RAF fighter jets have been spotted circling above Scotland after a NATO alert was issued, with flight radars tracking their ...

A Russian pilot attempted to shoot down an RAF surveillance plane last year, sources have told the BBC. Moscow said at the time that a missile was released as a result of a "technical malfunction".

RAF fighter jets have urgently been being deployed to help patrol Polish airspace on Nato's eastern flank amid growing tensions with Russia over its war in Ukraine and in a bid to counter ...

HMS Somerset and her Merlin helicopter from 814 Naval Air Squadron then began shadowing the Russian task group's escort, Severomorsk, south of Portsmouth and the RAF deployed a P8 Poseidon ...