To celebrate 60 years of their famous displays, the Red Arrows have launched their diamond anniversary campaign. Each of their aircraft will display new commemorative artwork. As always, a great set of imagery by our personnel based on the team with more to come this season.

The RAF Cosford field gun team prepare for a timed run at the The Birmingham International Tattoo🇬🇧. Each member of the team has a very specific role to fulfil during the run to ensure the fastest possible time. A great image by Cpl Edwards from our Cosford section.

Some incredible imagery from our photographer currently deployed in support of HMS Prince of Wales as part of exercise Steadfast Defender, the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War. Royal Air Force

Photo-chase with the Folland Gnat and Red Arrows Hawk in the skies over Lincolnshire. Royal Air Force Jon Bond @raf_red4 Graeme Muscat - Red10 RAF Photographer #RAF #Gnat #hawkt1a #60thanniversary #photooftheday #aviationphotography #yellowjack #avgeeks

How's this for a day in the office for Cpl Dye flying as Circus 10! To mark the 60th display season for the Red Arrows, the team was joined in the skies above Lincolnshire by a Folland Gnat painted in the distinctive colours of the 'Yellowjacks', a predecessor to the Reds.

All systems go at the Red Arrows as they prepare for this exciting 'Diamond Season'. The team will shortly head overseas to refinine their 2024 display. This is crucial preparation ready to undertake their annual assessment know as a Public Display Authority (PDA).

Checking in with the RAF Typhoon Display Team today and new display pilot Flight Lieutenant David “Turbo” Turnbull. Turbo continues to practice in the skies above RAF Coningsby honing in the display manoeuvres and sequence for the season. Their 2024 display dates have now been released!

Carrying on our display team week, we now look to the RAF Falcons who have just wrapped up ex Falcon Stack 2024 in California. The team now return to the UK to continue training their display on the smaller drop zones with their display season schedule to be announced soon.

Something pretty exciting coming this week! AS1 Smither is in Norway working alongside the Royal Marines and we’re going to be showcasing his work for the entire week. We will let him introduce it himself before we kick start the week tomorrow.

A team of Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron Commandos in the High North of Norway moving across their training area by snowmobile. Images shot whilst AS1 Smither filmed for a video coming tomorrow.

Yesterday you saw Dan's photos of the Royal Marines Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron Commandos and we mentioned they were taken whilst filming for a video project. Well today we bring you the results of that video project and what a piece of work this is!

RAF Armourers (Weapon Technician) have the huge responsibility of maintaining and managing all the weapons and explosives used within the RAF. They are a highly skilled bunch who play a crucial role in ensuring missions can be carried out successfully.

RAF Coningsby photographers caught some great images of a #Chinook visiting from RAF Odiham yesterday. Find out more about a career as a RAF Photographer here: recruitment.raf.mod.uk/roles/roles-fi…

NATO celebrates the 75th anniversary today since its formation on 4th April 1949. To celebrate this anniversary, todays fantastic images come from AS1 Barnard of the Photo ACSSU, He has been very fortunate to document many joint training activities between NATO members.

The Red Arrows have finished phase one of Exercise Springhawk in Croatia and celebrated with a flypast in the skies above Zadar with their Croatian counterparts Krila Oluje (Wings of Storm. The team have now moved to Greece for phase two of their pre-season training.

Exercise AUXILIUM FORT is underway at RAF Honington and has seen force elements from across the RAF gather together at to begin training and testing their technical skills.

On May 31, 2024, Royal Air Force crews from 84 Squadron based out of RAF Akrotiri assisted the Cypriot Government in controlling a large wildfire. The fire burned over a large area of wild vegetation and was close to residential houses for several hours.

We hope all of you that attended the RAF Cosford Air Show yesterday had a fantastic time. You may have seen our hard working RAF Cosford team in amongst the crowd capturing some of the many activities available and personnel that were flying or working at the show.

If you made it down to the front of the crowd line at the RAF Cosford Air Show you may have spotted Sgt Matthews working out on the display line. Sgt Matthews is one of our training instructors and spent the day capturing everything that was happening in the skies

Congratulations to the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Photographers who graduated from the Defence School of Photography at RAF Cosford on 28 June. We wish them all every success in their military careers.