Branches of the UK military There are three main branches of the UK armed forces, the British Army, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Marines. Of the 138,120 people serving in the UK’s armed forces in 2024, over half of them were in the British Army, which had ...
The following story, slightly paraphrased, appeared in the Washington Post of May 25, 1984: The Navy has adopted new flight training standards that will require its aviators, as a whole, to have longer arms and shorter legs. These standards will exclude 73% of all college-age women and 13...
completed its first nuclear submarine,Le Redoutable, in 1971 and effectively abandoned diesel-electric construction for its own navy in 1976, though it still buildsconventionalsubmarines for export. Although the Soviets continued to build diesel submarines, the bulk of their new construction shifted to...
摘要:I thoroughly enjoyed the article on the Dam Busters since I moved to the next hangar with VA 196 when the Navy closed out NAS Alameda and moved us to NAS Lemoore after our cruise on the Bonnie Dick in 1961. For some reason, the two-foot-high letters on the end of their hangar...
摘要:BC RCMP congratulates all the members of this year's Alexa's Team, a group of RCMP and Municipal police officers from across British Columbia who make an extraordinary contribution to reducing the number of impaired drivers on the roads of our communities. Alexa's Team is named after fo...
摘要:With the UK MoD close to confirming orders for the first 14 F-35B STOVL Lightning II aircraft planned as part of the joint Royal Air Force and Royal Navy-operated future carrier force, interesting winds of change are blowing across the air power community. Just as it is in the US...