The Royal Air Force is for the first time using the “spoils of war” captured from Argentina in the 1982 Falklands Conflict to provide aircraft and parts in front-line squadrons. A senior RAF ...
Falklands’ veterans ... 63 Squadron RAF Regiment redeployed from there to defend the new air base established at RAF Stanley, which was to be their home - and for those of the other RAF Germany ...
A Cold War military jet standing at the entrance to an RAF base is to be scrapped after ... operation to bomb Port Stanley Airport during the Falklands War. The last Victor retired in October ...
The RAF's only bomb disposal squadron is to be ... and by 1945 it had made safe 176,000 weapons. It took part in the Falklands War in 1982, clearing the runway at Stanley, and was one of the ...
And since the 1982 Falklands War, troops have remained on guard. Around 1,000 RAF, Army and Navy personnel are on the islands. They include the Gurkhas, four RAF Typhoon jets and patrol vessel HMS ...