Tag: Quick Reaction Alert

Following bomb threat two Italian Typhoon jets perform supersonic scramble to escort Lebanese Airbus 320

Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoon in QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) were scrambled to…

Nice air-to-air image of Russian Tu-95 Bear bomber intercepted off UK by RAF Typhoon

The RAF has released some cool images of the long-range Russian Tu-95…

The crazy story of the Nigerian Air Force C-130H Hercules’s flight to Cambridge in 2011

The Nigerian C-130H-30 that had arrived at Cambridge in August 2011, was…

French fighter jet and helicopter launched to intercept a paraglider approaching a nuclear plant

On May 2, a Greenpeace activist flying a paraglider, entered the forbidden…

Typhoons sonic boom during terrorist hijack alarm causes chaos in UK

At 18.10LT on Thursday Apr. 12 emergency agency telephone switch boards started…