This year’s Exercise Ocean Sky had an added spice to it with the Indian Air Force sending four Sukhoi SU-30MKIs to Gran Canaria, who were participating with Ejército del Aire y del Espacio F/A-18 Hornets and EF2000 Tifons, Hellenic Air Force F-16s, Força Aérea Portuguesa F-16s, Luftwaffe EF2000s and U.S Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles. This is the first time that a non-NATO and allied force have participated in the EX which is designed to improve interoperability and air cont

The key stone exercise Cobra Warrior (CW) second edition of 2025 saw an interesting mix of aircraft arriving in the UK to make this exercise as complex, realistic and challenging as possible. Overview of Cobra Warrior Group Captain Paul Hanson, head of operations and training at the Air and Space Warfare Centre (ASWC) explained the background and importance of Cobra Warrior to the RAF and its participants. ‘Cobra Warrior is One of the most complicated and integrated exercises

History The 750 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) observer school was formed on the 24 th  May 1939 and moved to its home of Royal Navy Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose on the 30 th  November 1953 but this was not going to be permanent at this time. The Squadron moved overseas in 1959 when the squadron relocated to RNAS Hal Far in Malta during October, where De Havilland Sea Venoms flew alongside the Percival Sea Prince T.1s. The squadron returned to the UK in June 1965 when the Sqn arrive

‘The Bundeswehr is entirely at the service of the citizens of Germany. As an army of democracy, it is deeply rooted in society. Yet many...