The RAF's famous "Dambusters" squadron is to be disbanded next year and reformed in 2016 to fly the new F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter. Created during World War II, 617 Squadron carried ...

The unit’s 175 personnel will transfer to other Tornado squadrons, retrain on the Typhoon or move to another part of the RAF. When 617 squadron reform, they will be stationed at RAF Marham in ...

As the Prince of Wales CSG prepares to depart the Mediterranean and head through the Red Sea, the RAF has deployed additional ...

Four F-35Bs of 617 Squadron have deployed to Iceland to begin ... F-35B ZM148/014 departing RAF Marham for the deployment to Iceland. Note two ASRAAM fitted to external hardpoints, and radar ...

He was a stalwart campaigner for the RAF Benevolent Fund, served on the committee of the 617 Squadron Association, and latterly as its president, did a great deal to champion the commemoration of ...

Johnson was a bomb aimer with RAF 617 Squadron and took part in the "Dambusters" raid targeting heavily fortified German dams with specially developed "bouncing bombs". Two of the three dams ...

the Royal Navy stated that 18 F-35B aircraft from 809 Naval Air Squadron and 617 Squadron RAF joined HMS Prince of Wales following a transit from RAF Marham in Norfolk, adding that a “further ...

Johnson and his RAF comrades were immortalised in the eponymous ... open image in gallery Wing Commander Guy Gibson and 617 Squadron crew, who were told mere weeks before the mission that it ...

These stealth fighters are critical to the UK Lightning Force, which includes RAF’s 617 Squadron “The Dambusters” and 809 Naval Air Squadron “The Immortals.” -The F-35B, with its short ...

open image in gallery The Mohne Dam in North Rhine-Westphalia after being bombed by 617 Squadron of the RAF during Operation Chastise (Keystone/Getty) He adds: “Munitions production in the Rhur ...

School students were treated to a remarkable sight last week as the UK’s last flying Lancaster bomber roared overhead.

The RAF's "Dambuster" squadron, which has been based at Lossiemouth in Moray, has been disbanded as its Tornado aircraft are withdrawn from service. The famous 617 Squadron will be reformed in ...