The giant ‘Rivet Joint’ was filmed being told to leave the Black Sea near Ukraine or it and two escorting RAF Typhoon fighter jets would be ‘destroyed’ by Vladimir Putin’s air arm.
The UK's Royal Air Force operates some aircraft with impressive ranges as it is designed to operate around the world.
The RAF is providing RC-135 Rivet Joint and P-8 Poseidon MRA1 aircraft from the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Force to assist NATO operation Baltic Sentry.
The replacement for the Nimrod R1 will be the Rivet Joint aircraft, due into service with the RAF in 2014. For now, RAF crews from 51 Squadron are already co-manning US Rivet Joint aircraft in ...
"On September 29, an unarmed RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint, a civilian-style aircraft, on routine patrol over the Black Sea was interacted with by two Russian armed Su-27 fighter aircraft. It is not ...