgetail
RAF Coningsby — Typhoon, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
RAF Marham — Lightning Force
RAF Brize Norton — Atlas, Voyager, Globemaster
RAF Waddington — Rivet Joint, Shadow, Protector, Red Arrows
RAF Odiham — Chinook
RAF Valley — fast-jet training
RAF Benson, Shawbury, Cranwell, Wittering, Leeming, Honington, Northolt

Overseas: RAF Akrotiri in the Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus, RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falklands, RAF Gibraltar and RAF Ascension Island. Stations, not bases — the prefix is part of the name

Оперативное реагирование

Two stations, 24 hours a dayTyphoons at RAF Lossiemouth cover the north and RAF Coningsby the south, with Voyager tanker support from Brize Norton. A separate Typhoon detachment holds QRA in the Falkland Islands

Отображаемые команды

The Red ArrowsThe Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, based at RAF Waddington, flying Hawk T1s expected to last to the end of the 2029 display season. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby flies Spitfires, Hurricanes, a Lancaster and a Dakota

Космос

No. I Space Operations Squadron — RAF High Wycombe
No. II Space Warning Squadron — RAF Fylingdales
No. III Space Effects Squadron — announced 23 September 2026

Air Command became Air and Space Command on 1 September 2026. The RAF has been in the business since the ballistic missile early warning station at Fylingdales in 1963 and the launch of Skynet 1A in 1969

Структура

How the Royal Air Force is organised

Four groups under Air and Space Command. No. 1 Group holds the front line — fast jets, transport, tankers and surveillance — No. 11 Group commands the air operations and the air defence of the United Kingdom, No. 2 Group runs the bases and the support force, and No. 22 Group trains everyone. The Lightning Force is manned jointly with the Fleet Air Arm, and the Chinooks serve under Joint Helicopter Command rather than under the RAF alone.

Air Chief MarshalSir Harv SmythChief of the Air Staff · in office since 2025

Air and Space Command

Персонал

The Air Staff

Ministry of Defence, Whitehall

The Chief of the Air Staff and the Air Staff inside the Ministry of Defence: policy, programme, budget and the RAF’s seat among the Chiefs of Staff.

Штаб-квартира

Air and Space Command

RAF High Wycombe

The RAF’s operational headquarters, renamed from Air Command on 1 September 2026. The four groups report to it.

Передовая линия

Группа № 1

The combat air force, the air mobility force, the surveillance and reconnaissance force and the Air and Space Warfare Centre: Typhoon, Lightning, Poseidon, Wedgetail, Rivet Joint, Voyager, Atlas and C-17.

Поддерживать

No. 2 Group

The people and the places: the air bases themselves, force protection, the RAF Regiment, the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, medical, logistics and communications units.

Операции

No. 11 Group

Command and control of air operations worldwide, the air defence of the United Kingdom through the National Air and Space Operations Centre, and 83 Expeditionary Air Group in the Middle East. Re-formed on 1 November 2018.

Обучение

No. 22 Group

RAF Cranwell

Officer, recruit and aircrew training for the RAF and specialist training for all three services, the RAF College and the Air Cadets.

Joint

Joint Helicopter Command

JHC

A tri-service command in which the RAF’s Chinook squadrons serve alongside Army and Royal Navy helicopters.

В эксплуатации

What the Royal Air Force flies today

Все виды, находящиеся под прицелом, имеют ссылку на соответствующую страницу в Книге Зверей, если таковая имеется. В статистике учитываются самолеты, находящиеся в резерве, а не самолеты, доступные в конкретный день.

Тип	Роль	В эксплуатации	С	Единицы	Примечания
Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4В эксплуатации	Многоцелевой истребитель	124	2003	—	124 airframes on charge at 1 April 2026, of which 111 were in service — down from 137 on charge in 2024. Более At 1 July 2025 the fleet was four Tranche 1, 67 Tranche 2 and 40 Tranche 3 aircraft, and 26 of the 30 Tranche 1 machines had already been scrapped.
Lockheed Martin Lightning F-35BВ эксплуатации	Stealth multirole fighter, short take-off and vertical landing	47	2018	—	47 on charge at 1 April 2026, all of them counted as in service, up from 35 two years earlier.
Boeing Poseidon MRA1В эксплуатации	Морское патрулирование и противолодочная борьба	9	2020	—	Nine on charge and nine in service at 1 April 2026 — the figure has not moved since 2022.
Boeing Wedgetail AEW1В эксплуатации	Система раннего предупреждения и управления с воздуха	3	2026	—	Three aircraft. Five were ordered in 2019 for about 1.98 billion dollars and the order was cut to three in the 2021 Integrated Review. Более The type does not yet appear as a line in the Ministry of Defence’s 2026 equipment statistics, so there is no official in-service count.
Boeing Airseeker RC-135W Rivet JointВ эксплуатации	Signals intelligence	3	2013	—	Three on charge and three in service at 1 April 2026.
Beechcraft Shadow R1В эксплуатации	Tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance	8	2009	—	Eight on charge at 1 April 2026 with five in service, down from six in service a year earlier.
General Atomics Protector RG1В эксплуатации	Armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, remotely piloted	16	2025	—	16 on charge at 1 April 2026 with nine in service — the first year the type appears in the Ministry of Defence’s statistics.
Airbus Atlas C1В эксплуатации	Тактические и стратегические воздушные перевозки	22	2014	—	22 on charge and 22 in service at 1 April 2026, the full order.
Boeing Globemaster C-17AВ эксплуатации	Стратегическая воздушная перевозка	8	2001	—	Eight on charge and eight in service at 1 April 2026; the figure has not changed in five years.
Airbus Voyager KC2/KC3В эксплуатации	Дозаправка в воздухе и стратегические перевозки	14	2012	—	14 on charge and 14 in service at 1 April 2026. Более The RAF describes a core fleet of eight military-registered aircraft plus one on the civil register, with five more available commercially and recallable.
Dassault Envoy IV CC1В эксплуатации	Command support air transport	2	2022	—	Two on charge and two in service at 1 April 2026.
Boeing Chinook HC6AВ эксплуатации	Heavy-lift support helicopter	45	1980	—	45 on charge at 1 April 2026 with 36 in the effective forward fleet, down from 59 on charge in 2022. Более Janes, reading the 2026 Defence Investment Plan, counted about 51 airframes in three marks — 8 HC5, 14 HC6 and about 29 HC6A. The MoD statistic is the later and lower figure and is the one used here.
Airbus Jupiter HC2В эксплуатации	Легкий многоцелевой вертолет	6	2025	—	Six aircraft. The type is too new to appear separately in the 2026 equipment tables, where the Jupiter line is the seven training HT1s.
BAE Systems Hawk T2В эксплуатации	Advanced fast-jet trainer	28	2009	—	28 on charge and 28 in service at 1 April 2026, unchanged since 2022.
BAE Systems Hawk T1В эксплуатации	Display and support jet trainer	24	1976	—	24 on charge at 1 April 2026 with 18 in service, down from 67 on charge as recently as 1 April 2024.
Beechcraft Texan T1В эксплуатации	Basic fast-jet trainer	14	2018	—	14 on charge at 1 April 2026. No in-service figure is published because the aircraft is operated under an availability contract.
Grob Prefect T1В эксплуатации	Elementary flying trainer	23	2016	—	23 on charge at 1 April 2026. Operated under an availability contract, so no in-service figure is published.
Embraer Phenom T1В эксплуатации	Multi-engine pilot trainer	5	2016	—	Five on charge at 1 April 2026. Operated under an availability contract, so no in-service figure is published.
Grob Tutor T1В эксплуатации	Elementary trainer and air experience	91	1999	—	91 on charge at 1 April 2026. This is the tri-service figure; no in-service count is published for aircraft on availability contracts.
Grob Viking T1В эксплуатации	Glider, air cadet training	81	1984	—	81 on charge at 1 April 2026 with 54 in service, the highest in-service figure since 2023.
Airbus Juno HT1В эксплуатации	Basic helicopter trainer	29	2016	—	29 on charge at 1 April 2026. Operated under an availability contract, so no in-service figure is published.
Airbus Jupiter HT1В эксплуатации	Advanced helicopter trainer	7	2016	—	Seven on charge at 1 April 2026. Operated under an availability contract, so no in-service figure is published.

Тайфун FGR4124

Tutor T191

Viking T181

Молния Ф-35Б47

Chinook HC6A45

Juno HT129

Hawk T228

Ястреб Т124

По заказу

Тип	Заказано	Первая поставка	Примечания
Lockheed Martin Lightning F-35AПо заказу	12		Announced on 25 June 2025 and the most significant change to the RAF’s role in a generation: the F-35A will be available to fly NATO’s nuclear deterrence mission in a crisis, the first British air-delivered nuclear capability since the WE.177 was withdrawn in 1998. Более The aircraft go to No. 207 Squadron, the operational conversion unit at RAF Marham, where their longer range and lower maintenance burden also make them better trainers than the F-35B. The warheads would be American B61-12 weapons held under NATO arrangements, not British ones.
Lockheed Martin Lightning F-35BПо заказу	15		The rest of the 27-aircraft second phase announced in June 2025. Более Britain’s declared headmark for the programme remains 138 aircraft of all marks across its life, a figure first stated in 2015 and never formally revised, against 47 on charge at 1 April 2026.
Boeing Chinook H-47(ER)По заказу	14	2028	Fourteen extended-range Chinooks with a digital cockpit and automatic flight control system, contracted in March 2024 for delivery between 2028 and 2032. Более The 1.4 billion pound programme was announced in May 2021 with deliveries then promised from 2026, so it has slipped about three years. The 2026 Defence Investment Plan adds a second tranche in the 2030s and confirms that the 29 HC6As go by 2030, which leaves a gap in heavy lift in between.
Global Combat Air Programme (Tempest)По заказу	—	2035	A sixth-generation crewed fighter being developed with Japan and Italy under a treaty signed in December 2023 and ratified by the United Kingdom in October 2024, to replace the Typhoon from 2035. Более The Ministry of Defence had committed 2 billion pounds since 2021 and budgeted more than 12 billion over the next decade; the Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 put more than 8 billion pounds into the next four years. A flying demonstrator is in final assembly for a first flight in 2027. No number of aircraft has been announced.
Collaborative Combat AircraftПо заказу	—		A national programme worth 300 million pounds in the 2026 Defence Investment Plan to develop an autonomous aircraft to fly alongside crewed fighters, with a demonstrator expected by 2030. Более No type, quantity or in-service date has been announced.
Military jet trainer, type not selectedПо заказу	—		The Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 committed 360 million pounds to recapitalise the military jet training system, which covers both the fast-jet training fleet and the Red Arrows’ Hawk T1s. Более It deliberately does not name an aircraft. The Boeing-Saab T-7A Red Hawk, the Leonardo M-346 and the Korean T-50 remain in contention, and UK workshare is a live political issue.

Ранее эксплуатировалось

Every type the Royal Air Force has retired

84 types, from the Avro 504 to the General Atomics Reaper MQ-9A. Максимальные показатели — это количество самолетов, принятых на вооружение за весь срок службы, а не численность парка на какую-либо конкретную дату.

