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RAF Boulmer
RAF Boulmer is a Royal Air Force station near Alnwick, Northumberland, England, that controls UK airspace surveillance and provides tactical control of combat and support aircraft.
RAF Coningsby
RAF Coningsby, or Royal Air Force Coningsby, is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, home to Typhoon combat aircraft and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
RAF Cosford
RAF Cosford, also known as DCAE Cosford, is a Royal Air Force technical training station in Shropshire, opened 15 July 1938, home to the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering, RAF Museum Midlands, and the Cosford Airshow.
RAF Cranwell
RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, and the RAF's principal center for initial officer training, described as the world's first air academy.
RAF Doncaster
RAF Doncaster, also known as Doncaster Aerodrome, was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, operating from 1916 to 1919.
RAF Fairford
RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, opened in 1944 and the US Air Force's only European forward operating location for heavy strategic bombers.
RAF Finningley
RAF Finningley was a Royal Air Force station near Doncaster, opened in 1936 and used as a bomber training base, V-bomber nuclear strike station, and flying training center.
RAF Fylingdales
RAF Fylingdales, or Royal Air Force Fylingdales, is an RAF station on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire that has provided continuous ballistic missile early warning since 1963.
RAF Greenham Common
RAF Greenham Common was a Royal Air Force and US Air Force airbase in Berkshire, England, used from 1941 to 1992 and known for Cold War cruise missiles and a women's peace camp.
RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe, at Walters Ash, Buckinghamshire, is the RAF station hosting HQ Air Command (Air & Space Command from 2026) and UK Space Command; formerly the disguised wartime HQ of Bomber Command, codename Southdown.
RAF Honington
RAF Honington, also known as Royal Air Force Honington, is an RAF station in Suffolk, England, opened in 1937 and home of the RAF Regiment since 1994.
RAF Iraq Command
RAF Iraq Command, also known as British Forces in Iraq, controlled all British forces in Mandatory Iraq from 1922 under an air policing scheme after the 1920 revolt.
RAF Lakenheath
RAF Lakenheath is a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England, operated by the United States Air Force and home to the 48th Fighter Wing since 1948.
RAF Menwith Hill
RAF Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, providing communications and intelligence support to the United Kingdom and the United States.
RAF Mount Batten
RAF Mount Batten, formerly RAF Cattewater, was a Royal Air Force flying boat station at Plymouth, Devon, from 1917 to 1992, best known as the wartime base of No. 10 Squadron RAAF.
RAF Mount Pleasant
RAF Mount Pleasant, also called the Mount Pleasant Complex, is a Royal Air Force base in the Falkland Islands opened in 1985 after the Falklands War.
RAF Northolt
RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in west London, opened in 1915 and used by both military and civilian aircraft for government and VIP flights.
RAF officer ranks
The RAF officer ranks are the Royal Air Force's eleven commissioned ranks, from Pilot Officer up to Marshal of the Royal Air Force, introduced on 4 August 1919.
RAF Spadeadam
RAF Spadeadam is a Royal Air Force station in Cumbria, England, hosting Europe's only Electronic Warfare Tactics facility where UK and NATO aircrews train against simulated threats.
RAF Tangmere
RAF Tangmere, also called Royal Air Force Station Tangmere, was a fighter station in West Sussex and an 11 Group sector station during the Battle of Britain.
RAF Valley
RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on Anglesey, Wales, home of No 4 Flying Training School, which trains the UK's fast jet pilots.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, founded in Israel in 1948, is a state-owned arms company best known for the Iron Dome missile defense system and Trophy active protection.
Rafale deal controversy
The Rafale deal controversy, called the Rafale scam by critics, is a dispute in India over its 2016 purchase of 36 Dassault Rafale jets for €7.87 billion.
Raffaele Mezzenga
Raffaele Mezzenga is a materials scientist and full professor at ETH Zurich who turns food proteins into amyloid fibrils for water purification and alcohol-detoxifying hydrogels.
Raffaello D'Andrea
Raffaello D'Andrea is an engineer, artist, and entrepreneur who co-founded Kiva Systems, sold to Amazon for $775 million, and founded the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich.
Raffles Hotel
Raffles Hotel is a luxury hotel in Singapore, opened in 1887 by the Armenian Sarkies brothers and known as the birthplace of the Singapore Sling.
Rafic Helou
Rafic Helou, also published as Rafic G. El-Helou, is an American structural engineer at the Federal Highway Administration known for ultra-high performance concrete bridge design.
Rag (typography)
In typography, the rag, also called ragged right or rag right, is the uneven edge of unjustified text and the craft of shaping it well.
Rag paper
Rag paper is a strong, long-lasting paper made from cotton and linen fibers instead of wood pulp, used for banknotes, certificates, archival records, and fine-art sheets.
RAG poisoning
RAG poisoning, also called knowledge-base poisoning, is an attack in which malicious text is injected into a RAG system's knowledge base to steer its answers.