up Strike Command were: No. 1 Group RAF – the "Air Combat Group" No. 2 Group RAF – the "Air Combat Support Group" Component groups of Strike Command included:...
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RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served...
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to Bomber Command, was approved on 23 November 1966. RAF Bomber Command merged with RAF Fighter Command to form RAF Strike Command at RAF High Wycombe...
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RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...
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93,300 personnel. Royal Air Force Strike Command (RAF Strike Command, or RAF STC), was the main and primary command of the Royal Air Force, and was in...
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Strike Command, a military formation, can mean either: Air Force Global Strike Command, a major command of the United States Air Force RAF Strike Command...
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Support Command, unlike its predecessor Transport Command, possessed strike aircraft such as Hawker Hunters. With the contraction of the RAF, it only...
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before RAF Strike Command (the amalgamation of Bomber Command and Fighter Command on 30 April 1968) moved its units out and Training Command took over...
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part of RAF Bomber Command from 1936 to 1967, and recently part of RAF Strike Command from 2000 until it disbanded on 1 April 2006. No. 3 Group was first...
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Training commands on 1 April 2007, and has its headquarters at RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The equivalent in the Royal Navy is Navy Command Headquarters...
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Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Strike Command from 1994 to 1997. Educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate, Wratten entered RAF Cranwell and was commissioned...
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Brian Burridge (section RAF career)
31 October 2003. In July 2003 Burridge became Commander-in-Chief RAF Strike Command. He served as air aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II from 31 July...
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Until early 2007, the RAF had two commands, Strike Command and Personnel and Training Command, which were co-located at RAF High Wycombe. On 1 April...
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Support Command in 1967 and then, in 1972, the air support group within RAF Strike Command. It was temporarily disbanded from 18 Nov 1983 to 31 Oct 1992 and...
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the Second World War on 4 November 1940 under No. 5 Group, part of RAF Bomber Command. The first flying unit, No. 106 Squadron with the Handley Page Hampden...
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Michael Graydon (section RAF career)
commander in the 1980s before serving as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Strike Command during the Gulf War. He was Chief of the Air Staff from 1992 to 1997...
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Short Belfast (section RAF service)
system equipment. Following the formation of RAF Strike Command and a reorganisation of transport assets, the RAF decided to retire all of its Belfast transports...
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Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
2007 by combining RAF Strike Command and RAF Personnel and Training Command, resulting in a single command covering the whole RAF, led by the Chief of...
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style uniform and latterly came under the administrative control of RAF Strike Command and the operational control of the Home Office. Civilian volunteers...
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Joe French (redirect from John French (RAF officer))
the last Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Strike Command (2006–07). French joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1967 and qualified as a helicopter pilot...
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David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley (section RAF career)
on 1 January 1981, and appointed to the post of Commander-in-Chief RAF Strike Command on 20 September 1982 with the acting rank of air chief marshal on...
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simply RAF Bawtry is a former Royal Air Force station located at Bawtry Hall in Bawtry, South Yorkshire, England and was No. 1 Group RAF Bomber Command headquarters...
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RAF Transport Command was a Royal Air Force command that controlled all transport aircraft of the RAF. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming...
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within RAF Strike Command. It was transferred to RAF Maintenance Command on 1 September 1972 and disbanded on 31 August 1973, becoming part of RAF Support...
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short-lived formation of Strike Command in the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1996 as part of the post-Cold War reorganisation of the RAF. It absorbed the...
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of RAF Strike Command in 1994 and then Commander-in-Chief of RAF Logistics Command in 1996. He served as Air Officer Commanding RAF Strike Command from...
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List of communications units and formations of the Royal Air Force (redirect from Signals Command Development Squadron RAF)
included RAF Signals Command, which was later reduced to group status and incorporated into RAF Strike Command. Nos 26 and No. 60 Group RAF were established...
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handed over to Coastal Command to monitor Soviet ships and submarines in the Norwegian Sea. Until 2010 it was the main base for the RAF's fleet of Hawker Siddeley...
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RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central...
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military forces, British aircraft were sent to disable the runway with RAF Strike Command Vulcan bombers (Operation Black Buck) and Royal Navy Sea Harriers...
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