Тип	Роль	Пик	Подано	Заменено на	Примечания
General Atomics Reaper MQ-9A	Armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, remotely piloted	9	2007–2025	Protector RG1	Nine on charge at 1 April 2025 and none a year later.
Airbus Puma HC1/HC2	Medium support helicopter	20	1971–2025	Jupiter HC2 and other types	20 on charge at 1 April 2025 with none in the forward fleet, and gone entirely by 2026.
Lockheed Hercules C1/C3/C4/C5	Тактическая воздушная перевозка	—	1967–2023	Атлас С1	13 C-130J on charge at 1 April 2023 and none a year later.
Bell Griffin HT1/HAR2	Вертолёт общего назначения и учебный вертолёт	3	1997–2023	Jupiter HT1 and Jupiter HC2	Three on charge at 1 April 2022 and none a year later.
British Aerospace 146 CC2/C3	Command support and tactical transport	—	1986–2022	Envoy IV CC1	Four aircraft in No. XXXII (The Royal) Squadron service, retired in 2022.
Boeing Sentry AEW1	Система раннего предупреждения и управления с воздуха	—	1991–2021	Wedgetail AEW1	Seven were bought; the fleet had shrunk to a handful before withdrawal.
Raytheon Sentinel R1	Airborne stand-off radar and ground surveillance	5	2008–2021	—	Five aircraft.
Shorts Tucano T1	Basic flying trainer	—	1989–2019	Texan T1	130 were built by Shorts at Belfast.
Panavia Tornado GR1/GR4	Strike, interdiction and reconnaissance	—	1979–2019	Typhoon FGR4 and Lightning F-35B	The backbone of RAF offensive air power for four decades. The first aircraft went to the Tri-national Tornado Training Establishment at RAF Cottesmore and No. Более IX (Bomber) Squadron became the first front-line unit in 1982. Forty-nine GR1s went to the Gulf in 1991, where six were lost in action in low-level attacks on Iraqi airfields; the type then flew the Iraqi no-fly zones, Kosovo, Iraq again in 2003, Libya in 2011 and Operation Shader from 2014, carrying Storm Shadow, Brimstone and Paveway IV. UK aircraft were assembled by British Aerospace at Warton. Retired in 2019.
AgustaWestland Merlin HC3/HC3A	Medium support helicopter	—	2001–2016	—	The RAF’s Merlins flew in Iraq and Afghanistan and were transferred whole to the Royal Navy’s Commando Helicopter Force in 2014 to 2016 as part of the rebalancing that followed the Harrier decision.
Westland Sea King HAR3/HAR3A	Поисково-спасательная операция	—	1978–2015	—	The yellow Sea King was the most publicly visible thing the RAF did: mountain rescue in Wales and Scotland, cliff and sea rescues around the coast, and the Falklands. Более Military search and rescue in the United Kingdom passed to a civilian contractor in 2015 and the RAF gave it up, keeping only the Mountain Rescue Service.
Vickers VC10 C1K/K3/K4	Дозаправка в воздухе и стратегические перевозки	—	1966–2013	Космический корабль Voyager KC2/KC3	The RAF flew the VC10 for 47 years, first as a transport with No. 10 Squadron and later as a tanker. Более Over Libya in 2011 three VC10s flew 422 sorties and offloaded nearly ten million kilogrammes of fuel. They and the TriStars were retired together in 2013 when the AirTanker arrangement took over.
Lockheed TriStar K1/KC1/C2	Дозаправка в воздухе и стратегические перевозки	—	1984–2013	Космический корабль Voyager KC2/KC3	Nine ex-airline aircraft converted after the Falklands campaign exposed the RAF’s shortage of long-range transport and tanking.
Panavia Tornado F2/F3	Перехватчик	—	1985–2011	Тайфун FGR4	The air-defence Tornado, built for long-range interception of Soviet bombers over the North Sea and never comfortable in any other role. Eighteen F3s deployed to the Gulf in 1991. Более It held UK Quick Reaction Alert until the Typhoon took over and was retired in 2011.
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R1	Signals intelligence	3	1974–2011	Airseeker RC-135W Rivet Joint	Three aircraft.
Hawker Siddeley Dominie T1	Navigator trainer	—	1965–2011	—	A military HS.125 used to train navigators and weapon systems officers at RAF Cranwell for 46 years.
British Aerospace Harrier GR5/GR7/GR9	Close air support and reconnaissance	—	1989–2010	—	The second-generation Harrier, a development of the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B assembled by British Aerospace in the United Kingdom. Более It flew over Iraq, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan and, in Joint Force Harrier, from Royal Navy carriers. The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review retired it at once: the last RAF Harrier sorties were flown in December 2010 and the airframes were later sold to the United States Marine Corps for spares. Britain had no fixed-wing carrier aviation at all until the F-35B arrived.
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR1/MR2	Морское патрулирование и противолодочная борьба	—	1969–2010	Poseidon MRA1, after a nine-year gap	The world’s first jet maritime patrol aircraft, developed from the Comet airliner. Более Nimrods hunted Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic, searched for the Argentine fleet in 1982 and flew overland intelligence missions over Afghanistan and Iraq. XV230 was lost near Kandahar on 2 September 2006 after an in-flight fire following air-to-air refuelling, killing all fourteen on board — the largest single loss of British life in the Afghanistan campaign. The Haddon-Cave Review of 28 October 2009 called the aircraft’s safety case "a lamentable job from start to finish" and accused the Ministry of Defence of sacrificing safety to cost.
BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4	Maritime patrol, cancelled	0	1996–2010	Посейдон MRA1	21 aircraft were originally ordered, cut to nine by 2008; five were built and none entered service.
SEPECAT Jaguar GR1/GR3	Strike and reconnaissance	—	1973–2007	Тайфун FGR4	Twelve deployed to the Gulf in 1991.
English Electric Канберра	Bomber, reconnaissance and target facilities	—	1951–2006	—	Fifty-five years in RAF service, the longest of any British jet. Более It began as the first RAF jet bomber, dropped bombs on Egyptian airfields at Suez in 1956, and ended as the PR9 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, which flew over Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan before retiring in 2006.
Westland Wessex HC2	Support helicopter	—	1964–2003	Puma and Griffin	A licence-built Sikorsky S-58 with British turbines. RAF Wessexes flew in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Hong Kong and Belize; the last left service with No. 84 Squadron at RAF Akrotiri in 2003. Более Some listings give an earlier retirement date for the type because they count only the first-generation marks.
Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR1/GR3	Close air support and reconnaissance	—	1969–1994	Harrier GR5/GR7	The first operational vertical and short take-off jet in any air force. In RAF Germany it dispersed into woods and farm tracks to survive an attack on its airfields; in 1982 No. Более 1 Squadron took GR3s south to the Falklands aboard Atlantic Conveyor and flew close air support from HMS Hermes.
Блэкберн Букканир S2	Maritime strike and low-level attack	—	1969–1994	Tornado GR1	Designed for the Royal Navy and inherited by the RAF when the carriers went. Более It was the finest low-level strike aircraft of its generation and went to war at the very end of its life, laser-designating for Tornados over Iraq in 1991.
Хоукер Хантер	истребитель и штурмовик	—	1954–1994	Lightning, Harrier and Jaguar	The Hunter was the best-looking aeroplane the RAF ever flew and, in the FGA9, one of the most useful: it did the ground-attack work in Aden and the Radfan and east of Suez into the 1970s. Более Two-seat trainers flew on with the Buccaneer force at Lossiemouth until 1994.
BAC Jet Provost	Basic jet trainer	—	1955–1993	Tucano T1	The RAF’s basic trainer for nearly forty years and the aircraft in which most pilots of the Cold War RAF first flew a jet.
Handley Page Victor B1/B2/K2	Strategic bomber, later tanker	—	1957–1993	VC10 and TriStar tankers	The most advanced of the three V-bombers and the longest-lived, because when the bomber role ended it became the RAF’s tanker. Более Victors made Black Buck possible in 1982 and refuelled the Gulf War force in 1991 before retiring in 1993.
McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG1/FGR2	Interceptor, strike and reconnaissance	—	1969–1992	Tornado F3	British Phantoms were re-engined with Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans, which made them different aircraft from the American originals and not obviously better ones. Более They served in Germany, in the United Kingdom air defence region and, after the Falklands, in a detachment at Port Stanley. The last were retired in 1992.
Avro Shackleton MR1/MR2/MR3/AEW2	Maritime patrol and airborne early warning	—	1951–1991	Nimrod MR1, then E-3D Sentry	A Lincoln bomber turned into a maritime patrol aircraft, with four Griffon engines and a noise that crews never forgot. Более The maritime version gave way to the Nimrod in 1970, but the AEW2 conversions soldiered on as Britain’s only airborne early warning aircraft until 1991, long past any reasonable life, because the Nimrod AEW3 that should have replaced them was cancelled in 1986.
Английская электрическая молния	Перехватчик	—	1959–1988	Phantom FGR2 and Tornado F3	Britain’s only home-grown supersonic interceptor to reach squadron service, and a machine of extraordinary climb rate and almost no range. Более It sat on Quick Reaction Alert against Soviet reconnaissance aircraft over the North Sea for nearly thirty years. The 1957 Sandys White Paper cancelled the fighters that would have followed it.
Avro Vulcan B1/B2	Strategic bomber	—	1956–1984	Polaris, then Tornado GR1	The most recognisable of the V-bombers and the only one to drop bombs in anger. Более It carried Blue Danube, then Yellow Sun and the Blue Steel stand-off missile, and lost its strategic role when Polaris took over in 1969. In 1982 Vulcans flew the Black Buck missions from Ascension to Port Stanley, almost 6,600 nautical miles with up to eleven Victor tankers in the chain, and were retired two years later.
Фолланд Гнат Т1	Опытный тренер	—	1962–1979	Ястреб Т1	A tiny, difficult, delightful aeroplane that trained RAF fast-jet pilots at Valley and flew with the Red Arrows from 1965 until the Hawk replaced it in 1980.
Глостерский метеор	Fighter, later target towing and trials	—	1944–1977	Hunter and Javelin	The only Allied jet fighter to see combat in the Second World War, first used against V-1 flying bombs over southern England in 1944. Более It was outclassed as a fighter by Korea but soldiered on in target-towing and trials work until 1977.
Short Belfast C1	Outsize strategic airlift	10	1966–1976	—	Ten aircraft.
Bristol Britannia C1/C2	Стратегический транспорт	—	1959–1975	VC10 and Belfast	The RAF’s long-range turboprop transport of the 1960s, flown by No. 99 and No. 511 Squadrons on the routes to the Far East and the Gulf.
de Havilland Comet C2/C4	Стратегический транспорт	—	1956–1975	VC10	No. 216 Squadron’s Comets made the RAF the first air force in the world to operate a jet transport, in 1956. The airframe went on to become the Nimrod.
де Хавилланд Вампир	Fighter-bomber and trainer	—	1946–1972	Venom and Hunter	The RAF’s second jet fighter and the first single-engined one. The two-seat T11 trainer outlasted the fighters by many years and taught a generation of pilots to fly jets.
Копьё Глостер	Всепогодный перехватчик	—	1956–1968	Lightning	The RAF’s first delta-winged all-weather fighter, big, heavy and short-lived. It was already obsolescent when the Lightning arrived and was gone by 1968.
Викерс Валиант	Strategic bomber	—	1955–1965	Vulcan and Victor	The first V-bomber and the aircraft with which the RAF took on the British nuclear deterrent in 1955. Более Valiants bombed Egyptian airfields at Suez in 1956 and dropped Britain’s first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific tests. The whole fleet was grounded and scrapped in 1964 and 1965 after metal fatigue was found in the wing spars, a direct consequence of switching the aircraft to low-level flying.
БАК ТСР-2	Strike and reconnaissance, cancelled	0	1964–1965	F-111K, also cancelled; eventually Tornado GR1	One aircraft flew; two more were complete or near-complete and the rest were broken up on the jigs.
де Хавилланд Москито	Light bomber, night fighter, pathfinder and reconnaissance	—	1941–1963	Meteor, Vampire and Canberra	Built of wood, unarmed in its bomber version and fast enough not to need armament. Более The Mosquito did precision raids, night fighting, pathfinding, photographic reconnaissance and maritime strike, and had one of the lowest loss rates in Bomber Command.
de Havilland Venom	Истребитель-бомбардировщик и ночной истребитель	—	1952–1962	Hunter and Javelin	A developed Vampire with a thinner wing and more power, used heavily in the Middle East and Far East, including against Egyptian airfields at Suez in 1956 and in Malaya and Aden.
Бристоль Бофайтер	Night fighter and anti-shipping strike	—	1940–1960	Mosquito and Brigand	The first effective RAF night fighter, because it was big enough to carry early airborne radar and heavily enough armed to destroy a bomber in one pass. Более It later became the anti-shipping strike aircraft of Coastal Command’s strike wings.
Супермарин Спитфайр	Истребитель и фоторазведчик	—	1938–1957	Meteor and Vampire	The aeroplane the country remembers, and in fairness the only British fighter in production at the start of the war that was still competitive at the end of it. Twenty-four marks were built. Более The last operational RAF sortie was flown by a photographic-reconnaissance PR19 in 1954 and the last RAF flight in 1957 — after which the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight has kept Spitfires flying continuously ever since, so in a strict sense the RAF has never stopped operating the type.
Canadair Sabre F4	Дневной боец	—	1953–1956	Охотник	About 430 Canadair-built Sabres were supplied to the RAF under the Mutual Defense Assistance Programme; the number is given differently in different accounts and should be treated as approximate.
Авро Ланкастер	Тяжелый бомбардировщик	—	1942–1956	Lincoln, then Canberra	The aircraft that carried most of Bomber Command’s war. It flew the Dams raid in May 1943, the Ruhr, Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden, and carried the Tallboy and Grand Slam. Более Maritime reconnaissance versions served with Coastal Command into the mid-1950s.
Викерс Веллингтон	Средний бомбардировщик и морской патрульный самолет	—	1938–1953	Lancaster and Halifax	The RAF’s standard bomber at the start of the war, built on Barnes Wallis’s geodetic structure, which made it famously able to come home with large parts missing. Более It stayed in front-line use in the Mediterranean and with Coastal Command long after the heavies took over in Europe.
Хокер Темпест	истребитель и штурмовик	—	1944–1953	Vampire and Venom	A redesigned Typhoon with a thin laminar-flow wing and one of the fastest piston fighters at low level of the whole war. Более Tempest squadrons shot down a large share of the V-1 flying bombs that reached southern England in 1944.
Handley Page Halifax	Heavy bomber and special duties	—	1940–1952	Lancaster and Lincoln	The other four-engined heavy of Bomber Command, less celebrated than the Lancaster and used far more widely: bombing, maritime patrol, glider towing, and dropping agents and supplies to resistance movements across occupied Europe.
Битва при Фэйри	Легкий бомбардировщик	—	1937–1949	Blenheim and Boston	Obsolete before it fired a shot and sent anyway. Более In the Battle of France in May 1940 Battle squadrons were destroyed attacking the Meuse bridges; the RAF’s first two Victoria Crosses of the war were won on one such raid. Survivors became trainers and target tugs.
Хокер Харрикейн	истребитель и штурмовик	—	1937–1947	Typhoon and Tempest	The Hurricane, not the Spitfire, did most of the work in 1940: it equipped more squadrons, was easier to repair and shot down more German aircraft in the Battle of Britain than everything else put together. Более It went on to fight in North Africa, Malta, Russia and Burma as a fighter-bomber.
Североамериканский Мустанг III/IV	Long-range fighter and reconnaissance	—	1942–1947	Meteor and Vampire	The RAF asked for the Mustang, took the first Allison-engined versions for tactical reconnaissance, and suggested fitting it with a Merlin — the change that turned it into the best long-range escort fighter of the war. Более RAF Mustang IIIs and IVs escorted bombers and chased V-1s.
Шорт Стирлинг	Heavy bomber, glider tug and transport	—	1940–1946	Lancaster and Halifax	The first British four-engined heavy bomber, hobbled by an Air Ministry requirement that its wingspan fit a standard hangar, which limited its altitude and made it the most vulnerable of the three heavies. Более It was withdrawn from bombing in 1944 and finished the war towing gliders at Arnhem and on D-Day.
Североамериканский Митчелл	Средний бомбардировщик	—	1942–1946	Mosquito and Canberra	Supplied under Lend-Lease and flown by No. 2 Group on daylight tactical bombing over France and the Low Countries, alongside Dutch and other Allied crews in RAF service.
Hawker Typhoon	Ground attack	—	1941–1945	Tempest	A failure as an interceptor that became the best ground-attack aircraft of the North-West Europe campaign. Более Typhoons with rockets and bombs broke up German armour in the Falaise pocket and at Mortain, at a cost in pilots that was extremely high.
Болтон Пол Дефайент	Turret fighter, later night fighter and target tug	—	1939–1945	Beaufighter and Mosquito	A fighter with no forward-firing guns, only a four-gun power turret. It had one good day over Dunkirk, when German pilots mistook it for a Hurricane, and was then slaughtered. Более Withdrawn from day fighting in 1940, it did useful work as a night fighter and target tug.
Армстронг Уитвурт Уитли	Heavy bomber, maritime patrol and glider tug	—	1937–1945	Halifax and Lancaster	One of the three front-line bombers of 1939, nose-down in level flight and very slow. Более Whitleys dropped the first RAF leaflets over Germany and the first bombs on Italy, then moved to Coastal Command and the airborne forces.
Глостер Гладиатор	Боец	—	1937–1945	Hurricane and Spitfire	The RAF’s last biplane fighter, obsolete in 1939 and still fighting in Norway, over Malta and in East Africa in 1940 and 1941 because there was nothing else to send.
Curtiss Tomahawk и Kittyhawk	Истребитель и истребитель-бомбардировщик	—	1941–1945	Spitfire and Mustang	The RAF and the Commonwealth air forces in the Western Desert flew the P-40 in large numbers as a fighter-bomber. Более It was outclassed above 15,000 feet and perfectly adequate below it, which is where the desert war was fought.
Крепость Боинг	Heavy bomber, maritime patrol and electronic warfare	—	1941–1945	—	The RAF tried the B-17 as a high-altitude day bomber in 1941, found the early version unsuitable and passed the type to Coastal Command for long-range maritime patrol and to No. Более 100 Group for radio countermeasures.
Консолидированная Каталина	Морской патрульный гидросамолет	—	1941–1945	Sunderland and Shackleton	The long-endurance flying boat of the Atlantic convoy battle. It was an RAF Catalina that re-found the Bismarck in May 1941 after the Royal Navy lost contact.
Бристоль Бленхейм	Light bomber and fighter	—	1937–1944	Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito	In 1936 the Blenheim was faster than the fighters meant to intercept it; by 1940 it was a death trap, and the daylight raids it flew against shipping and airfields in 1940 and 1941 were among the costliest operations of the war for the crews involved.
Хэндли Пейдж Хэмпден	Средний бомбардировщик и торпедоносец	—	1938–1943	Lancaster and Halifax	The third of the 1939 bombers, cramped to the point that crew members could not change places in flight. Более Withdrawn from Bomber Command in 1942 and used as a torpedo bomber by Coastal Command.
Перчатка Глостера	Боец	—	1935–1940	Gladiator and Hurricane	The last open-cockpit fighter in RAF service and the first to make a radar-directed interception, in an experiment over the North Sea in 1937 that pointed directly at the Dowding System.
Хокер Харт	Легкий бомбардировщик	—	1930–1939	Battle and Blenheim	A biplane light bomber faster than the fighters of its day, and the parent of a whole family — Demon, Audax, Hind, Hardy — that equipped much of the RAF in the 1930s, at home and on imperial policing duty.
Hawker Fury	Перехватчик	—	1931–1939	Hurricane and Spitfire	The RAF’s first fighter able to exceed 200 miles an hour in level flight, and the elegant high point of the biplane fighter. It is not the Sea Fury, a different and much later aircraft.
Хэндли Пейдж Хейфорд	Тяжелый бомбардировщик	—	1933–1939	Whitley and Wellington	The last biplane heavy bomber in RAF service, with the fuselage slung under the upper wing. Более A Heyford was the aircraft used in the Daventry experiment of February 1935, the first practical demonstration that an aeroplane could be detected by radio waves.
Бристольский бульдог	Боец	—	1929–1937	Gauntlet and Gladiator	For most of the early 1930s the Bulldog equipped about a third of RAF Fighter Command’s predecessor, the Air Defence of Great Britain. Douglas Bader lost his legs in one in 1931.
Авро 504	Trainer, and early bomber and night fighter	—	1913–1933	Tutor and Hart trainers	The aircraft on which the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and then the RAF learned to fly, for twenty years. Более Avro 504s also flew the first British strategic bombing raid of the First World War, against the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen in November 1914.
Викерс Вими	Тяжелый бомбардировщик	—	1919–1933	Virginia and Heyford	Built to bomb Berlin and finished too late to do it. Более In RAF service it equipped the heavy bomber squadrons of the 1920s and served in Egypt and the Middle East; a civil-registered Vimy made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919.
Армстронг Уитвурт Сискин	Боец	—	1924–1932	Bulldog	One of the first RAF fighters of all-metal construction, and a mainstay of the very small home defence force of the 1920s, when the whole RAF was fighting for its existence.
Истребитель Bristol F.2	Two-seat fighter and army cooperation	—	1917–1932	Audax and Atlas	The Brisfit had a disastrous debut in April 1917 and then, once crews learned to fly it as a single-seater with a sting in the tail, became one of the best aircraft of the war. Более It stayed in RAF service for fifteen years, much of it on imperial policing in Iraq and on the North-West Frontier.
Airco DH.9 и DH.9A	Day bomber	—	1918–1931	Wapiti	The DH.9 was a worse aeroplane than the DH.4 it replaced, because of an inadequate engine; the re-engined DH.9A was much better and became the standard RAF bomber of the 1920s, flying air control operations in Iraq, Aden and on the North-West Frontier.
Sopwith Snipe	Боец	—	1918–1926	Grebe, Siskin and Woodcock	The RAF’s standard fighter at the end of the First World War and for most of the years immediately after it, when the service was cut from nearly 200 squadrons to a couple of dozen.
Sopwith Camel	Боец	—	1917–1920	Snipe	Credited with more air-to-air victories than any other Allied aircraft of the First World War.
Кондиционер DH.4	Day bomber and reconnaissance	—	1917–1920	DH.9A	The best British day bomber of the First World War, fast enough to outrun many fighters, and the aircraft on which the Independent Force began its raids into Germany in 1918.
Handley Page O/400	Heavy night bomber	—	1918–1920	Викерс Вими	The RAF’s heavy night bomber of 1918 and the aircraft of the Independent Force, which took the war to German industrial cities — the practical beginning of the strategic bombing idea that shaped the service for the next thirty years.
Sopwith Dolphin	Боец	—	1918–1919	Snipe	A back-staggered Sopwith with the pilot’s head through the upper wing, good at altitude and used against high-flying German reconnaissance aircraft in the last year of the war.
Sopwith Pup	Боец	—	1916–1918	Camel	A Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps fighter, gentle and beautifully balanced, and the aircraft in which Edwin Dunning made the first landing on a moving ship in August 1917.
Sopwith Triplane	Боец	—	1917–1918	Camel	A Royal Naval Air Service fighter whose rate of climb so alarmed the Germans that it prompted a wave of triplane designs, the Fokker Dr.I among them. Более Few reached RAF service after the merger.
Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter	Two-seat fighter and bomber	—	1916–1918	Camel and DH.4	The first British aircraft to enter service with a synchronised machine gun firing through the propeller, flown by both the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
SPAD S.VII	Боец	—	1916–1918	Camel and Dolphin	A strong, fast French fighter bought for several Royal Flying Corps squadrons in France and for Middle East service, valued for its ability to dive without breaking up.
SPAD XIII	Боец	—	1917–1918	Camel and Snipe	The more powerful development of the S.VII, used in small numbers by the Royal Flying Corps before British types caught up.
Ньюпорт 11	Боец	—	1916–1917	Nieuport 17 and Camel	French-built and flown by the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916, when British-designed fighters were losing badly to the Fokker monoplanes. Более Its service ended before the RAF was formed; it is listed here because the RAF’s lineage runs through the RFC and RNAS.

