Royal Air Force News Friday, December 26, 2025 P10
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Lossie trip marks Norwegian pact Simon Mander
Staff Reporter
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establishes a combined naval fleet to track Russian submarines across the North Atlantic. Sir Keir also delivered a Christmas message to RAF personnel serving over the festive period in the UK and abroad.
Alert demonstration of crews preparing an emergency launch of a Typhoon. The Lunna House agreement signed earlier this month is underpinned by a £10bn UKNorway warship deal and
CADETS GOT a taste of life behind the lens at one of Leeming’s busiest exercises of the year. Rookie photographers from 242 Cramlington Sqn were offered time in the studio and on the airfield with Service professionals. Cadets Emily Hornsby, Joe Martin and Beatrice
Allen were welcomed by AS1s Jess Eglon and Rich Dilworth during Exercise Yorksnite – a four-week detachment to North Yorkshire by Swiss F-18 jets. After a quick tour of SLR camera lens options they were shown how to capture, upload and edit imagery, and took in spectacular takeoff views of the F-18s from Air Traffic Control.
PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer and Norwegian Premier Jonas Gahar got a bird’s eye view of Britain’s fast jet frontline as they marked a major arms deal at Lossiemouth. The agreement is aimed at countering the threat to critical undersea cables and comes after defence chiefs accused the crew of the Russian spy ship Yantar of targeting a Lossiemouth P-8 Poseidon crew with high powered lasers off the Scottish coast. The UK and Norway have agreed closer defence cooperation, with Norwegian personnel to be trained and to operate on RAF Poseidons. The two leaders also watched a Quick Reaction
MARITIME SECURITY: PM Starmer and Norwegian Premier Gahar chat to crews at Lossiemouth. PHOTOS: SIMON DAWSON
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