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Two of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) most advanced aircraft —an RC-135 Rivet Joint and a P-8A Poseidon— carried out a 12-hour surveillance mission along the Russian border on October 9, as part of a ...

09:45, Sun, Oct 12, 2025 Updated: 09:53, Sun, Oct 12, 2025 RAF surveillance planes patrolled NATO’s border with Russia, just days after a series of incursions into Western airspace, sending what ...

Two of the Royal Air Force’s most advanced surveillance planes have completed a 12-hour mission patrolling the Russian border. An RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic intelligence surveillance aircraft ...

The UK's Royal Air Force surveillance aircraft flew a 12-hour mission along the Russian border, including over Estonia, on Thursday to monitor NATO's eastern border. The operation took place after ...

The operation is aimed at deterring Kremlin aggression. Reconnaissance planes of the British Royal Air Force made a twelve-hour overflight along the Russian border to monitor NATO's eastern borders.

This system has been used to precisely target Russian equipment and forces operating on the frontlines of Ukraine. It has been an active, albeit indirect, participant in the war on behalf of Ukraine.