Авиабазы

Where the Royal Air Force flies from, at home and abroad

Black pins are active stations, hollow pins the ones that have closed. Quick Reaction Alert is held round the clock from Lossiemouth in the north and Coningsby in the south. A dozen entries below are radar heads, headquarters or closed stations with no aerodrome, so they carry no pin.

Действующая авиабаза Закрыто или резервНажмите на значок булавки, чтобы открыть основную страницу.

The United Kingdom

4 of the 46 bases above sit outside the United Kingdom, so the world map has to pull back until the home airfields cannot be told apart. The same pins again, without the overseas bases.

База	ИКАО	Статус	Взлетная полоса	Подразделения и самолеты
Ascension Island BaseAscension Island		Активный	—	Ascension Island Base: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station AldergroveCounty Antrim, Northern Ireland	EGAA	Активный	07/252,780 mрифленый асфальт17/351,891 masphalt with porous friction coat	No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Станция ЛеучарсFife, Scotland	EGQL	Активный	08/262,586 mblacktop and concrete	Leuchars Aerodrome: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 612 (County of Aberdeen) Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. East of Scotland Universities Air Squadron: Тип не указан RAF air defence at Leuchars: Тип не указан
Ministry of Defence Boscombe DownWiltshire, England	EGDM	Активный	05/233205 мasphalt with concrete05N/23N766 m	Empire Test Pilots’ School: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Mount Pleasant ComplexEast Falkland, Falkland Islands	EGYP	Активный	10/282,589 mасфальт и бетон05/231,525 mасфальт и бетон	No. 1435 Flight: Тайфун FGR4 No. 1312 Flight: Voyager KC3, Atlas C1 No. 1310 Flight: Chinook HC6A
Королевские военно-воздушные силы АкротириЗападная суверенная военная база, Кипр	LCRA	Активный	10/282745 мblacktop with concrete	84-я эскадрилья: Юпитер HC2 Подразделение оперативной поддержки на Кипре: Приписанных самолетов нет. Грифон и пума в Акротири: Griffin HAR2, Puma HC2
Royal Air Force Barkston HeathЛинкольншир, Англия	EGYE	Активный	06/241,868 mblacktop with concrete ends10/281,318 mblacktop with concrete ends	Relief landing ground for Cranwell: Тип не указан
Королевские ВВС БенсонОксфордшир, Англия	ЭГУБ	Активный	01/191,825 mblacktop	No. 28 (Army Cooperation) Squadron: Chinook HC6A No. XXII Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. Jupiter HC2 interim medium helicopter: Юпитер HC2 Joint Helicopter Support Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 606 Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. Oxford University Air Squadron: Тип не указан No. 6 Air Experience Flight: Тип не указан No. 33 Squadron: Puma HC2 No. 230 Squadron: Puma HC2
Королевские ВВС БоулмерNorthumberland, England		Активный	—	No. XIX Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 20 Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 144 Signals Unit: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 9 RAF Police and Security Squadron (Air C2 and Space): Приписанных самолетов нет. Control and Reporting Centre: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские ВВС Брайз-НортонОксфордшир, Англия	EGVN	Активный	07/253050 м	10-я эскадрилья: Космический корабль Voyager KC2/KC3 101-я эскадрилья: Космический корабль Voyager KC2/KC3 99-я эскадрилья: Globemaster C-17A XXIV эскадрилья: Globemaster C-17A, Atlas C1 30-я эскадрилья: Атлас С1 № 1XX эскадрилья: Атлас С1 206-я испытательно-оценочная эскадрилья: Атлас С1 2-я эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 501-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 622-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 4624-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 4626-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 2624-я эскадрилья Королевского вспомогательного полка ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. Британская эскадрилья мобильной воздушной авиации: Приписанных самолетов нет. 47-я эскадрилья: Геркулес C4/C5
Королевский военно-воздушный колледж КрэнвеллЛинкольншир, Англия	ЕГИД	Активный	08/262,081 masphalt with concrete ends01/191462 мasphalt with concrete ends06/241,197 mтрава03/211,103 mтрава	No. 45 Squadron: Phenom T1 No. LVII Squadron: Prefect T1 No. 3 Flying Training School: Prefect T1, Phenom T1 No. VI Flying Training School: Tutor T1 Central Flying School: Приписанных самолетов нет. East Midlands Universities Air Squadron: Tutor T1 RAF Officer Training Academy: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 8 RAF Police and Security Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские ВВС КонингсбиЛинкольншир, Англия	EGXC	Активный	07/252744 мasphalt with concrete	3-я (истребительная) эскадрилья: Тайфун FGR4 11-я (истребительная) эскадрилья: Тайфун FGR4 12-я эскадрилья: Тайфун FGR4 29-я эскадрилья: Тайфун FGR4, Тайфун Т3 № XLI испытательно-оценочная эскадрилья: Тайфун FGR4 Мемориальный авиаотряд Битвы за Британию: Спитфайр, Ураган, Ланкастер, Дакота, бурундук Демонстрационная группа «Тайфун»: Тайфун FGR4 Центр интеграции воздушного и наземного транспорта: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force CosfordShropshire, England	EGWC	Активный	06/241,118 m	No. 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. University of Birmingham Air Squadron: Тип не указан No. 1 School of Technical Training: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 2 School of Technical Training: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 1 Radio School: Приписанных самолетов нет. Defence School of Photography: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские ВВС ДигбиЛинкольншир, Англия		Активный	—	Joint Service Signals Unit Digby: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 591 Signals Unit: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 399 Signals Unit: Приписанных самолетов нет. Aerial Erectors School: Приписанных самолетов нет. Fighter station and RCAF Station Digby: Спитфайр, Комар
Royal Air Force FylingdalesNorth Yorkshire, England		Активный	—	No. 2 Space Warning Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force GibraltarГибралтар	LXGB	Активный	09/271,798 mblacktop	Royal Air Force Gibraltar: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские ВВС ХалтонBuckinghamshire, England	ЭГВН	Активный	02/201,161 mтрава07/25868 mтрава	No. 7644 Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. Aviator Training Academy: Приписанных самолетов нет. Central Training School: Приписанных самолетов нет. School of Technical Training and the Aircraft Apprentice Scheme: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force HenlowBedfordshire, England		Активный	—	RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine: Приписанных самолетов нет. Joint Arms Control Implementation Group: Приписанных самолетов нет. Forensic Exploitation Flight: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force High WycombeBuckinghamshire, England		Активный	—	Headquarters Air Command: Приписанных самолетов нет. Группа № 1: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 2 Group: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 11 Group: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 22 Group: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 1 Space Operations Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. European Air Group: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские ВВС ХонингтонSuffolk, England	EGXH	Активный	08/262745 масфальт и бетон	No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 2623 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 3 RAF Police (Reserve) Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 2 RAF Police Counter Intelligence Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 611 Volunteer Gliding Squadron: Тип не указан
Royal Air Force KenleyGreater London, England	EGKN	Активный	02/20823 m07/25758 mтрава	No. 615 Volunteer Gliding Squadron: Viking T1 glider
Королевские военно-воздушные силы КиркньютонMidlothian, Scotland	ЭГКТ	Активный	05L/23R617 м11/29698 mтрава	No. 661 Volunteer Gliding Squadron: Тип не указан
Royal Air Force LeemingNorth Yorkshire, England	EGXE	Активный	16/342,292 mporous friction course over blacktop03/21793 m	No. 100 Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 607 (County of Durham) Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 609 (West Riding) Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation Unit: Приписанных самолетов нет. Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron: Тип не указан Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron: Тип не указан Tactical Communications Wing: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские ВВС Литтл РиссингтонGloucestershire, England	EGVL	Активный	04/221,490 m09/271,074 m13/31975 m	No. 637 Volunteer Gliding Squadron: Тип не указан
Королевские ВВС ЛоссимутМорей, Шотландия	EGQS	Активный	05/232764 мconcrete and grooved marshall asphalt10/281850 мconcrete and blacktop	1-я (истребительная) эскадрилья: Тайфун FGR4 II эскадрилья (армейского взаимодействия): Тайфун FGR4 6-я эскадрилья: Тайфун FGR4 9-я (бомбардировочная) эскадрилья: Тайфун FGR4 VIII эскадрилья: Клиновидный хвост AEW Mk1 120-я эскадрилья: Посейдон MRA1 201-я эскадрилья: Посейдон MRA1 42-я (торпедоносная) эскадрилья: Посейдон MRA1, Wedgetail AEW Mk1 51-я эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 2622-я эскадрилья Королевского вспомогательного полка ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 4-я эскадрилья полиции и безопасности Королевских ВВС (Typhoon): Приписанных самолетов нет. Горноспасательная служба Королевских ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские ВВС МархамНорфолк, Англия	ЕГИМ	Активный	05/232783 мasphalt with concrete thresholds01/191,864 мбетон и асфальт	617-я эскадрилья: Молния Ф-35Б 207-я эскадрилья: Молния Ф-35Б 809-я военно-морская авиационная эскадрилья: Молния Ф-35Б Штаб-квартира Молниеносной Силы: Приписанных самолетов нет. 15-я эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 2620-я эскадрилья Королевского вспомогательного полка ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 6-я эскадрилья полиции и безопасности Королевских ВВС (F35): Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force MonaAnglesey, Wales	EGOQ	Активный	04/221,647 m	Relief landing ground for Valley: Тип не указан
Royal Air Force NortholtGreater London, England	EGWU	Активный	07/251,683 mgrooved marshall asphalt	No. XXXII Squadron: Envoy IV CC1 No. 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 601 (County of London) Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 63 Squadron RAF Regiment: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 1 Aeronautical Information Documents Unit: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force OdihamHampshire, England	EGVO	Активный	09/271,838 мprc asphalt	No. 7 Squadron: Chinook HC6A No. 18 Squadron: Chinook HC6A No. 27 Squadron: Chinook HC6A Chinook Role Demonstration Team: Chinook HC6A
Royal Air Force ShawburyShropshire, England	EGOS	Активный	18/361,831 мblacktop and concrete04/221,375 mblacktop and concrete	No. 60 Squadron: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1 660 Squadron Army Air Corps: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1 670 Squadron Army Air Corps: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1 705 Naval Air Squadron: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1 Central Flying School (Helicopter): Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1 Defence College of Air and Space Operations: Приписанных самолетов нет. Aircraft Maintenance and Storage Unit: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force SpadeadamCumbria, England		Активный	—	Electronic Warfare Tactics Range: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force St MawganCornwall, England		Активный	12/302744 мconcrete and grooved asphalt	No. 505 Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. Defence Survive, Evade, Resist and Extract Training Organisation: Приписанных самолетов нет. Maritime reconnaissance at St Mawgan: Ланкастер, Sea King HAR3
Royal Air Force SwanwickHampshire, England		Активный	—	No. 78 Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Royal Air Force SyerstonNottinghamshire, England	EGXY	Активный	06/241,810 m15/331,352 m11/29559 m	No. 2 Flying Training School: Viking T1 glider, Robin DR400 Central Gliding School: Viking T1 glider No. 644 Volunteer Gliding Squadron: Viking T1 glider
Royal Air Force TopcliffeNorth Yorkshire, England	EGXZ	Активный	02/201,826 m13/311,256 mstone mastic asphalt07/251,042 мmarshall asphalt	Volunteer gliding at Topcliffe: Тип не указан
Royal Air Force ValleyAnglesey, Wales	EGOV	Активный	13/312290 масфальт и бетон01/191,572 mасфальт и бетон	No. IV Squadron: Hawk T2 No. XXV (Fighter) Squadron: Hawk T2 No. 72 Squadron: Texan T1 No. 202 Squadron: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1 Горноспасательная служба Королевских ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские военно-воздушные силы УоддингтонЛинкольншир, Англия	EGXW	Активный	02/202939 мblacktop with concrete ends	XIII эскадрилья: Защитник RG Mk 1 31-я эскадрилья: Защитник RG Mk 1 14-я эскадрилья: Теневой R1 51-я эскадрилья: Заклепочное соединение RC-135W 54-я эскадрилья: Заклепочное соединение RC-135W, Shadow R1 56-я испытательно-оценочная эскадрилья: Приписанных самолетов нет. 92-я эскадрилья: Приписанных самолетов нет. Пилотажная группа Королевских ВВС: Ястреб Т1 616-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 2-я эскадрилья разведки и наблюдения: Приписанных самолетов нет. 3-я эскадрилья разведки и наблюдения: Приписанных самолетов нет. 2503-я эскадрилья Королевского вспомогательного полка ВВС: Приписанных самолетов нет. 5-я эскадрилья полиции и безопасности Королевских ВВС (ISTAR): Приписанных самолетов нет.
Королевские ВВС УиттерингCambridgeshire, England	EGXT	Активный	07/252,755 mgrooved marshall asphalt with brushed concrete thresholds	No. 16 Squadron: Tutor T1 No. 115 Squadron: Tutor T1 No. 504 Squadron RAuxAF: Tutor T1 No. 71 (Inspection and Repair) Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 93 (Expeditionary Armaments) Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 5001 Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. Joint Aircraft Recovery and Transportation Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. No. 1 Expeditionary Logistics Squadron: Приписанных самолетов нет. Cambridge University Air Squadron: Tutor T1 University of London Air Squadron: Tutor T1 No. 5 Air Experience Flight: Tutor T1 Harrier Force at Wittering: Harrier GR3, GR5, GR7 and GR9
Royal Air Force WoodvaleMerseyside, England	EGOW	Активный	03/211,648 m08/261,059 m	No. 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron RAuxAF: Приписанных самолетов нет. Manchester and Salford Universities Air Squadron: Тип не указан Liverpool University Air Squadron: Тип не указан No. 10 Air Experience Flight: Тип не указан Final operational RAF Spitfire flight: Spitfire PR XIX
Royal Air Force WytonCambridgeshire, England		Активный	—	National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence: Приписанных самолетов нет. 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic): Приписанных самолетов нет. Pathfinder Force: Комар, Ланкастер

