Groups & Bases

Question 1

2 Group

Answer 1

• Strategic and tactical air transport and maintaining airforce.

1. RAF Brize Norton (Oxfordshire)
   
   • Air transport and air to air refuelling hub
   • 8 SQN’s
   • Hercules, Globemaster, Voyager, Atlas.
2. RAF Northolt in west London
   
   • Is used by both military and civilian aircraft and is home to units from all three Armed Services and the Ministry of
     Defence

Question 2

11 Group

Answer 2

• Adapt and be able to conduct operations across multiple environments or domains, particularly Air, Space and Cyber.

1. RAF Spadeadam, (Cumbria)- Is the only Electronic
   
   • Warfare Tactics facility in Europe where aircrews can practise manoeuvres and tactics against a variety of threats and targets that they face in contemporary warfare
2. RAF Flyingdales (North Yorkshire)
   
   • Uninterrupted ballistic missile early warning and space surveillance service to the UK and US.

Question 3

22 Group

Answer 3

• Recruitment, training and management activities.

1. RAF HALTON (Buckinghamshire)
   
   • mainly used for airmen basic training
2. RAF Shawbury (Shropshire)
   
   • The Defence Helicopter Flying School trains aircrew for the Royal Navy, British Army and the Royal Air Force.
3. RAF College Cranwell (Lincoln)
   
   • RAF College for IOT and OACSC
   • No.3 flying school for Tri service pilots
   • 45 sqn (multiengine training)

Question 4

1 GROUP

Answer 4

• To understand control and exploit battle-space and deliver decisive combat action.

1. RAF Connigsby (Lincolnshire England)
   
   • QRA South (2 Frontline Typhoon SQN’s)
2. RAF Lossiemouth (Moray Scotland)
   
   • QRA North ( 3 Frontline Typhoon SQN’s)
3. RAF Boulmer (Northumberland) (Air Command and control)
   
   • Houses air surveillance and control systems
   • Helps to detect aircraft in uk airspace (control and reporting centre)
   • They alert a QRA in intercept aircraft.

Question 5

Overseas Bases

Answer 5

RAF AKROTIRI (CYPRUS)

- Permanent joint operating base.
- Used as a forward operating base for ops we conduct in the middle east based there:
- No. 84 Squadron 
- No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing
- Operation Shader 

RAF ACENSION ISLANDS (SOUTH ATLANTIC)

- 4000 miles from the UK
- Via Johannesburg
- used to help protect the UK's south Atlantic territories

RAF Gibraltar

- 4000m runway
- close to Africa
- used for Tri service training.

RAF, Mount Pleasant Falkland Islands
- establish a fighter and transport presence in the Islands

Question 6

MOD Establishments

Answer 6

1. MOD St Athan is a large Ministry of Defence site in the Vale of Glamorgan (southern Wales)
   
   • SFSG
   • where the RAF’s non-aircraft, ground engineering technicians are trained.