Defence Equipment and Support has placed a £176M order for further batch of Lightweight Multi Role Missiles with Thales UK in Belfast. They will equip Wildcat helicopters (known as the Martlet missile in RN service) and provide short-range air defence for the Army. Hundreds of LMMs have already been gifted to Ukraine where they have been successfully used to destroy Russian targets.

 

A Royal Army Air Corps Apache helicopter being lifted from the hangar to the deck onboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, 19 July 2011.

 

F/A-18F alondside a German A-300M Atlas.

 

U-966 Sunk in Bay of Biscay PB4Y-1 patrol bombers from VB-103, VB-105, and VB-110, along with British aircraft, sink the German submarine U-966 in the Bay of Biscay off northwest Spain. Spanish fishing trawlers rescue the survivors.

 

Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk.

 

British Aerospace Harrier GR.7

 

A USAF CV-22 operating from HMS Queen Elizabeth during CSG23.

 

Fully booted and spurred, Eurofighter Typhoon.

 

A Joint Force Harrier jet is pictured high over RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus shortly before the iconic aircraft was decommissioned.

 

Polish Heritage Flight Spitfire BM597 flying by Blackpool tower.

 

British Army ‘Wildcat’ reconnaissance helicopters arriving at Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania earlier this month.

 

New Apahe attack helicopter.

The British Army’s new attack helicopter, the Apache AH-64E, has been brought into frontline service.

Fifty Apache AH-64E Version 6 aircraft (rebuilt from the British Army’s pre-existing Apache AH1 fleet) have been purchased from the United States with 14 of them having been delivered to the British Army so far.

NATO jets scrambled 370 times in 2021

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/nato-jets-scrambled-370-times-in-2021/ 

Two U.S. Marine F-35B Lightning IIs and two U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagles fly above the U.K. aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth during a training mission over the western Pacific Ocean.