Ни одна авиабаза не соответствует этому поисковому запросу.

Боевой порядок

Who is stationed where in the Royal Air Force

Flying units by station, current units first. Squadron numbers are written as the Royal Air Force writes them, which means Roman numerals for some squadrons and Arabic for the rest. Units belonging to the Royal Navy or the Army, or shared with them, say so.

Королевские ВВС Лоссимут · EGQSГруппа № 1

1-я (истребительная) эскадрильяИстребительная эскадрилья · действующая: Тайфун FGR4
II эскадрилья (армейского взаимодействия)Истребительная эскадрилья · действующая: Тайфун FGR4
6-я эскадрильяИстребительная эскадрилья · действующая: Тайфун FGR4
9-я (бомбардировочная) эскадрильяИстребительная эскадрилья · действующая: Тайфун FGR4
VIII эскадрильяЭскадрилья раннего предупреждения воздушно-десантных войск · действующая: Клиновидный хвост AEW Mk1
120-я эскадрильяМорская патрульная эскадрилья · действующая: Посейдон MRA1
201-я эскадрильяМорская патрульная эскадрилья · действующая: Посейдон MRA1
42-я (торпедоносная) эскадрильяПодразделение оперативной переподготовки ISTAR · активное: Посейдон MRA1, Wedgetail AEW Mk1
51-я эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВСПолк Королевских ВВС, полевая эскадрилья · действующий: Приписанных самолетов нет.
2622-я эскадрилья Королевского вспомогательного полка ВВСЭскадрилья резервного полка Королевских ВВС · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
4-я эскадрилья полиции и безопасности Королевских ВВС (Typhoon)Эскадрилья полиции Королевских ВВС · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Горноспасательная служба Королевских ВВСГорноспасательная команда · активна: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Королевские ВВС Конингсби · EGXCГруппа № 1

3-я (истребительная) эскадрильяИстребительная эскадрилья · действующая: Тайфун FGR4
11-я (истребительная) эскадрильяИстребительная эскадрилья · действующая: Тайфун FGR4
12-я эскадрильяИстребительная эскадрилья · действующая: Тайфун FGR4
29-я эскадрильяПодразделение по модернизации истребителей «Тайфун» · активное: Тайфун FGR4, Тайфун Т3
№ XLI испытательно-оценочная эскадрильяЭскадрилья испытаний и оценки · действующая: Тайфун FGR4
Мемориальный авиаотряд Битвы за БританиюИсторический полет · активный: Спитфайр, Ураган, Ланкастер, Дакота, бурундук
Демонстрационная группа «Тайфун»Команда отображения · активна: Тайфун FGR4
Центр интеграции воздушного и наземного транспортаПодразделение поддержки · активно: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Королевские ВВС Мархам · EGYMГруппа № 1

617-я эскадрильяИстребительная эскадрилья · действующая: Молния Ф-35Б
207-я эскадрильяБлок преобразования напряжения для защиты от молнии · активный: Молния Ф-35Б
809-я военно-морская авиационная эскадрильяИстребительная эскадрилья морской авиации · действующая: Молния Ф-35Б
Штаб-квартира Молниеносной Силыштаб сил · объединенный: Приписанных самолетов нет.
15-я эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВСПолк Королевских ВВС, полевая эскадрилья · действующий: Приписанных самолетов нет.
2620-я эскадрилья Королевского вспомогательного полка ВВСЭскадрилья резервного полка Королевских ВВС · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
6-я эскадрилья полиции и безопасности Королевских ВВС (F35)Эскадрилья полиции Королевских ВВС · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Королевские ВВС Брайз-Нортон · EGVNВоенно-транспортные силы, 1-я группа

10-я эскадрильяЭскадрилья дозаправки в воздухе и транспортная эскадрилья · действующая: Космический корабль Voyager KC2/KC3
101-я эскадрильяЭскадрилья дозаправки в воздухе и транспортная эскадрилья · действующая: Космический корабль Voyager KC2/KC3
99-я эскадрильяСтратегическая транспортная эскадрилья · действующая: Globemaster C-17A
XXIV эскадрильяЭскадрилья подготовки воздушно-мобильных войск · действующая: Globemaster C-17A, Atlas C1
30-я эскадрильяТактическая транспортная эскадрилья · действующая: Атлас С1
№ 1XX эскадрильяТактическая транспортная эскадрилья · действующая: Атлас С1
206-я испытательно-оценочная эскадрильяЭскадрилья испытаний и оценки · действующая: Атлас С1
2-я эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВСПолк Королевских ВВС, полевая эскадрилья · действующий: Приписанных самолетов нет.
501-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВСРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
622-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВСРезервная эскадрилья военно-транспортной авиации · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
4624-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВСЭскадрилья резервных перемещений · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
4626-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВСРезервная авиамедицинская эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
2624-я эскадрилья Королевского вспомогательного полка ВВСРезервная эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВС · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Британская эскадрилья мобильной воздушной авиацииЭскадрилья перемещений · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
47-я эскадрилья—: Геркулес C4/C5

Королевские военно-воздушные силы Уоддингтон · EGXWСилы ISTAR, 1-я группа

XIII эскадрильяЭскадрилья беспилотных летательных аппаратов · действующая: Защитник RG Mk 1
31-я эскадрильяЭскадрилья беспилотных летательных аппаратов · действующая: Защитник RG Mk 1
14-я эскадрильяЭскадрилья ISTAR · действующая: Теневой R1
51-я эскадрильяЭскадрилья радиотехнической разведки · действующая: Заклепочное соединение RC-135W
54-я эскадрильяПодразделение оперативной переподготовки ISTAR · активное: Заклепочное соединение RC-135W, Shadow R1
56-я испытательно-оценочная эскадрильяЭскадрилья испытаний и оценки · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
92-я эскадрильяТактическая и учебная эскадрилья · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Пилотажная группа Королевских ВВСRed Arrows · Display team · active: Ястреб Т1
616-я эскадрилья Королевских вспомогательных ВВСРезервная эскадрилья ISTAR · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
2-я эскадрилья разведки и наблюденияРазведывательная эскадрилья · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
3-я эскадрилья разведки и наблюденияРазведывательная эскадрилья · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
2503-я эскадрилья Королевского вспомогательного полка ВВСРезервная эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВС · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
5-я эскадрилья полиции и безопасности Королевских ВВС (ISTAR)Эскадрилья полиции Королевских ВВС · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Odiham · EGVOJoint Aviation Command

No. 7 SquadronSupport helicopter squadron · joint: Chinook HC6A
No. 18 SquadronSupport helicopter squadron · joint: Chinook HC6A
No. 27 SquadronSupport helicopter squadron · joint: Chinook HC6A
Chinook Role Demonstration TeamDisplay team · joint: Chinook HC6A

Royal Air Force Benson · EGUBJoint Aviation Command

No. 28 (Army Cooperation) SquadronSupport helicopter operational conversion unit · joint: Chinook HC6A
No. XXII SquadronOperational evaluation unit · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Jupiter HC2 interim medium helicopterFlying unit · joint: Юпитер HC2
Joint Helicopter Support SquadronSupport squadron · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 606 Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Oxford University Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Тип не указан
No. 6 Air Experience FlightAir experience flight · reserve: Тип не указан
No. 33 Squadron—: Puma HC2
No. 230 Squadron—: Puma HC2

Royal Air Force Valley · EGOVNo. 4 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

No. IV SquadronAdvanced fast-jet training squadron · active: Hawk T2
No. XXV (Fighter) SquadronAdvanced fast-jet training squadron · active: Hawk T2
No. 72 SquadronBasic fast-jet training squadron · active: Texan T1
No. 202 SquadronHelicopter training squadron · active: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1
Горноспасательная служба Королевских ВВСГорноспасательная команда · активна: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Shawbury · EGOSNo. 1 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

No. 60 SquadronHelicopter training squadron · active: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1
660 Squadron Army Air CorpsArmy helicopter training squadron · joint: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1
670 Squadron Army Air CorpsArmy helicopter training squadron · joint: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1
705 Naval Air SquadronRoyal Navy helicopter training squadron · joint: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1
Central Flying School (Helicopter)Instructor training unit · active: Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1
Defence College of Air and Space OperationsTraining college · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Aircraft Maintenance and Storage UnitMaintenance and storage unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force College Cranwell · EGYDNo. 3 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

No. 45 SquadronMulti-engine pilot training squadron · active: Phenom T1
No. LVII SquadronElementary flying training squadron · active: Prefect T1
No. 3 Flying Training SchoolFlying training school · active: Prefect T1, Phenom T1
No. VI Flying Training SchoolFlying training school · active: Tutor T1
Central Flying SchoolInstructor training unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
East Midlands Universities Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Tutor T1
RAF Officer Training AcademyOfficer training unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 8 RAF Police and Security SquadronЭскадрилья полиции Королевских ВВС · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Wittering · EGXTRAF Support Force, No. 2 Group

No. 16 SquadronElementary flying training squadron · active: Tutor T1
No. 115 SquadronInstructor training squadron · active: Tutor T1
No. 504 Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Tutor T1
No. 71 (Inspection and Repair) SquadronAircraft repair squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 93 (Expeditionary Armaments) SquadronArmaments squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 5001 SquadronExpeditionary airfield engineering squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Joint Aircraft Recovery and Transportation SquadronAircraft recovery squadron · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 1 Expeditionary Logistics SquadronLogistics squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Cambridge University Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Tutor T1
University of London Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Tutor T1
No. 5 Air Experience FlightAir experience flight · reserve: Tutor T1
Harrier Force at Wittering1969–2010: Harrier GR3, GR5, GR7 and GR9

Royal Air Force Northolt · EGWUNo. 2 Group

No. XXXII SquadronCommand support air transport squadron · active: Envoy IV CC1
No. 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 601 (County of London) Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 63 Squadron RAF RegimentQueen’s Colour Squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 1 Aeronautical Information Documents UnitAeronautical information unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Leeming · EGXENo. 2 Group

No. 100 SquadronAggressor and joint terminal attack control squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 34 Squadron RAF RegimentПолк Королевских ВВС, полевая эскадрилья · действующий: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 607 (County of Durham) Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 609 (West Riding) Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation UnitTraining unit · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Yorkshire Universities Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Тип не указан
Northumbrian Universities Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Тип не указан
Tactical Communications WingCommunications wing · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Королевские военно-воздушные силы Акротири · LCRAБританские войска на Кипре

84-я эскадрильяПоисково-спасательная и пожарная эскадрилья · действующая: Юпитер HC2
Подразделение оперативной поддержки на КипреОпорный узел · соединение: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Грифон и пума в Акротири2023–2025: Griffin HAR2, Puma HC2

Mount Pleasant Complex · EGYPBritish Forces South Atlantic Islands

No. 1435 FlightFighter flight · active: Тайфун FGR4
No. 1312 FlightAir-to-air refuelling and transport flight · active: Voyager KC3, Atlas C1
No. 1310 FlightSupport helicopter flight · joint: Chinook HC6A

Royal Air Force Gibraltar · LXGBBritish Forces Gibraltar

Royal Air Force GibraltarStation flight and airfield operations · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Woodvale · EGOWNo. 22 Group

No. 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Manchester and Salford Universities Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Тип не указан
Liverpool University Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Тип не указан
No. 10 Air Experience FlightAir experience flight · reserve: Тип не указан
Final operational RAF Spitfire flight—: Spitfire PR XIX

