The UK could push back the retirement of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) fleet of Puma HC2 transport helicopters to 2027 or even 2028 amid slow progress acquiring a replacement. Under the Ministry of ...

OXFORD, England—Airbus Helicopters CEO Bruno Even has suggested the U.K. Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Puma helicopter fleet could continue to fly into the mid-2030s, potentially negating the need for a ...

Helicopters don’t get anywhere near the love lavished on planes, and about the only time we hear about an Air Force in the car world is when an automaker wants to race a fighter plane down a runway.

Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement last February that the government would increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP ...

A classic Caterham Seven and a helicopter used by the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) don’t share much in common. Indeed, they couldn’t be more different. Whereas one is a lightweight, stripped-back sports ...

LONDON—The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has completed a series of flypasts around the UK with its “workhorse” Airbus Puma helicopters ahead of the type’s formal withdrawal from service on March 31 without ...

The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has flown 30,000 hours on its Westland-Aerospatiale SA 330E Puma HC2 medium-lift helicopters over the last five years, with 10,000 of these having been accrued on ...

A pair of Cyprus-based Pumas at the type's farewell flypast out of RAF Akrotiri. With the helicopter also operated out of Brunei and the UK, its retirement comes ...