The encounter can be revealed as figures show how the RAF is being repeatedly scrambled to intercept the Kremlin's bombers.

Fourteen Voyager aircraft and a complete support package are being provided to the RAF under a 27 year £10.5bn Private Finance Initiative contract signed with the AirTanker consortium.

The aircraft is based on the Voyager Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) that serves in the RAF's aerial refueling (AR) fleet. Vespina is based on the Airbus A330 widebody twin-engine ...

The new future strategic tanker aircraft (FSTA) has also been named publicly by the RAF as Voyager. Voyager, a dual role air to air tanker and transport aircraft, will replace the long serving VC ...

RAF jets have intercepted Russian military aircraft for the second day in a row. Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and a Voyager air-to-air fuel tanker from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire ...

Bosses also described the Voyager as being the RAF's "sole air-to-air refuelling (AAR) tanker and also operates as a strategic air transport." They added: "The aircraft is in service as the ...

The RAF Voyager is used by the prime minister ... and Defence Group told the BBC they are carrying out work on the aircraft, which is much bigger than ones they would usually work on.

RAF Typhoons, Voyager and personnel have joined counterparts from the United States and Australia to take part in Exercise Red Flag Nellis.

The carbon-fiber composite propeller is now available for Cessna 180, 182, 185, 206, and T206 single-engine aircraft ... for every Voyager propeller purchased by an RAF member in 2025, Hartzell ...

Describing the Voyager, they added: "Voyager is the RAF’s sole air-to-air refuelling (AAR) tanker and also operates as a strategic air transport. "The aircraft is in service as the Voyager KC.Mk 2, ...

The RAF Voyager is used by the prime minister ... and Defence Group told the BBC they are carrying out work on the aircraft, which is much bigger than ones they would usually work on.