Royal Air Force Syerston · EGXYNo. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

No. 2 Flying Training SchoolFlying training school · active: Viking T1 glider, Robin DR400
Central Gliding SchoolInstructor training unit · active: Viking T1 glider
No. 644 Volunteer Gliding SquadronVolunteer gliding squadron · reserve: Viking T1 glider

Royal Air Force Cosford · EGWCDefence College of Technical Training, No. 22 Group

No. 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
University of Birmingham Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Тип не указан
No. 1 School of Technical TrainingTraining school · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 2 School of Technical TrainingTraining school · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 1 Radio SchoolTraining school · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Defence School of PhotographyTraining school · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Honington · EGXHRAF Regiment and RAF Police headquarters, No. 2 Group

No. 1 Squadron RAF RegimentПолк Королевских ВВС, полевая эскадрилья · действующий: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 2623 Squadron RAuxAF RegimentРезервная эскадрилья полка Королевских ВВС · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 3 RAF Police (Reserve) SquadronReserve RAF Police squadron · reserve: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 2 RAF Police Counter Intelligence SquadronЭскадрилья полиции Королевских ВВС · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 611 Volunteer Gliding SquadronVolunteer gliding squadron · reserve: Тип не указан

Royal Air Force Halton · EGWNNo. 22 Group

No. 7644 Squadron RAuxAFReserve media squadron · reserve: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Aviator Training AcademyTraining unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Central Training SchoolTraining unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
School of Technical Training and the Aircraft Apprentice Scheme1917–: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Ministry of Defence Boscombe Down · EGDMDefence Equipment and Support, operated by QinetiQ

Empire Test Pilots’ SchoolTest pilot school · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station Aldergrove · EGAAJoint Aviation Command

No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Leuchars Station · EGQLBritish Army, with an RAF aerodrome unit

Leuchars AerodromeAerodrome unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 612 (County of Aberdeen) Squadron RAuxAFРезервная авиамедицинская эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
East of Scotland Universities Air SquadronUniversity air squadron · reserve: Тип не указан
RAF air defence at Leuchars1920–2014: Тип не указан

Royal Air Force Barkston Heath · EGYENo. 3 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

Relief landing ground for CranwellRelief landing ground · active: Тип не указан

Royal Air Force Mona · EGOQNo. 4 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

Relief landing ground for ValleyRelief landing ground · active: Тип не указан

Royal Air Force Topcliffe · EGXZNo. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

Volunteer gliding at TopcliffeVolunteer gliding squadron · reserve: Тип не указан

Royal Air Force Little Rissington · EGVLNo. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

No. 637 Volunteer Gliding SquadronVolunteer gliding squadron · reserve: Тип не указан

Royal Air Force Kenley · EGKNNo. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

No. 615 Volunteer Gliding SquadronVolunteer gliding squadron · reserve: Viking T1 glider

Royal Air Force Kirknewton · EGKTNo. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group

No. 661 Volunteer Gliding SquadronVolunteer gliding squadron · reserve: Тип не указан

Royal Air Force St Mawgan · No. 22 Group

No. 505 Squadron RAuxAFРезервная эскадрилья · резерв: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Defence Survive, Evade, Resist and Extract Training OrganisationTraining organisation · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Maritime reconnaissance at St Mawgan1951–2008: Lancaster, Sea King HAR3

Royal Air Force Boulmer · Air Command and Control Force, No. 11 Group

No. XIX SquadronAir battle management squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 20 SquadronAir battle management training squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 144 Signals UnitSignals unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 9 RAF Police and Security Squadron (Air C2 and Space)Эскадрилья полиции Королевских ВВС · действующая: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Control and Reporting CentreOperations centre · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Fylingdales · UK Space Command

No. 2 Space Warning SquadronSpace warning squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Digby · Joint Service Signals Organisation

Joint Service Signals Unit DigbySignals intelligence unit · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 591 Signals UnitSignals unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 399 Signals UnitSignals unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Aerial Erectors SchoolTraining school · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Fighter station and RCAF Station Digby1918–1955: Spitfire, Mosquito

Royal Air Force High Wycombe · Headquarters Air Command

Headquarters Air CommandService headquarters · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Группа № 1Group headquarters · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 2 GroupGroup headquarters · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 11 GroupGroup headquarters · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 22 GroupGroup headquarters · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
No. 1 Space Operations SquadronSpace operations squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
European Air GroupMultinational headquarters · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Henlow · No. 22 Group

RAF Centre of Aviation MedicineAviation medicine unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Joint Arms Control Implementation GroupArms control unit · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Forensic Exploitation FlightForensic unit · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Spadeadam · Центр воздушно-космической войны

Electronic Warfare Tactics RangeRange · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Royal Air Force Wyton · UK Strategic Command

National Centre for Geospatial IntelligenceIntelligence centre · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic)Army regiment · joint: Приписанных самолетов нет.
Pathfinder Force1942–: Mosquito, Lancaster

Royal Air Force Swanwick · No. 11 Group

No. 78 SquadronAir traffic management squadron · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Ascension Island Base · Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands

Ascension Island BaseStation headquarters · active: Приписанных самолетов нет.

Поисковое задание не дало результатов.

Хронология

Royal Air Force milestones, 1914 to today

1918

1 April: the Royal Air Force is formed by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, the first independent air force in the world. Hugh Trenchard had become the first Chief of the Air Staff on 18 January.

1922

1 October: the RAF takes over military command in Iraq under the air control doctrine agreed at the Cairo Conference of 1921 — the first time an airman directed all military operations in a country. The same method is applied on the North-West Frontier, in Aden, Transjordan and Sudan.

1936

Fighter, Bomber, Coastal and Training Commands are formed. Hugh Dowding takes Fighter Command and begins building the radar, reporting and control network that becomes the Dowding System.

1940

10 July to 31 October: the Battle of Britain. The RAF counts 2,945 aircrew as having flown in it, 544 of whom were killed; 312 ground personnel died on the ground. About one in five of the aircrew were not British.

1942

14 February: the area bombing directive. Arthur Harris takes over Bomber Command a week later. Over the war Bomber Command flies 501,536 sorties, loses 8,325 aircraft and 55,573 aircrew killed, and drops just over a million tonnes of bombs.

1945

13–15 February: the attack on Dresden, the sharpest point of an argument about area bombing that is still running. Bomber Command aircrew receive no campaign medal until the Bomber Command Clasp is announced in December 2012.

1948

26 June: the Berlin Airlift begins. At its peak the RAF flies around 400 missions a day in Operation Plainfare, delivering nearly 400,000 tons and evacuating more than 130,000 people — close to a quarter of all Allied supplies.

1955

The Vickers Valiant enters service and the RAF takes on the British strategic nuclear deterrent, joined by the Vulcan from 1956 and the Victor from 1957.

1957

Duncan Sandys’s Defence White Paper declares that guided missiles will replace manned fighters and cancels a generation of British aircraft. The industry never fully recovers.

1965

6 April: TSR-2 is cancelled in the Budget, seven months after its first flight, and the tooling is destroyed. Two airframes survive, at Duxford and Cosford.

1969

The Royal Navy’s Polaris submarines take over the strategic deterrent, ending the RAF’s primary nuclear role after thirteen years. The service keeps the tactical WE.177 bomb.

1982

1 May: the first Black Buck mission. A Vulcan flies almost 6,600 nautical miles from Ascension to Port Stanley and back, supported by up to eleven Victor tankers, and puts a bomb through the runway. Five of seven planned missions are completed.

1991

The Gulf War. The RAF deploys 157 aircraft including 49 Tornado GR1s, 18 Tornado F3s and 12 Jaguars, flies 6,108 sorties in Desert Storm and loses six Tornado GR1s in action.

1998

22 April: the last WE.177 nuclear weapons are withdrawn. For the first time since 1955 the United Kingdom has no air-delivered nuclear weapon, and will not have one again until the F-35A arrives.

2010

19 October: the Strategic Defence and Security Review retires the Harrier and the Nimrod MR2 and cancels the Nimrod MRA4, whose completed airframes are cut up. The National Audit Office later puts the waste at 3.4 billion pounds. Nine years follow with no maritime patrol aircraft.

2019

The Tornado is retired after 39 years, having flown in every major British air campaign since 1991. The Shorts Tucano goes the same year.

2021

The E-3D Sentry and the Sentinel R1 leave service before their replacements arrive, and the Wedgetail order is cut from five aircraft to three in the Integrated Review. The Defence Committee later calls the cut "the most perverse" decision in the command paper.

2023

28 June: the last RAF Hercules flight, after 56 years. The Atlas C1 takes over as the main air mobility platform and the Defence Committee warns that special forces support has been squeezed.

2025

2 June: the Strategic Defence Review. On 25 June the government announces twelve F-35As and a return to NATO’s nuclear sharing mission, the first British air-delivered nuclear role since 1998. The Puma retires in March after 54 years, Protector enters service on 16 June and the Reaper flies its last mission on 3 October.

2026

The first Wedgetail AEW1 arrives at RAF Lossiemouth at the end of May. On 1 September Air Command is redesignated Air and Space Command, and on 23 September the RAF announces No. III Space Effects Squadron — the RAF’s first dedicated offensive and defensive space unit.

Боевой послужной список

Во всех войнах, в которых участвовали Королевские военно-воздушные силы

Вылеты и поражения там, где это указано в протоколе, и полная пустота там, где этого нет.

22конфликты

1918Первый

8,332Самолет потерян

56,445Убит

Первая мировая война 1918 Inherited the air war on 1 April 1918 from the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, and fought the last seven months of it in every theatre, including the first sustained strategic bombing campaign against German industrial cities
Управление воздушным движением и имперская полиция 1919–1939 Policed British mandated and colonial territory from the air, taking over from ground garrisons
Битва за Францию 1939–1940 Fought the air campaign over France and the Low Countries with an expeditionary force of bombers and fighters, and covered the evacuation from Dunkirk
Битва за Британию 1940 Defended the United Kingdom against the Luftwaffe’s attempt to win air superiority as a precondition for invasion, using the world’s first integrated air defence system
Стратегическая бомбардировка 1939–1945 Flew the British strategic bombing campaign against German industry, transport and cities, and from 1944 against the invasion’s transport targets and the V-weapon sites

Откройте полную боевую историю.

Из журнала

Royal Air Force news from Afterburner

Everything MiGFlug’s magazine has published on the Royal Air Force and the aircraft it flies. Этот список обновляется автоматически — новые статьи Afterburner появляются здесь автоматически.

24 сентября 2026 г.RAF Hawk T2 Crash at Valley: Both Pilots Eject, Fleet PausedA Hawk T2 went down near Pencarnisiog minutes after taking off from RAF Valley. Both crew ejected. By Wednesday evening the RAF had paused the whole Hawk fleet.Прочитайте рассказ 23 September 2026RAF Voyager Deploys to Help Defend Saudi AirspaceBritain is sending a single Voyager tanker to support Saudi defences against Houthi missiles and drones — the first foreign military help Riyadh has received for this fight.Прочитайте рассказ 17 September 2026Skybolt and Blue Streak: How the RAF Lost Britain’s BombBritain cancelled its own missile, bet the deterrent on an American one, and lost that too. At Nassau it got Polaris instead, and with it the RAF lost the job it was built for.Прочитайте рассказ 16 September 2026Самый тяжёлый день: 18 августа 1940 года обошёлся дороже, чем День битвы за Британию.The Battle of Britain has a famous date, and it is 15 September. It is not the day that cost the most. That was Sunday 18 August 1940, when the Luftwaffe made an all-out attempt to destroy RAF Fighter Command.Прочитайте рассказ 14 сентября 2026 г.Искатели Королевских ВВС: эскадрильи, осветившие цель.In 1941 a civil servant counted the photographs and found Bomber Command was ploughing fields. The Pathfinders were the answer, and the answer was technical rather than moral.Прочитайте рассказ 8 сентября 2026 г.Barking Creek 1939: The RAF Shot Down Its Own FightersThree days into the war, a radar fault sent RAF squadrons after a raid that did not exist. Spitfires shot down two Hurricanes and killed the first British fighter pilot of the war.Прочитайте рассказ

Все истории в Afterburner

Вопросы и ответы

Everything people ask about the Royal Air Force

Какие самолеты будут использоваться Королевскими ВВС в 2026 году?

The combat fleet is the Еврофайтер Тайфун FGR4 — 124 airframes on charge at 1 April 2026, 111 of them in service — and the Молния Ф-35Б, 47 aircraft shared with the Royal Navy. Behind them sit nine Poseidon MRA1 maritime patrol aircraft, three Wedgetail AEW1, three Rivet Joint, eight Shadow R1, 16 Protector RG1, 22 Atlas C1, eight C-17 Globemasters, 14 Voyager tankers, 45 Chinooks and the training fleets of Hawk T1 and T2, Texan, Prefect, Phenom, Tutor, Viking, Juno and Jupiter.

Сколько человек служит в Королевских ВВС?

31,392 UK Regular Forces at 1 July 2026, of whom 27,851 are trained — 6,997 officers and 20,854 other ranks. Counting reserves, all RAF service personnel number 35,978. The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and Royal Auxiliary Air Force add 3,097, the serving ex-regular reserve 1,288 and sponsored reserves 201. The service has grown slightly for the first time in years: regular strength is up 2.8 per cent on 2025.

Кто является главой Королевских военно-воздушных сил?

Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth has been Chief of the Air Staff since 29 August 2025. He is a former Harrier pilot who flew over Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan, commanded No. 4 Squadron and No. 1 Group, and was the Ministry of Defence’s first Director Space. He succeeded Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton, who became Chief of the Defence Staff. He is accountable to the Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, who was appointed on 20 July 2026.

Являются ли Королевские ВВС старейшими военно-воздушными силами в мире?

It is the oldest independent air force, which is the claim that matters. It was formed on 1 April 1918 by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service into a third armed service with its own ministry. Military flying units existed earlier in several countries — the Royal Flying Corps itself dates from 1912 — but they were branches of armies and navies. The idea that air power needs a service of its own starts here, and every independent air force in the world is descended from the argument.

Зачем были созданы Королевские военно-воздушные силы?

Because of the Gotha bomber raids on London in 1917. They showed that an enemy could attack a country’s cities directly and that no single British authority was responsible for stopping it or doing the same in return. Jan Smuts wrote a report recommending a separate air service and a separate air ministry; the Air Council was formed in January 1918 and the Royal Air Force followed on 1 April. Hugh Trenchard, appointed the first Chief of the Air Staff on 18 January 1918, then spent the 1920s keeping it independent.

Что такое управление воздушным движением и почему оно вызывает споры?

Air control was how the RAF justified its existence in the 1920s: policing imperial territory by bombing rather than by garrison, because it was cheaper. At the Cairo Conference of 1921 Trenchard proposed that the RAF take over military command in Iraq, and on 1 October 1922 it did — the first time an airman commanded all military operations in a country. It was also used on the North-West Frontier, in Aden, Transjordan, Somaliland and Sudan. The RAF’s own Air Power Review has assessed it critically: the method held whole communities responsible for individual acts, the bombing was inaccurate — 102 of 182 bombs missed in one November 1928 operation — and populations adapted. The service’s independence was bought partly by bombing villages, and the RAF now says so itself.

