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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

Royal Air Force

Police officers stand guard at the gates of the Royal Air Force Akrotiri base, a British overseas territory near the Cypriot coastal city of Limassol on January 14, 2024. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)
June 21, 2025, 4:16 pm
Alleged member of Iran’s IRGC arrested in Cyprus over plot to attack military bases
Report says Azerbaijani national detained after security services received intel from ‘cooperating foreign service’; suspect seen taking photos at British, Cypriot bases on island
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Royal Air Force F-35 lands at the Farnborough International Air Show in Farnborough, England, on July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
June 20, 2025, 1:47 pm
Anti-Israel activists damage, spray red paint on planes at UK military base
Palestine Action group says action done to protest complicity in Gaza ‘genocide’; British defense ministry condemns vandalism
By Reuters and ToI Staff
This picture taken on April 14 ,2024, shows intercepted missiles fired from Iran toward Israel, as seen over northern Israel. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
April 14, 2024, 8:50 am
US, UK and Jordan intercept many of the Iranian drones headed to Israel
Israeli official says American forces stopped over 100 aircraft outside the country; Jordanian jets shot down dozens of drones in kingdom’s airspace; France also assists defense
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Three Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers in 1942. (Wikipedia/Royal Air Force official photographer/Public Domain)
October 12, 2020, 8:34 am
Polish divers face delicate mission to defuse British WWII ‘earthquake bomb’
Most nearby residents evacuated for 5-day operation that will attempt to slowly burn 19-foot bomb’s explosive charge without detonating, but some refuse to go due to pandemic
By Stanislaw Waszak
RAF Spitfires based at the Biggin Hill airbase in southern England. (Public domain)
May 8, 2020, 11:42 am
Unsung Jewish heroes who helped UK to victory in Battle of Britain finally heard
As the battle’s 80th anniversary approaches, London’s Royal Air Force museum seeks to capture the stories of Jews who risked their lives to help repel the massive Nazi invasion
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets escort a transport plane, above eastern Romania, Friday, April 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
December 2, 2019, 1:50 am
Pilot of plane from Israel in UK scare describes ‘heart attack’ as jets neared
Captain details how his flight briefly lost radio contact over Britain and his surprise to see two RAF Typhoons outside his window; sonic boom caused panic in London
By ToI Staff
Illustrative - A British Royal Air Force Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft. (Courtesy Royal Air Force)
December 1, 2019, 3:34 pm
Flight from Tel Aviv causes London panic as scrambled jets set off sonic boom
RAF planes sent to check US-bound retired El Al aircraft after it briefly goes unresponsive over British airspace; bang wakes many residents of capital at 4 a.m.
By ToI Staff
Israeli, German, Italian and British fighter jets fly together as part of the Royal Air Force's Cobra Warrior exercise in the United Kingdom in September 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 20, 2019, 8:38 am
In first, Israeli planes take part in British aerial exercise Cobra Warrior
IAF fighter jets, cargo planes join UK, German, Italian and US aircraft in combat simulations over eastern England
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Royal Air Force Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft that were scrambled to intercept a civilian aircraft over England June 29, 2019. (Courtesy - Royal Air Force)
June 27, 2019, 6:32 pm
UK scrambles fighter jets after Air India ‘bomb threat’
Flight from Mumbai to Newark escorted to London’s Stansted Airport where all 327 passengers were evacuated after landing; police investigating
By AFP
Israeli fighter jets performing an aerial show at a graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/ Flash90/ File)
January 17, 2019, 12:55 pm
In first, IAF to fly in British air exercise Cobra Warrior
Israeli pilots to fly alongside Royal Air Force counterparts in the aerial drill in September, as cooperation between the two militaries becomes more public
By Judah Ari Gross
Israel's three newest F-35 stealth fighter jets on their way to Israel in April 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 5, 2018, 11:39 pm
UK F-35 secrets said leaked after Tinder account hacked
Royal Air Force says ‘fortunately little information disclosed’ to unnamed third party seeking info on stealth jets; Israel has at least a dozen of them
By ToI Staff
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson leaves his home in London on July 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS)
July 18, 2016, 1:02 am
British FM makes emergency landing en route to Brussels
Technical fault forces plane to land in Luton as Boris Johnson’s up and down week continues
By AFP
An Israeli Air Force "Ethan" drone (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)
February 17, 2016, 5:31 pm
US, UK didn’t crack Israeli drone encryption, officials say
Sources tell Channel 2 some of the released info was already out in the open, deny coded systems were breached
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford salute during an honor guard ceremony at the IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
January 29, 2016, 12:34 pm
Israel ‘disappointed, not surprised’ by massive US, UK spying exposé
British and American intelligence cracked encryption to access air force video for years, keeping tabs on air strikes, watching for possible Iran hit
By ToI Staff
An Israeli 'Ethan' drone, in the service of the Israeli Air Force (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
January 29, 2016, 10:21 am
In huge Israeli intel breach, US, UK have spied on air force for 18 years
By hacking encrypted transmissions of Israeli planes and drones, NSA and GCHQ intelligence services ‘monitor IDF operations in Gaza, watch for potential strike on Iran’
By ToI Staff
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