No. 216 Squadron RAF
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Number 216 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force based at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, since reforming on 1 April 2020 and is tasked with testing future drone swarm technology. It had previou
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No. 216 Squadron leaving RAF Fayid (Egypt) for the UK in 1955
No. 216 Squadron TriStar K.1 ZD949 departing from Kemble Airfield, June 2005
StormShroud, an RAF drone based on the Tekever AR3 platform, carrying Leonardo UK's BriteStorm jammer (2025)
Blackburn Buccaneer
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The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy. Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, it was later officially
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…The squadron reformed at RAF Honington on 1 July 1979 as a maritime strike squadron assigned to Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) with twelve Blackburn Buccaneer S.2 aircraft transferred from the Fleet Air Arm's 809 Naval Air Squadron. These aircraft had been embarked on HMS Ark Royal until flying off for the…
A Buccaneer taking off from Faro, Portugal
Buccaneer S.1 at the 1962 Farnborough Airshow; the anti-flash white colour scheme is for the nuclear strike role
A Buccaneer S.2 launches from HMS Eagle; the S.2 featured more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines that allowed it to launch at its maximum take-off weight
Buccaneer S.2 with wings folding, a space-saving feature typically employed by carrier aircraft