Что же на самом деле обеспечило победу в Битве за Британию?

The Dowding System, not the Спитфайр. Chain Home radar detected raids forming over France, the 30,000-strong Observer Corps tracked them inland, filter rooms resolved the plots and sector operations rooms turned them into interception orders by telephone. It was the first integrated air defence system anywhere and it allowed an outnumbered force to be in the right place. The Ураган did most of the actual shooting: it equipped more squadrons and destroyed more German aircraft than everything else combined.

Сколько пилотов участвовало в Битве за Британию и сколько погибло?

The RAF counts 2,945 aircrew as having flown at least one authorised sortie with Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940. 544 of them were killed during the battle and another 795 before the war ended. A further 312 RAF ground personnel were killed on the ground. The Battle of Britain London Monument’s roll of clasp holders gives 2,937 rather than 2,945; the difference is a matter of how marginal cases are counted. About one in five of the aircrew were not British: the roll gives 145 Poles, 127 New Zealanders, 112 Canadians, 88 Czechoslovaks, 32 Australians, 28 Belgians, 25 South Africans, 13 French, 10 Irish, nine Americans, three Rhodesians and one man each from Barbados, Jamaica and Newfoundland. No. 303 (Polish) Squadron was among the highest-scoring units in the battle.

Сколько членов экипажей бомбардировочной авиации погибло во Второй мировой войне?

55,573, out of about 125,000 who served — a death rate near 45 per cent, worse than any other major arm of the British forces in either world war. A further 8,403 were wounded and 9,838 taken prisoner, and more than 8,000 died in training accidents. The Imperial War Museum puts the odds plainly: 51 per cent killed on operations, 12 per cent killed or wounded in accidents, 13 per cent prisoners or evaders, and 24 per cent came through unharmed. Bomber Command flew 501,536 sorties and lost 8,325 aircraft.

Почему экипажи бомбардировочной авиации не получили боевую медаль?

Because area bombing became politically uncomfortable almost as soon as the war ended. Winston Churchill’s victory broadcast did not mention Bomber Command, Arthur Harris was the only major British commander not given a peerage at the time, and no campaign star was struck. The crews received nothing specific to their service until the Bomber Command Clasp, worn on the 1939–1945 Star, was announced in December 2012. The memorial in Green Park was unveiled on 28 June 2012, sixty-seven years after the war. Most of the 55,573 dead had no surviving comrades left to see either.

Была ли бомбардировка Дрездена военным преступлением?

Этот спор длится уже восемьдесят лет, и эта страница не дает ему разрешения. Документально подтверждено следующее: бомбардировочное командование атаковало Дрезден в ночь на 13 февраля 1945 года, а ВВС США последовали за ним днем, 14 и 15 февраля; город горел; число погибших оценивается в широком диапазоне, а цифры, распространяемые в то время и впоследствии различными сторонами, были как завышены, так и занижены. Официальная позиция Великобритании заключалась в том, что Дрезден был законным транспортным и промышленным объектом, поддерживающим Восточный фронт. Вкратце, рейд соответствовал действовавшей тогда политике, именно эта политика и является предметом спора, а экипажи, управлявшие самолетом, выполняли приказы правительства того времени.

Когда Королевские ВВС обладали ядерным оружием?

From 1955 to 1998. The V-force — the Valiant, то Vulcan и Victor — carried the British strategic deterrent from 1955, with Blue Danube, then Yellow Sun and the Blue Steel stand-off missile. The American cancellation of Skybolt in December 1962 and the Nassau agreement that followed handed the deterrent to the Royal Navy, and Polaris took over in 1969. The RAF kept the tactical WE.177 bomb until the last were withdrawn on 22 April 1998. From then until 2025 Britain had no air-delivered nuclear weapon at all.

Королевские ВВС снова получат ядерное оружие?

Yes, in the NATO sense. On 25 June 2025 the government announced the purchase of twelve F-35A aircraft, which will be available to fly NATO’s nuclear deterrence mission in a crisis. That is the first British air-delivered nuclear role since the WE.177 was withdrawn in 1998. The weapons involved would be American B61-12 bombs held under NATO nuclear sharing arrangements, not British warheads; Britain’s own deterrent remains the Royal Navy’s Trident force. The aircraft go to No. 207 Squadron at RAF Marham, where they will also be used as trainers. The link between the two is less tidy than the announcement made it sound: in July 2026 the RAF’s Director Capability and Programmes, Air Vice-Marshal Jim Beck, said the twelve aircraft had been bought for the conversion units and that the nuclear role was a separate matter.

Почему проект TSR-2 был отменен?

It was cancelled in the Budget of 6 April 1965, seven months after its first flight on 27 September 1964, on cost grounds, in favour of buying the American F-111K — which was itself cancelled in 1968. The jigs and tooling were destroyed and two airframes survive, at Duxford and Cosford. TSR-2 is the most mythologised event in British aviation and the myth should be kept separate from the record. The decision, the stated reasons and the destruction of the tooling are documented. The persistent claims of deliberate sabotage and direct American pressure are not, and repeating them as fact does the real story no favours. TSR-2 followed Duncan Sandys’s 1957 Defence White Paper, which had declared that guided missiles would replace manned fighters and cancelled a generation of British aircraft; between the two decisions the British fighter and bomber design teams broke up, and every British combat aircraft since has been a collaboration or an American purchase.

Что представляли собой набеги «Чёрного оленя»?

Seven bombing missions planned against Port Stanley during the 1982 Falklands campaign, of which five were completed. A single Vulcan flew almost 6,600 nautical miles from Ascension Island and back, about sixteen hours, supported by a chain of up to eleven Victor tankers refuelling each other so that one bomber could reach the target. On the first mission, on 1 May 1982, twenty-one 1,000 lb bombs were dropped across the runway and one hit the centre of it. They were the longest-range bombing raids anyone had flown at the time. The physical damage was modest; the effect was that Argentine fast jets could not use the airfield and Mirage IIIs were withdrawn to defend the mainland.

Сколько самолетов потеряли Королевские ВВС в войне в Персидском заливе 1991 года?

Six Торнадо GR1s were lost in action, most of them in the first fortnight, when the force was attacking Iraqi airfields from fifty feet with JP233 runway-denial weapons in heavy anti-aircraft fire. Accounts differ on the total once non-combat accidents are included: the Air Historical Branch describes four GR1s lost in the early airfield missions with four aircrew killed and four captured but gives no consolidated total, while other accounts give eight Tornados lost overall. The RAF deployed 157 aircraft and about 6,000 people and flew 6,108 sorties during Desert Storm.

Что случилось с Nimrod MRA4?

Проект был отменен 19 октября 2010 года в рамках Стратегического обзора обороны и безопасности, с превышением бюджета примерно на 789 миллионов фунтов стерлингов и задержкой более чем на девять лет. Готовые самолеты начали разрезать на верфи в Вудфорде с января 2011 года. Изначально было заказано 21 самолет, затем заказ сократили до девяти, и было построено пять. Национальное аудиторское управление в феврале 2012 года пришло к выводу, что отмена проекта привела к растрате 3,4 миллиарда фунтов стерлингов; другие отчеты указывают на общую сумму расходов около 4 миллиардов. После этого Великобритания девять лет обходилась без морских патрульных самолетов любого типа, пока первый Boeing Poseidon MRA1 не прибыл на базу ВВС Лоссимут 4 февраля 2020 года. Этот пробел был восполнен за счет заимствования самолетов союзников.

Почему Королевские ВВС сняли с вооружения самолеты Harrier в 2010 году?

The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review had to choose between the Harrier GR9 and the Торнадо GR4, and chose the Tornado on the grounds that it was more capable and more numerous and was then flying in Afghanistan. The Harrier went at once: the last RAF sorties were in December 2010 and the airframes were sold to the United States Marine Corps for spares. It left Britain with no fixed-wing carrier aviation at all until the F-35B arrived, a gap of roughly eight years, at the same time as the new carriers were being built.

Что такое клиновидный хвост и почему их всего три?

The Wedgetail AEW1 is a converted Boeing 737 with a Northrop Grumman MESA radar that does airborne early warning and control — finding and tracking aircraft and ships, and directing fighters and tankers. Five were ordered in 2019 and the order was cut to three in the 2021 Integrated Review. The Defence Committee called that "the most perverse" decision in the command paper: a 40 per cent capability cut for a 12 per cent acquisition saving, leaving Britain unable to meet its NATO commitment. The E-3D Sentry was retired in 2021, so there was no airborne early warning aircraft at all until the first Wedgetail reached RAF Lossiemouth at the end of May 2026.

Что пришло на смену самолёту RAF Hercules?

The Atlas C1, the Airbus A400M. The last Hercules flights were on 28 June 2023 after 56 years, and the 22 Atlases at RAF Brize Norton now do the bulk of RAF air mobility, carrying 30 tonnes over 2,400 nautical miles or 116 passengers. Whether the A400M really covers everything the Hercules did — short, rough strips and special forces work in particular — has been argued about ever since. The Defence Committee said in 2023 that the early retirement had "severely reduced" air mobility capacity and hit special forces support hardest.

Why are the RAF’s Typhoon numbers falling?

Because the Tranche 1 aircraft are being scrapped and nothing is replacing them. Typhoon holdings went from 137 airframes at 1 April 2024 to 124 at 1 April 2026. At 1 July 2025 the fleet was four Tranche 1, 67 Tranche 2 and 40 Tranche 3, and 26 of the 30 Tranche 1 aircraft had already been broken up for spares. The published out-of-service dates are 2027 for Tranche 1 and 2040 for Tranches 2 and 3. No new British order has been placed; ministers have pointed to Turkey’s order of October 2025 as filling the production gap at Warton before GCAP.

Что такое GCAP и когда он появляется?

Глобальная программа создания боевых самолетов (Global Combat Air Programme) — это разработка истребителя шестого поколения, создаваемого совместно с Японией и Италией для замены Typhoon с 2035 года в соответствии с договором, подписанным в декабре 2023 года и ратифицированным Великобританией в октябре 2024 года. В Соединенном Королевстве его часто называют Tempest. Министерство обороны выделило 2 миллиарда фунтов стерлингов с 2021 года и заложило в бюджет более 12 миллиардов на следующее десятилетие, а в Плане оборонных инвестиций от июня 2026 года было добавлено более 8 миллиардов фунтов стерлингов на четыре года. Летающий демонстрационный образец находится на стадии окончательной сборки для первого полета в 2027 году. Количество самолетов пока не объявлено.

Почему некоторые эскадрильи Королевских ВВС используют римские цифры?

Tradition, and it is not optional. No. IX (Bomber) Squadron, No. XI (Fighter) Squadron, No. XV Squadron, No. XXIV Squadron, No. XXV (F) Squadron, No. XXXII (The Royal) Squadron, No. XLI Test and Evaluation Squadron, No. LVII Squadron and No. LXX Squadron are written that way by the RAF itself. No. 1 Squadron, No. 6 Squadron, No. 12 Squadron and No. 617 Squadron are not. There is no rule that predicts which is which; you follow the Air Historical Branch and the squadron’s own page. Getting it wrong is the fastest way to look like you do not know the subject.

Истребители F-35 используются в Королевских ВВС или Королевском флоте?

И то, и другое, и это различие имеет значение. Авиабаза «Лайтнинг» на базе ВВС Мархам укомплектована совместно: 617-я и 207-я эскадрильи, являющиеся оперативным подразделением переподготовки, принадлежат Королевским ВВС, а 809-я эскадрилья морской авиации — Королевскому флоту. Они базируются на авианосцах HMS Queen Elizabeth и HMS Prince of Wales, а также в Норфолке. Аналогичная совместная система работает и в обратном порядке в рамках Объединенного вертолетного командования, где эскадрильи вертолетов Chinook Королевских ВВС базируются вместе с подразделениями армейской авиации и Королевского флота. Называть всю авиабазу «Лайтнинг» исключительно Королевскими ВВС — неправильно.

Что не так с подготовкой пилотов Королевских ВВС?

There are not enough course places, and students wait. At 1 June 2026, of 119 fast-jet trainees, 36 were on holdover between courses and another 12 were waiting to start an operational conversion unit — 48 of 119, about 40 per cent, not progressing. The problem is long-standing: more than 300 personnel were held in the pipeline in September 2022, and the Defence Committee called the delays "completely unacceptable" in 2023, noting that the Ministry of Defence would spend over 50 million pounds sending pilots abroad to train while the contractors ran the system faced no penalties. RAF flying training squadrons fell from ten to seven between 2025 and 2026.

В чём заключался скандал с вербовкой в Королевские ВВС?

In 2020 and 2021, 161 enlisted aviators who were women or from ethnic minority backgrounds were accelerated onto initial training ahead of other candidates, and 31 men consequently missed the opportunity of a 5,000 pound joining bonus. The head of RAF recruitment resigned over it in August 2022 and a non-statutory inquiry was set up. Its report was published on 29 June 2023. Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton, newly in post, accepted that some men had been discriminated against, apologised unreservedly, committed to paying the men what they had missed, and accepted all twelve of the inquiry’s recommendations.

What do the Red Arrows fly and what happens next?

The Hawk T1, which entered RAF service in 1976 and joined the Red Arrows in 1980. The fleet has shrunk from 67 airframes on charge in 2024 to 24 in 2026, with 18 in service; No. 100 Squadron gave up its Hawk T1s on 31 March 2022, leaving the team as effectively the only operator. The Hawk is expected to last to the end of the 2029 display season. The Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 put 360 million pounds into recapitalising military jet training but deliberately did not name an aircraft. The Boeing-Saab T-7A, the Leonardo M-346 and the Korean T-50 are the candidates, and UK workshare is a live political issue.

How big is the RAF compared with the Cold War?

Much smaller, and the comparison is stark. At the end of the Cold War the RAF had tens of thousands more people and several times the number of front-line squadrons, with a substantial force permanently in Germany. In 2026 it has 31,392 regulars, nine combat air squadrons, 124 Typhoons and 47 F-35Bs, and no permanent presence in Germany at all. Set against that, individual aircraft are enormously more capable, the weapons are precise where they were not, and one Typhoon carrying Meteor and Brimstone does things a squadron of Jaguars could not. Whether that trade works in a long war against a peer opponent is the central argument in British defence today.

What does Air and Space Command mean?

On 1 September 2026 Air Command, the RAF’s operational headquarters at RAF High Wycombe, was redesignated Air and Space Command. The RAF has led British military space since the ballistic missile early warning station at Fylingdales in 1963 and the Skynet 1A launch in 1969, but the domain now has three squadrons of its own: No. I Space Operations Squadron at High Wycombe, No. II Space Warning Squadron at Fylingdales and No. III Space Effects Squadron, announced on 23 September 2026 to conduct offensive and defensive space operations. The government has put 880 million pounds into space-based intelligence and control activities for 2026–27 to 2029–30.

Where is the RAF based overseas?

RAF Akrotiri in the Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus is the most important, and has supported every British Middle East operation since 1956; it was struck by an Iranian-made drone on the night of 1–2 March 2026, though not one launched from Iran. RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands hosts a permanent Typhoon detachment and air transport link established after the 1982 war. There are also RAF Gibraltar and RAF Ascension Island, the staging post that made the Falklands campaign and the Black Buck raids possible. The RAF has had no permanent station in Germany since 2020.

