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Pictured is a Royal Air Force Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) Typhoon FGR4 of 11 (AC) Squadron loaded with the latest Meteor Missile taking off from RAF Lossiemouth. (Crown Copyright)

RAF Typhoon & Lightning jets take part in major missile training

22/10/2022 Written by: Nick Harding
2 minute read

Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon and F-35B Lightning II aircraft have taken part in a major missile training excercise over the last 10 days which saw them fire a total of 53 Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missiles (ASRAAM) at target drones. The live firing training took place over [read more]

RAF Typhoons intercept Russian aircraft over North Sea

29/03/2021 Written by: Anttoni James Numminen
2 minute read

RAF Typhoons intercepted two Russian aircraft over the North Sea on the morning of 29 March, according to the Royal Air Force. The Russian aircraft, Tu-142 ‘Bears’, were first intercepted by the Norwegian Air Force but the NATO partners handed over the mission as the Russian maritime reconnaissance aircraft approached [read more]

‘Sonic Boom’ heard as RAF QRA Typhoons intercept private jet

12/01/2021 Written by: Nick Harding
< 1 minute read

Members of the public in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and London have reported hearing a sonic boom as RAF Typhoon aircraft raced to intercept a private jet over London. Two Eurofighter Typhon aircraft launched from RAF Coningsby earlier today under the UK’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) defence system in order to [read more]

RAF Typhoons launched to intercept Ryanair flight

30/08/2020 Written by: UK Aviation News
< 1 minute read

Two Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons were launched on Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) earlier this evening to intercept Ryanair flight FR7364. The two aircraft took off from RAF Conningsby along with an RAF Voyager tanker from RAF Brize Norton. The tasking was to a Laudamotion Airbus A320 (OE-LMB), which was [read more]

RAF quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth scrambled to monitor two Russian Blackjacks while they were in the UK area of interest. (Image: Crown Copyright 2020)

Russians probe UK air defences for 3rd time in 6 days

12/03/2020 Written by: Nick Harding
2 minute read

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has launched Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) to intercept Russian military aircraft for 3rd time in six days. The previous two encounters this week all involved Russian Tu-142 Bear Aircraft but today’s encounter was a pair of Tu-160 Blackjacks. The Tu-160 Blackjack is Russias long-range supersonic [read more]

RAF says Russian Bombers posed threat to civilian airliners

08/03/2020 Written by: UK Aviation News
2 minute read

RAF Lossiemouth has released more information about yesterdays afternoons interception of two Russian TU-142 Bear along the west coast of the UK. The RAF Launched Quick Reaction Alert aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth to intercept the aircraft which flew around the North of Scotland before heading down the West Coast of [read more]

RAF Eurofighter Typhoon (Image: Aviation Media Agency)

RAF Scrambles QRA Jets as Russian Bomber spotted off UK coast

26/02/2020 Written by: Nick Harding
2 minute read

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has scrambled Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth to intercept a Russian TU95 Bear Bomber which flew close to UK airspace earlier today. The QRA Eurofighter Typhoons are constantly on alert to launch to intercept aircraft that threaten UK airspace and as normal, [read more]