Waddington is a busy air base just outside Lincoln in eastern England. It is home to the Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) base, which uses RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft – a derivative of the Boeing 707 – amongst others. The Waddington Aircraft Viewing Area...
Meanwhile, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed that conversion work on the third and final 'Rivet Joint' for the Royal Air Force (RAF) will begin at the start of next year after the aircraft has supported a flight test programme designed to yield performance data for both the ...
"We are dealing with a president and indeed a Russian forces who, as we've seen from the Rivet Joint incident, are not beyond making the wrong calculation or indeed deciding that the rules don't apply to them," Wallace said Thursday, referring to the Russian fighter jet that accidentally ...
(intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) arena or the three planned RC-135W 'Rivet Joint' signals intelligence-gathering aircraft that will eventually play the most persistent and important role in terms of the wider combat-ISTAR platform capability role there is no doubting that the ISTAR/...