Продолжить тур

Read the aircraft the Royal Air Force flew

Каждый тип корабля, имеющий свою страницу в Книге Зверей, сначала поступивший на вооружение, а затем — по году вывода из состава флота.

Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4В эксплуатацииLockheed Martin Lightning F-35BВ эксплуатацииBoeing Chinook HC6AВ эксплуатацииBAE Systems Hawk T2В эксплуатацииBAE Systems Hawk T1В эксплуатацииGeneral Atomics Reaper MQ-9A2007–2025Lockheed Hercules C1/C3/C4/C51967–2023Panavia Tornado GR1/GR41979–2019Panavia Tornado F2/F31985–2011Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R11974–2011British Aerospace Harrier GR5/GR7/GR91989–2010Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR1/MR21969–2010BAE Systems Nimrod MRA41996–2010SEPECAT Jaguar GR1/GR31973–2007English Electric Канберра1951–2006Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR1/GR31969–1994Блэкберн Букканир S21969–1994Хоукер Хантер1954–1994BAC Jet Provost1955–1993Handley Page Victor B1/B2/K21957–1993McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG1/FGR21969–1992Avro Shackleton MR1/MR2/MR3/AEW21951–1991Английская электрическая молния1959–1988Avro Vulcan B1/B21956–1984

Источники и дополнительная литература

Все факты проверены.

Ministry of Defence: UK armed forces equipment and formations 2026accredited official statistics published 20 August 2026; aircraft holdings and in-service figures at 1 April 2026 and formation counts. The primary source for almost every fleet number on this page
UK armed forces equipment and formations 2026 — data tablesworksheets 7, 8 and 9: fixed-wing and uncrewed aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, and RAF and Royal Auxiliary Air Force formations
Background Quality Report: UK armed forces equipment and formations 2026definitions of "in service", the effective forward fleet and availability contracts, which is why several fleets have no in-service figure
Ministry of Defence: Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics, 1 July 2026RAF regular strength, trained strength and reserves at 1 July 2026
Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics 1 July 2026 — accessible Excel tablestables 2c and 3a: RAF strength and commitment, and Full Time Trained Strength against workforce requirement
Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics indexused to confirm that 1 July 2026 is the latest edition
Royal Air Force: Chief of the Air Staffthe current Chief of the Air Staff and his career
Royal Air Force: Air Marshal Harv Smyth appointed new Chief of the Air Staffannouncement of 16 July 2025 and the succession from Sir Rich Knighton
GOV.UK: Secretary of State for Defencethe current Secretary of State and the date of appointment
Royal Air Force: Aircraftthe service’s own list of current, training and retired aircraft types
Королевские военно-воздушные силы: эскадрильиавторитетный список названий эскадрилий, именно так была установлена римская и арабская нумерация на этой странице, а также мест дислокации.
Royal Air Force: Newsused to date the 2026 changes
Royal Air Force: Per Ardua ad Astra — Air Command redesignated to Air and Space Commandthe redesignation of 1 September 2026 and the RAF’s space lineage back to Fylingdales in 1963
Royal Air Force: RAF launches first ever Space SquadronNo. III Space Effects Squadron, 23 September 2026, and the 880 million pound space investment
Royal Air Force: RAF F-35A marks a significant step in delivering a more lethal Integrated Force and joining NATO Nuclear Mission25 June 2025: twelve F-35A, No. 207 Squadron at RAF Marham, the 27-aircraft second phase and the 138-aircraft headmark
Royal Air Force: Lightning F-35Bthe Lightning Force, its squadrons and the initial operating capability dates
Royal Air Force: Poseidon MRA1nine aircraft, the squadrons at RAF Lossiemouth, and the link back to the Nimrod MRA4 cancellation
Royal Air Force: Wedgetail AEW Mk1No. VIII Squadron and No. 42 (TB) Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth, and the aircraft’s role
Royal Air Force: Shadow R1the urgent operational requirement origin, the squadrons and the Shadow R2 upgrade
Королевские военно-воздушные силы: Вояджерthe core and surge fleets, the AirTanker arrangement and the KC2 and KC3 marks
Королевские ВВС: Atlas C1 (A400M)22 aircraft, the four squadrons at RAF Brize Norton and the succession from the Hercules
Королевские ВВС: Envoy IV CC1two Falcon 900LX with No. XXXII (The Royal) Squadron from 1 June 2022, replacing four BAe 146
Royal Air Force: Hawk T1the Red Arrows, the No. 100 Squadron withdrawal on 31 March 2022 and the expectation of service to the end of the 2029 display season
Royal Air Force: Reaper (MQ-9A)No. 39 Squadron and No. XIII Squadron, 2007 to 2025
Royal Air Force: RAF Reaper makes final flight3 October 2025, eighteen years and more than 173,000 flying hours
Royal Air Force: 84 Squadronthe firefighting and support role at RAF Akrotiri
Royal Air Force: 1.4 billion pound modernised Chinook fleetthe 2021 announcement of 14 H-47(ER) aircraft with deliveries then promised from 2026
Royal Air Force: Chief of the Air Staff statement on the RAF Recruiting Inquiry29 June 2023: 161 candidates accelerated, 31 men who missed a joining bonus, the apology and the twelve recommendations
Королевские военно-воздушные силы: Битва за БританиюСобственные данные Королевских ВВС: 2945 членов экипажа, 544 погибших, 312 человек наземного персонала, а также данные системы Даудинга.
Лондонский памятник Битве за Британию: ЛетчикиСписок военнослужащих ВВС: 2937 человек и распределение по национальностям.
Имперские военные музеи: Битва за БританиюКорпус наблюдателей, фигуры зенитных и аэростатов заграждения, а также этапы сражения.
Имперские военные музеи: жизнь и смерть в бомбардировочной авиации.Шансы на выживание: 51 процент погибли во время операций, 12 процентов в результате несчастных случаев, 13 процентов — в плену, 24 процента остались невредимыми.
Королевские военно-воздушные силы: важнейшая роль Королевских ВВС в Берлинском воздушном мостеОколо 400 миссий Королевских ВВС в день, доставлено почти 400 000 тонн грузов и эвакуировано более 130 000 человек.
Королевские ВВС: 40-я годовщина операции «Блэк Бак»Семь запланированных и пять выполненных миссий, почти 6600 морских миль, до одиннадцати танкеров Victor и награды.
Центр исследований воздушной и космической мощи Королевских ВВС, Обзор воздушной мощи: переосмысление истории управления воздушным движением.Критическая оценка системы управления воздушным движением, данная самими Королевскими ВВС, Каирская конференция, принятие командования в Ираке 1 октября 1922 года и данные о точности 1928 года.
Музей Королевских ВВС: Хронология британской военной авиации, 1918 год.Совет ВВС, назначение Тренчарда 18 января 1918 года и перехват самолета «Гота» 44-й эскадрильей 28 января.
Музей Королевских ВВС: Хронология британской военной авиации, 1956 год.год Суэцкого кризиса и создания оперативной группы по расследованию атомных испытаний; использовался для определения даты.
University of York, Nuclear Disarmament and Irreversibility project: Denuclearising the RAF (Ritchie and Walker, 2024)the V-force taking the deterrent in 1955 and 1956, the handover to Polaris in 1969, the WE.177 variants and the final withdrawal on 22 April 1998
Историческое отделение Королевских ВВС: исследования после холодной войныуказатель опубликованных материалов Исторического отдела ВВС, включая исследование операции «Херрик IV» по Афганистану.
Отдел истории ВВС: Королевские ВВС и Первая война в Персидском заливе — Уроки воздушной мощиВ ходе операции «Буря в пустыне» было задействовано 157 самолетов, в том числе 49 Tornado GR1, 18 Tornado F3 и 12 Jaguar, совершено 6108 вылетов, а также зафиксированы потери на первых аэродромах.
Историческое отделение ВВС: ВВС Великобритании в операции «Единый защитник», Ливия, 2011 год.около 3000 вылетов Королевских ВВС из 26 320, 2100 ударных вылетов из 9658, 640 целей, а также данные о вылетах и вооружении по каждому типу самолетов.
Историческое отделение ВВС: Королевские ВВС в операции «Телик», 2003 год — наступательная авиация.Более 120 самолетов с неподвижным крылом, данные о вылетах каждого крыла, а также потеря самолета Tornado 9-й бомбардировочной эскадрильи в результате столкновения с батареей Patriot 22 марта 2003 года.
Отдел истории авиации: Королевские ВВС над Ираком и Косово, 1997–2000 гг.Операция «Болтон», вылет в бесполетную зону и фигуры заправщиков, а также «Пустынный лис».
Королевские ВВС: Операция «Шейдер»Собственный отчет Королевских ВВС о кампании против ИГИЛ за 2014 год.
Новости вооруженных сил: Операция «Шейдер» — британская миссия по разгрому ИГИЛ в Ираке и Сирии — подошла к концу.28 сентября 2024 г.: около 1400 целей поражено в ходе более чем 10 000 вылетов Королевских ВВС, а также график сворачивания деятельности коалиционных сил.
Хроника Королевских ВВС: Panavia Tornado GR1 в операциях Королевских ВВС в Персидском заливе, 1991 год.Шесть самолетов Tornado GR1 были потеряны на ранней стадии полета на малых высотах, а общее количество вылетов самолетов Tornado в рамках оперативной деятельности составило примерно 1500.
GOV.UK: The Strategic Defence Review 2025 — Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroadpublished 2 June 2025; the "NATO first" framing and the 2.5 per cent by 2027 and 3 per cent commitments
House of Commons Library: UK defence spending (CBP-8175)updated 2 September 2026: 62.0 billion pounds in 2025–26 rising to 79.1 billion by 2029–30, and the NATO percentage-of-GDP figures
House of Commons Library: Defence Investment Plan — key decisions (CBP-10935)the plan of 30 June 2026: more than 8 billion pounds for GCAP, over 1.1 billion for Typhoon, 300 million for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, more than 5 billion for drones and autonomy
House of Commons Library: What is the Global Combat Air Programme? (CBP-10143)updated 8 July 2026: the December 2023 treaty, UK ratification in October 2024, 2 billion pounds committed since 2021, in service 2035 and a demonstrator flight in 2027
House of Commons Library: Typhoon fighter sovereign capability (CDP-2025-0210)129 Typhoons with 107 in service at 1 April 2025, the Tranche 1 drawdown from spring 2025, the 2040 out-of-service date, and the minister’s statement of 29 October 2025 on the Turkish order filling the Warton gap
House of Commons Library debate pack: RAF E-7 Wedgetail programme (CDP-2025-0161)five ordered in 2019, cut to three in March 2021, the Defence Committee’s "absolute folly" and 40-per-cent-for-12-per-cent criticism, and the E-3D Sentry gap from 2021
House of Commons Defence Committee: Aviation Procurement — Winging it?10 September 2023: the Wedgetail cut called the most perverse decision in the command paper, the Hercules retirement said to have severely reduced air mobility, and pilot training delays called completely unacceptable
Forces News: RAF turns to US to help as more than 300 held up in its training programmethe written answer of 10 October 2022: about 30 held pre-flying training and about 280 between Military Flying Training System courses
UK Defence Journal: Dozens of RAF fast jet trainees stuck in pipeline9 June 2026, reporting written answers: 119 fast-jet trainees at 1 June 2026, 36 on holdover and 12 awaiting an operational conversion unit
UK Defence Journal: MoD sets out retirement and fleet numbers for Typhoonwritten answers of 1 September 2025: Tranche 1 out of service in 2027 and Tranches 2 and 3 in 2040; four Tranche 1, 67 Tranche 2 and 40 Tranche 3 aircraft; 26 of 30 Tranche 1 machines scrapped by 1 July 2025
UK Defence Journal: RAF Wedgetail update — testing under way at Lossiemouth21 June 2026, reporting a written answer: the first aircraft arrived at RAF Lossiemouth at the end of May 2026, the second was about to begin testing, the third was in modification at Birmingham, and the sustainment contract was signed in March 2026
UK Defence Journal: New jets confirmed for Red Arrows in Hawk replacement30 June 2026: 360 million pounds to recapitalise jet training, no aircraft named, and the T-7A, M-346 and T-50 in contention
European Security and Defence: Protector RG1 UAV has officially entered RAF service16 June 2025, No. 31 Squadron at RAF Waddington, 16 ordered, Paveway IV and Brimstone 3, and the succession from the Reaper
Janes: RAF reconstitutes 31 Squadron as new Protector unitthe reformation of No. 31 Squadron at RAF Waddington and No. XIII Squadron as the second front-line Protector unit
Janes: UK DIP 2026 — Chinook Force to face temporary but significant reduction ahead of planned new buy for 2030sthe variant split of about 8 HC5, 14 HC6 and 29 HC6A, the retirement of all HC6As by 2030, and the March 2024 contract for 14 H-47(ER) for delivery 2028 to 2032
FlightGlobal: RAF waves last Puma transport helicopters into retirementfarewell flights on 26 March 2025 after almost 54 years, with No. 33 Squadron the last operator
Forces News: Jupiter HC2 — the RAF’s small and agile replacement for the Puma enters servicesix H145 D3, in service 18 December 2025 at RAF Benson, deploying to Brunei and Cyprus, replacing the Bell 212, Bell 412 and part of the Puma task
Forces News: End of an era — C-130J Hercules makes final RAF flights28 June 2023, after 56 years, with No. 47 Squadron the last operator
Военно-авиационная информационная публикация Соединенного Королевства, текстовые данные об аэродроме AD 2Подразделение № 1 по авиационной информации; здесь представлены координаты аэродромных точек, высота над уровнем моря, обозначения взлетно-посадочных полос, их длина и тип покрытия для каждого военного аэродрома.
United Kingdom Aeronautical Information Publication, AD 2 (NATS)civil AIP, AIRAC 3 September 2026; used for Aldergrove, Cornwall Airport Newquay, Leeds East, Biggin Hill and Duxford
Royal Air Force: our stationsthe service’s own index of stations
Royal Air Force: No 1 Groupcombat air, air mobility, ISTAR and the display teams
Royal Air Force: No 2 Groupair bases and global enablement
Royal Air Force: No 11 Groupair command and control, UK air defence, No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group
Royal Air Force: No 22 Grouptraining; names the stations under it
Королевские ВВС ЛоссимутСтраница станции: базирующиеся эскадрильи и их роль
Королевские ВВС КонингсбиСтраница станции: базирующиеся эскадрильи, Мемориальный авиаотряд Битвы за Британию и пилотажная группа истребителей «Тайфун».
Королевские ВВС МархамСтраница станции: «Молниеносные силы», включая 809-ю эскадрилью морской авиации.
Королевские ВВС Брайз-НортонСтраница станции: эскадрильи воздушной мобильности и резервные эскадрильи
Королевские военно-воздушные силы УоддингтонСтраница станции: эскадрильи ISTAR и самолеты станции.
Royal Air Force Odihamstation page: the UK Chinook Force
Королевские ВВС Бенсонstation page: helicopter squadrons and lodger units
Royal Air Force Valleystation page: No. 4 Flying Training School and the Mountain Rescue Service
Royal Air Force Shawburystation page: tri-service helicopter training
Royal Air Force Cranwellstation page: the RAF College and No. 3 Flying Training School
Королевские ВВС Уиттерингstation page: Support Force headquarters, flying training and station history
Royal Air Force Northoltstation page: command support air transport
Royal Air Force Leemingstation page: expeditionary air operations units
Королевские военно-воздушные силы АкротириСтраница станции: Кипрское подразделение оперативной поддержки и 84-я эскадрилья
Mount Pleasant Complexstation page: Nos. 1435, 1312 and 1310 Flights, and the 1985 opening
Royal Air Force Gibraltarstation page: staging post role and the runway crossed by a public road
Ascension Island Basestation page: role, chain of command and current commanders
Королевские ВВС Хонингтонstation page: RAF Regiment and RAF Police headquarters, and station history
Royal Air Force Cosfordstation page: the Defence College of Technical Training
Royal Air Force Woodvalestation page: units and a dated station history
Royal Air Force Syerstonstation page: No. 2 Flying Training School and its satellite gliding airfields
Королевские ВВС Боулмерstation page: the control and reporting centre and a dated history
Royal Air Force Wytonstation page: states plainly that Wyton is no longer an operational airfield
Royal Air Force High Wycombestation page: Headquarters Air Command, the Groups and UK Space Command
Royal Air Force St Mawganstation page: the 2008 sale of the runway and the SERE training role
Королевские ВВС Дигбиstation page: signals units and the station’s fighter and RCAF history
Royal Air Force Fylingdalesstation page: ballistic missile early warning, 1963 and 1992
Королевские ВВС Халтонstation page: recruit training and the apprentice history
Royal Air Force Henlowstation page: lodger units and station history
Royal Air Force Spadeadamstation page: the electronic warfare tactics range and the Blue Streak history
Станция Леучарсstation page: army ownership, the RAF aerodrome unit and the 2014 and 2015 dates
VIII эскадрильяВертолёт Wedgetail AEW Mk1 в Лоссимуте, перевезённый из Уоддингтона в 2021 году.
42-я (ТБ) эскадрильяПодразделение оперативной переподготовки ISTAR, «Посейдон» и «Веджтейл».
10-я эскадрилья«Вояджер» в Брайз-Нортоне
101-я эскадрилья«Вояджер» в Брайз-Нортоне
99-я эскадрильяGlobemaster C-17 в Брайз-Нортоне
XXIV эскадрильяGlobemaster и Atlas в Брайз Нортон
30-я эскадрильяАтлас C1 в Брайз-Нортоне
47 SquadronBrize Norton; the page names no current type
Эскадрилья LXXАтлас C1 в Брайз-Нортоне
206-я испытательно-оценочная эскадрильяАтлас C1 в Брайз-Нортоне
XIII эскадрильяProtector RG Mk 1 в Уоддингтоне
31-я эскадрильяProtector RG Mk 1 в Уоддингтоне
14-я эскадрильяShadow R1 в Уоддингтоне
51-я эскадрильяЗаклепочное соединение RC-135W в Уоддингтоне
54-я эскадрильяПодразделение оперативной переподготовки ISTAR в Уоддингтоне
56-я испытательно-оценочная эскадрильяУоддингтон; самолеты в списке отсутствуют
92-я эскадрильяУоддингтон; тактика и подготовка, самолеты не указаны.
28(AC) SquadronChinook, the support helicopter operational conversion unit at Benson
XXII Squadronoperational evaluation unit of Joint Helicopter Command at Benson
IV SquadronHawk T2 at Valley
XXV (F) SquadronHawk T2 at Valley
72 SquadronTexan T1 at Valley
202 SquadronJuno HT1 and Jupiter HT1 at Valley
60 SquadronJuno and Jupiter at Shawbury, part of No. 1 Flying Training School
16 SquadronRAF Wittering; the squadron page gives Tutor T1 where the station page gives Prefect
115 SquadronTutor T1 at Wittering
XXXII SquadronEnvoy IV CC1 at Northolt
100 SquadronRAF Leeming; threat replication and close air support training
78 SquadronSwanwick; area air traffic management, no aircraft
612 Squadron RAuxAFLeuchars Station; aeromedical evacuation, no aircraft
Королевские ВВС «Красные стрелы»Тягач Hawk T1, базирующийся на авиабазе Королевских ВВС Уоддингтон.
Пилотажная группа Королевских ВВС «Красные стрелы» переезжает на новое место базирования в Линкольншире.the October 2022 move from Scampton to Waddington
Puma’s final flypastthe Puma HC2 farewell flight on 26 March 2025 after 54 years
Lodgement ceremony for 33 and 230 Squadron standardsboth squadrons’ standards lodged at RAF Cranwell on 15 October 2025
Jupiter HC2 enters service with Joint Aviation Commandfirst of six H145 D3 in service at RAF Benson on 17 December 2025
Новые вертолеты восстанавливают круглогодичную готовность Кипра к реагированию на чрезвычайные ситуации.Три самолета Jupiter HC Mk2 в составе 84-й эскадрильи, первый полет из Акротири 9 июля 2026 года.
Вертолётные возможности RAF Akrotiri перешли от Griffin к Puma.Последний вылет Griffin HAR2 состоялся 31 марта 2023 года; с 1 апреля 2023 года эстафету приняла команда Puma.
A Better Defence Estate, Ministry of Defence, November 2016the disposal table, including RAF Henlow technical site and airfield by 2020
Defence Minister outlines progress on building a Better Defence Estate, GOV.UKthe RAF to stop using Linton-on-Ouse by 2020 and Scampton by 2022
UK Defence Journal: New F-35As not bought for nuclear role, says BeckAir Vice-Marshal Jim Beck, 15 July 2026, on the purpose of the twelve F-35As
UK Military AIP, AD 2.2 aerodrome geographical and administrative data (EGXX-Name-Textual.pdf per aerodrome)Audit only, no changes: ARP checked for 30 military aerodromes (Lossiemouth, Coningsby, Marham, Brize Norton, Waddington, Odiham, Benson, Valley, Shawbury, Cranwell, Wittering, Northolt, Leeming, Akrotiri, Mount Pleasant, Gibraltar, Woodvale, Syerston, Cosford, Honington, Halton, Boscombe Down, Leuchars, Barkston Heath, Mona, Topcliffe, Little Rissington, Kenley, Kirknewton, Wattisham); every file value matches the published ARP to 0.00001 deg, sign and hemisphere correct.
UK AIP (NATS Aurora eAIP), AD 2.2, AIRAC 2026-09-03Audit only, no changes: EGAA Aldergrove, EGHQ Newquay (St Mawgan), EGCM Leeds East (Church Fenton), EGKB Biggin Hill, EGSU Duxford ARPs match the file exactly.
Hangars 1-4 (C-type hangars), Scampton, National Heritage List for England entry 1391594NGR SK 96657 79081 (Hangar 1, first of four NGRs given); point is on the airfield hangar line, not an ARP. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).
Buildings 186, 187, 188 and 189 (Aircraft Hangars), RAF Henlow, NHLE entry 1391623NGR TL 16614 36260; point is the listed hangar group on the station. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).
World War II fighter pen, Cold War blast walls and associated remains at the airfield formerly known as RAF Coltishall, Scottow, NHLE entry 1021425 (scheduled monument)NGR TG 26786 23378 (first of two NGRs); point is on the former airfield. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).
RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Rocket, Kingwater, NHLE entry 1413245NGR NY 61528 70358; the listed rocket stands at the station’s administrative and missile assembly area (NHLE 1413095 places the adjacent BOC plant 120 m north of it). Station camp, not the range. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).
Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer (Lincolnshire County Council HER), monument record MLI60621, RAF DigbyCentred TF 0445 5699 (1923 m by 1423 m), estimated from sources: centre of the station/airfield polygon. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).
Keys to the Past (Northumberland HER), site N20030, Boulmer Airfield (Longhoughton)NGR NU 259 133 (100 m precision); the airfield site that is today RAF Boulmer. The remote radar head at Brizlee Wood is elsewhere. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).
Historic England Research Report 128/1998, RAF Fylingdales, Lockton, North Yorkshire (Roger Thomas)Site NGR SE 8641 9755 (Snod Hill, Lockton High Moor), 10 m precision. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).
Buckinghamshire’s Heritage Portal (Buckinghamshire Council HER), monument record 0950900000 / MBC24925, Strike Command (Bomber/Strike Command, Walters Ash)Centred SU 83031 98289 (1101 m by 1383 m): centre of the RAF High Wycombe site. The underground operations block (MBC24926) is at SU 82903 98594. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).
Royal Air Force: GroupsThe four groups under Air and Space Command
Royal Air Force: No 1 GroupCombat Air, Air Mobility and ISTAR forces and the Air and Space Warfare Centre
Royal Air Force: No 2 GroupSupport force, RAF Regiment and RAuxAF squadrons
Royal Air Force: No 11 GroupCommand and control of air operations; re-formed 1 November 2018
Royal Air Force: No 22 GroupTraining; headquarters at RAF Cranwell
Forces News: RAF Hawk T1 and T2s grounded for investigation following crash on training flight in North Wales24 September 2026; RAF statement that Hawk T1 and T2 flying was paused

