The Fighter Interception Development Unit RAF was a special interceptor aircraft unit of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. It was...

RAF Drem in Scotland in April 1942 and commanded No. 611 Squadron RAF, a Spitfire unit. He was later leader of No. 605 Squadron RAF, a night fighter unit...

(1944-46) Fighter Interception Development Squadron (Ford 1944-50) became Radar Interception Development Squadron Fighter Leaders School (1944-?) Fighter Support...

August 1945, 748 OTU moved out and 790 Fighter Direction Training Unit moved in, beginning live interception flights for the new R.N. Air Direction School...

Conversion Unit (OCU). The first operational RAF Typhoon squadron to be formed was No. 3 (Fighter) Squadron on 31 March 2006, when it moved to RAF Coningsby...

fighters with their own radar meant they were withdrawn from service in early 1943. The then-state-of-the-art metre-wavelength aircraft interception (AI)...

Squadron RAF No. 422 (Fighter Interception) Flight RAF (1940) became No. 96 Squadron RAF No. 430 (Army Co-operation) Flight RAF (1940–41) became No. 1430...

the RAF were well advanced with plans to build a radar – then called 'RDF' in Britain – equipped night-fighter fleet. The Aircraft Interception Mk. II...

Night Fighter Interception Unit, from RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), on 1 December. This unit collaborated with the RAF Fighter Interception Unit at...

In March 1943 RAF Boulmer was reopened as a satellite airfield to house the advanced flights of No. 57 Operational Training Unit RAF (a Supermarine Spitfire...

successfully by the RAF and as a tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter-bomber (Mustang Mk I). In mid 1942, a development project known as the...

role during the Battle of Britain, when fighters from several of its units, including No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, engaged enemy aircraft as part...

fighters based there in the latter stages of the Cold War and into the early 21st century. Since 2006, it has become the home of the deployable RAF communications...

Lightning squadron to be based at RAF Marham when it reformed on 1 August 2019 as the F-35 operational conversion unit (OCU). Opened in August 1916 close...

conversion unit for the Poseidon and Wedgetail. There are a number of non-flying units at RAF Lossiemouth including No. 5 Force Protection Wing and an RAF Mountain...

basing, RAF Lakenheath in the UK was chosen as the first installation to station two F-35A squadrons, with 48 aircraft adding to the 48th Fighter Wing's...

Royal Air Force Wattisham or more simply RAF Wattisham (ICAO: EGUW) was, between 1939 and 1993, the name of a Royal Air Force station located in East...

which detected night fighter radar and radio emissions and allowed the RAF fighters to home in onto the Axis aircraft and either shoot them down or disrupt...

Within 5 miles the fighters would normally be able to spot their targets visually and complete the interception on their own. Interception rates over 80%...

the Second World War, only three RAF squadrons were equipped with the aircraft and, despite its success as a fighter and ground attack aircraft, it was...

604 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force noted for its pioneering role the development of radar-controlled night-fighter operations. The...

developed throughout the war. It became the home of both fighter and gunnery research and development units working with new equipment and techniques. In addition...

from a naval force operating under the protection of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters. The port was to be captured and held for a short period, to test the...

Air Force (RAF) in 1986. The Tornado F2, which was only produced in small numbers, lacked key features such as radar, due to development issues. Accordingly...

remainder of the unit returned north to RAF Prestwick on 25 July due to the ineffectiveness of the Defiant against single-seat fighters. No. 29 Squadron...

Command. Other units include the RAF Aerial Erector School, No. 54 Signals Unit and No. 591 Signals Unit. Formerly an RAF training and fighter airfield, it...

night fighter aircraft with the other three as the target aircraft. December saw the unit move to RAF Ford to join the RAF Fighter Interception Unit. 739...

communications intercept and missile warning site. It has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. RAF Menwith Hill is...

Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...

World War on 4 November 1940 under No. 5 Group, part of RAF Bomber Command. The first flying unit, No. 106 Squadron with the Handley Page Hampden medium...