RAF OPS AND EXERCISES

Question 1

What operations are the RAF currently deployed on?

Answer 1

Operation Newcombe, Operation Shader, Operation Toral, Short Term training team in Nigeria, South Sudan - Setting up Hospital

Question 2

Operation Shader?

Answer 2

2014 and ongoing. Continue to combat Daesh in Iraq and eastern Syria as part of an international coalition against terrorist movement.

Question 3

Operation Toral?

Answer 3

Supporting the ongoing Nato Mission in Afghanistan.

Question 4

Nato Air Policing mission?

Answer 4

Collective task and defensive mission to react to possible airspace violations 24/7 365.

Question 5

Operation Biloski?

Answer 5

Apr - Aug 2021. Typhoons scrambled to respond to russian jets travelling towards Romanian airspace. Part of Nato’s enhanced air policing mission.

Question 6

Operation Azotize?

Answer 6

May - Aug 2020. Providing QRA to skies of Lithuania during a routine NATO air policing mission.

Question 7

Operation Newcombe?

Answer 7

2018 ongoing. Ongoing mission to support the french counter terrorism mission in Mali, the Sahal region. Based at Gao with 3 ch47 and 100 personnel.

Question 8

Short term training team in Nigeria?

Answer 8

RAF Regiment and RAF Police providing training to the nigerian air force on airfield defence and security.

Question 9

Exercise Arctic Challenge?

Answer 9

May - June 2019. Took place in Sweden. Training alongside 8 other nations in europes largest air power exercise with 140 aircraft and 4000 troops.

Question 10

Exercise Lightning Dawn?

Answer 10

May 2019 in Cyprus - first overseas exercise for the new f35 lightning aircraft for RAF and Navy to gain vital experience in maintaining and flying the aircraft in unfamiliar territory.

Question 11

Exercise Point Blank?

Answer 11

May 2020- Joint US and UK exercise in the north sea to to share tactics and precedures .