Figures verified 2026-09-24. Order of Battle pages are regenerated from a single dataset; if a number here disagrees with a Book of Beasts page, this page is the more recent of the two.

Photographs: Photo: Cpl. Andy Benson / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4. Colin Cooke Photo / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Lightning F-35B. Julian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) · Royal Air Force Poseidon MRA1. Julian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) · Royal Air Force Wedgetail AEW1. Ministry of Defence / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Airseeker RC-135W Rivet Joint. Alan Wilson from Peterborough, Cambs, UK / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Shadow R1. Jerry Gunner / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Atlas C1. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Globemaster C-17A. Airman 1st Class Tiffany Deuel / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Voyager KC2/KC3. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Envoy IV CC1. Paul Crouch, RAF Brize Norton Photographic Section / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Chinook HC6A. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Hawk T2. Ian Gratton from Sutton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire, England / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Hawk T1. Vitaly V. Kuzmin / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Texan T1. Jim van de Burgt from Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · Royal Air Force Prefect T1. Colin Cooke Photo / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Phenom T1. Jim van de Burgt from Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · Royal Air Force Tutor T1. Adrian Pingstone / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Juno HT1. Ian Forshaw / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Jupiter HT1. Ian Forshaw / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Reaper. Sgt Corinne Buxton RAF / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Puma HC1/HC2. Air Specialist Nathan Evans RAF / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Hercules C4. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Griffin HT1/HAR2. MoD / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force 146 CC2/C3. Juergen Lehle / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Royal Air Force Sentry AEW1. SAC Andy Stevens / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Sentinel R1. Cpl Tim Laurence RAF / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force VC10 C1K/K3/K4. Christopher Kern / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Royal Air Force TriStar K1/KC1/C2. Laurent ERRERA from L’Union, France / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Tucano T1. J.Hannan-Briggs / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Tornado GR1/GR4. Corporal Mike Jones / Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) · Royal Air Force Tornado F2/F3. Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in June 2008 and placed in the public domai / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Harrier GR1/GR3. Steve Lynes from Sandhurst, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Harrier GR5/GR7/GR9. Adrian Pingstone / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Jaguar GR1/GR3. The joy of all things / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Phantom FG1/FGR2. kitmasterbloke / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Buccaneer S2. Rept0n1x / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Royal Air Force Lightning. Wiltshireboy / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · Royal Air Force Hunter. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Javelin. Richard Vandervord / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Meteor. Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Vampire. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Venom. Steve Daniels / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Sabre F4. Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Gnat T1. Peter Evans / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Jet Provost. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Vulcan B1/B2. Anidaat / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Victor B1/B2/K2. Cthornborough / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Valiant. Umeyou / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Royal Air Force TSR-2. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Shackleton MR1/MR2/MR3/AEW2. RAF / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Nimrod. Les Chatfield from Brighton, England / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Nimrod R1. Oren Rozen / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Nimrod MRA4. Ronnie Macdonald / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Dominie T1. Rob Schleiffert from Holland / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Sea King HAR3/HAR3A. Robert Lamb / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · RAF Wessex HCC4 of The Queen’s Flight shown. Robert Lamb / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Merlin HC3/HC3A. Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · Royal Air Force Britannia C1/C2. Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in 1964 and released to the public domain. / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Belfast C1. Rob Hodgkins / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Spitfire. ChowellsNoise reduction and shadows lifted by Diliff. / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Royal Air Force Hurricane. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Lancaster. The wub / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Halifax. Royal Air Force official photographer, H. Hensser / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Mosquito. Fotoafdrukken Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Photo Prints, Royal Netherlands Air Force / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Wellington. Unknown authorUnknown author / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Stirling. Forward, Royal Air Force official photographer / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Beaufighter. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Blenheim. Roland Turner from Birmingham, Great Britain / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Royal Air Force Typhoon. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Tempest. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Defiant. Oren Rozen / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Battle. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Whitley. Royal Air Force official photographer / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Hampden. San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Gladiator. San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Mustang III. Stanley Devon / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Tomahawk and Kittyhawk. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Mitchell. Royal Air Force official photographer / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Fortress. Clark N S, Royal Air Force official photographer / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Catalina. Royal Air Force official photographer, Tovey P N F / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Hart. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Fury. San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Bulldog. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Royal Air Force Gauntlet. San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Siskin. UK Government / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Heyford. Unknown photographer / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Avro 504. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sopwith Camel. Robert Lamb / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Sopwith Snipe. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sopwith Pup. Oren Rozen / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sopwith Triplane. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sopwith Dolphin. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter. unknown RAF photographer / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Bristol F.2 Fighter. unknown RAF photographer / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Airco DH.4. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Airco DH.9 and DH.9A. Julian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) · Handley Page O/400. Corporal C. D. Donnelly, Signal Corps, U.S. Army / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Royal Air Force Vimy. Unknown authorUnknown author / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · SPAD S.VII. SDASM / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Королевские военно-воздушные силы

Королевские военно-воздушные силы

The Royal Air Force story: the first independent air force, and the argument about what it is for

1918–1939: Trenchard, air control and the price of independence

1940–1945: the Dowding System, and 55,573 dead in Bomber Command

1948–1969: the V-force, Sandys and the deterrent given away

1965–1991: TSR-2, the Cold War in Germany, and a war fought at fifty feet

1991–2024: the expeditionary decades, and the aircraft that were not replaced

2025–2026: a nuclear role returns, and a command changes its name

The Royal Air Force in numbers

Услуга

Сила

Инфраструктура

How the Royal Air Force is organised

The Air Staff

Air and Space Command

Группа № 1

No. 2 Group

No. 11 Group

No. 22 Group

Joint Helicopter Command

What the Royal Air Force flies today

По заказу

Every type the Royal Air Force has retired

Where the Royal Air Force flies from, at home and abroad

The United Kingdom

Who is stationed where in the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force milestones, 1914 to today

Во всех войнах, в которых участвовали Королевские военно-воздушные силы

Royal Air Force news from Afterburner

Everything people ask about the Royal Air Force

Read the aircraft the Royal Air Force flew

Все факты проверены.

Свежие записи

Контакт

Самолеты

Места

О