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Royal Navy shapeshifters 12th March 2021 Feature With new aircraft and new missions, there are some exciting times ahead for the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm’s Commando Helicopter Force, as Ian Harding recently found out Unique formation of five 845 NAS Commando Merlin HC4 and three 847 NAS Wildcat BRH, pictured during a recent exercise  Images by Ian Harding unless stated Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) was formed two years before Joint Helicopter Command in 1997 to bring the helicopte...

New National Component Commander takes charge of Chinook detachment in Mali RAF Press Release | March 12, 2021 Estimated reading time 4 minutes, 25 seconds. A new British National Component Commander has taken command of the RAF Chinook detachment serving in Mali in support of the French Counter Insurgency Operation. Commander Colin Kiernan of the Royal Navy has taken over from Lieutenant Colonel Steve Brining of the Army Air Corps during a handover ceremony at Gao Airbase in Mali, West Af...

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Ice cold killers: British commandos undergo extreme survival training in Norwegian woodland where temperatures can drop to -30C Pilots and aircrew were put through their paces during the extreme survival training at a Norwegian air base  Aviators take part in range of courses as part of Exercise Clockwork, including dunking into freezing water  The course, which has been running for 52 years, aims at equipping troops with essential survival skills

Chopper comes a cropper: Chinook helicopter gets bogged down in a muddy field after mechanical failure forced it to make emergency landing 20 miles from its base at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire The 40-year-old RAF Chinook was one of the first to join the RAFs fleet in 1981 and flew in the first Gulf War The aircraft developed a technical problem returning to RAF Benson on Tuesday and was forced to land The 11-tonne chopper started sinking in the mud after being forced to perform an emergency landi...

Advertisement A striking image showing ground crews battling the elements in front of a snow-covered Voyager aircraft is one of four winners in this years RAF photographic competition. Sgt Andy Holmess photo, titled Ground Zero, was taken at RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands and was selected as the winner of the Operations and Exercises category. The sergeant, who is stationed at RAF Benson in south Oxfordshire, also won the Current RAF Equipment category with the image titled Astra wh...