what the british royal air force were doing. on the left. and the only way that the the royal air force back in the day could actually counter that is by flying alongside the v—i and actually tipping the wing to put it off track and putting it into the countryside. so that always and even today, there's this lack of counter drone technology, which we'll come to a bit later. mhm. the houthis are using it to, to quite good effect. the houthis are and in fact this is a good time to look at sort of the, the spectrum of capability, if you like. and if you can go slide, please. this is the this is the black hornet. and you can just see how small that drone is in the hands of that operator. it's 16cm long. it has an ability to put a day camera on it and a night thermal camera on it, and this will really come into its own when you look at urban operations. look at soldiers operating in an urban environment. so, you know, they want to clear a block of houses, apartments. you can put this thing inside any room within those apartments or th

organised by the rauxaf foundation, who were a charity set up to maintain the history of the royal auxiliary air forcester. again presided over by his royal highness duke of gloucester . and highness duke of gloucester. and again eamonn followed after that by the unveiling of a new glass stained glass window in the raf club, actually commissioned through a competition. beautiful and one of our own aviators won it. oh , chad kenney who actually it. oh, chad kenney who actually won that? so it's a fantastic story. >> could i could i ask you just finally, in terms of the current conflict in the middle east and would your reservists be asked to play any sort of role in that wherever right now , today, wherever right now, today, wherever right now, today, wherever the raf are serving, there are reserves out there serving. >> so cyprus everywhere, everywhere. i mean, for example, just two weeks ago i came back from romania, where we had 12% of our of that force out there doing nato air policing. so guarding the base, logistics, intelligence briefing, the pilots, 12% of that were reserves. so we're out there

what the british royal air force were doing, that is a spitfire on the right and they the one rocket.that they could actually counter that was by flying alongside of it and actually tipping the wing to put it off track and into the countryside. and even today, there is this lack of counter drone technology. christian: the houthis are using it to good effect. mikey: they are. and it is a good time to look at the spectrum of capability. this is the black hornets. you can just see how small that drone is in the hands of that operator. it is 16 centimeters long and it would have the ability to put a day camera and night thermal camera. this will come into its own when you look at urban operations and the soldiers operating in an urban environment. they want to clear a block of houses or apartments. you can put this thing inside any room in the apartment door the building and it will clear any imminent threat. and then we go to the next sore -- the next category, category two which is viewers might recognize that. that is a chinese made vgi drone. this is available all over the world to co

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that or be shut down um all together, they want the uk to stop it spy machines using it. the royal air force secretaries base in cyprus, massive uh base there, that out of which the uk has been running spy missions, intelligence gathered according to a declassified uk from those missions, shared with israeli military used of course to bomb the gaza strip into was helscape that has it has become um one year on, but despite all of this pressure from the members of the public who remain uh by and large resolutely on the side of the palestinians and on the side of those who are seeking justice and freedom for the palestinian people, the fact remains that the uk government continues to support the israeli military, but at the same time, as i say, um, more than half of britains, according to the latest calls continue to support the palestinians and also call uh for a cease fire there, and these are people on and both sides of the political divide, right wingers and right and left are calling for immediate cheese fire and for the uk government to stop supporting the israeli regime and it's um massa

welcome to sydney in australia, where we are watching an aircraft of the royal australian air force thatust landed at the city's main international airport. on board that aircraft, steps are taken up that aircraft, steps are taken up to the door, are king charles the first and queen camilla —— king charles iii and queen camilla. they have landed on australian soilfor queen camilla. they have landed on australian soil for the king's says a visit to australia as head of state on this important trip for him and his wife to visit australia and samoa that will last about nine days, and that starts here in sydney. we are waiting for the king and queen to disembark from the aircraft. on board with them will be members of staff and those that have planned this visit. there is a welcome party here in australia to greet them. they have come in on a jet from the royal australian air force because thatis australian air force because that is the custom. when you are a visiting head of state, it is usually the country you are visiting which were sent an aircraft to pick you up and bring you back to th

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sanctuary in northern thailand on thursday, about 100 elephants had to be evacuated in the royal thai air forces now involved often the search for two others who remain missing. and get the story now from cnn's anna coren floodwaters. these giants of the land push for higher ground come, quick, use them but it's a slow and arduous process especially, for the elephants trapped in their enclosures wait to be risky for days now, heavy rains have been falling across northern thailand hosing flash flooding and landslides but for the made ten valley just outside chiang my home to the elephant nature park it is now completely underwater. threatening the lives of the animals. it provides sanctuary for 100 elephants who live here along with a menagerie of thousands of other animals have all been rescued from injury and abuse. but this natural disaster only adding to the quickly moves through the floodwaters another follows a distance behind her name is platon and she is blind and injury from her former days in the logging industry unable to see. she's caught in the fence. >> the elephants calling out the

we've just got back from a five week tour of canada helping celebrate the royal canadian air force'sigh commission, which was amazing. and then obviously the fly past of niagara falls. it feels fantastic flying over such an iconic landmark. we're all concentrating on making the perfect formation and the timing work, but i get a little peek out the front. such an iconic place to perform a fly—past. we flew with the lancaster, one of the only two airworthy lancasters in the world beforehand, before going on to the falls, and it was just a fantastic day out all around. it's always nice coming back to the home county to such a warm welcome. you can't really compare it to the niagara falls. it's a little bit different, but it was lovely to come home to loved ones and to all our supporters who have who have been so supportive over the five weeks that we've been away. and we really appreciate that. how gorgeous is that? what pictures. fantastic. coming up. notjust not just the notjust the red arrows, the colour of red leaves! the national trust is warning that our gardens, parks and woodlan