Six RAF jets have been used to intercept Russian aircraft as they tried to enter British airspace.

Update 6.35pm: One RAF engineer died when a Red Arrows Hawk jet crashed following an incident at RAF Valley in north Wales, a spokesman has said.

A man arrested after a disturbance at an RAF base during which shots were fired by US service personnel has been detained under the Mental Health Act.

Britain’s Royal Airforce have confirmed an image showing a bomb with "Love from Manchester" written on it is not a fake.

The rewards from the hazardous work of helicopter search and rescue missions far outweigh the potentially deadly risks, a retired winchman has said.

Police investigating the attempted knifepoint abduction of an RAF serviceman said there may have been an element of “pre-planning” and they cannot rule out terrorism as a motive.

RAF jets were scrambled more than 50 times in six years to intercept Russian military aircraft.

Two British citizens who were fighting for so-called Islamic State (IS) were killed in an RAF drone strike in Syria which was carried out without parliamentary approval, prime minister David Cameron has said.

Military authorities are trying to collect a pair of missiles lying on the runway of Britain’s Akrotiri air base in Cyprus after they detached from a landing Tornado.