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the RAF adopted an area-attack strategy, by which it hoped to impede Germany's war production, her powers of resistance (by destroying resources and forcing Germany to divert resources from her front lines to defend her air space), and her morale.

The Royal Air Force (RAF) used napalm to a limited extent, in both the Pacific War and European Theatre of World War II.

When the belt-fed Browning Mark II was selected as the standard machine-gun armament for RAF aircraft, the VGO became redundant for the RAF.

This system provided the vital advance information that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain; without it, significant numbers of fighter aircraft, which Great Britain did not have available, would always have needed to be in the air to respond quickly.

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Britain ordered approximately 13,000 1911s in .455 Webley Auto during the First World War, with examples known to go to the Royal Air Force.

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II.

The aircraft was first flown operationally by the RAF as a tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter-bomber (Mustang Mk I).

The RN and RAF versions were given the designation F-4K and F-4M respectively, and entered service with the British military aircraft designations Phantom FG.1 (fighter/ground attack) and Phantom FGR.2 (fighter/ground attack/reconnaissance).

United Kingdom Royal Air Force and Royal Navy (owned by the RAF but jointly operated) - 48 F-35Bs received, of which 47 are operational after the loss of one aircraft in November 2021. As of 2018, three of the UK's aircraft were in the US being used for testing and training.

Lewis guns were also carried by the Royal Air Force's air-sea rescue launches.

In 1995, the Royal Air Force ordered eight Chinook HC3s, effectively a lower cost MH-47E for special operations.

for service with the Royal Air Force (RAF).

A total of 48,000 aerial mines were laid by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the European Theatre during World War II.

A third MQ-9A was in the process of being purchased by the RAF in 2007.

Formally adopted by the British Army and Royal Air Force as the L9A1 in 1963, a replacement for Webley and Enfield revolvers in 1954 and by the Northern Ireland Security Guard Service in 1998..

When the Tomahawk was used by Allied units based in the UK from February 1941, this limitation relegated the Tomahawk to low-level reconnaissance with RAF Army Cooperation Command and only No.

The Mosquito was also operated by the RAF in the Southeast Asian theatre and by the Royal Australian Air Force based in the Moluccas and Borneo during the Pacific War.

The Tornado was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), Italian Air Force, and RSAF during the Gulf War of 1991, in which the Tornado conducted many low-altitude penetrating strike missions.

The equivalent model for export to the UK is the C-130K, known by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as the Hercules C.1.

The Browning .303 was used as the RAF and Fleet Air Arm (FAA) primary fixed forward firing aircraft armament before the war, both in synchronized mounts (firing through a spinning propeller) on pre-war biplane fighters (Gloster Gladiator, Hawker Fury).

Tallboy or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.

Of these, 531 were RBL755s dropped by the Royal Air Force.

Rapier was later selected by the RAF Regiment to replace their Bofors guns and Tigercat missiles.

The M60D is also used by the British on Royal Air Force Chinooks.

Some were issued to the Royal Air Force.

L1A1s have been used by the British Armed Forces in Malaysia, Northern Ireland, and in the Falklands War (in opposition to FN FAL-armed Argentine forces), the First Gulf War (where it was still on issue to some second line British Army units and RAF personnel not yet issued with the L85A1), and by

It was primarily used by the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and to a lesser extent by the Royal Air Force Regiment for use in their training facilities.

It was widely used by regiments in the British Army, as well as the RAF Regiment and Commonwealth countries throughout the period.

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Used in the past by the British Army, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force RAF Regiment, the L42A1 entered service in 1970.

Tigercat was used exclusively by 48 Squadron RAF Regiment between 1967 and 1978, before being replaced by Rapier.

It was the first such weapon to enter active service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Fleet Air Arm, equipping the English Electric Lightning interceptor, de Havilland Sea Vixen naval fighter and the Gloster Javelin all weather interceptor.

As well as becoming a standard fitting in the British forces during the First World War, the Scarff ring was used in the postwar Royal Air Force for many years.

The Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN cannon (ADEN being an acronym for "Armament Development, Enfield") is a 30 mm revolver cannon used on many military aircraft, particularly those of the British Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm.

SPEAR is a family of air-launched weapons under development by MBDA UK for the Royal Air Force's Select Precision Effects At Range (SPEAR) Capability 3, or SPEAR 3 programme, from which the system also derives its name.

The Skyflash, or Sky Flash in marketing material, was a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile derived from the US AIM-7 Sparrow missile and carried by Royal Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms and Tornado F3s, Italian Aeronautica Militare and Royal Saudi Air Force Tornados and Swedish Flygvapnet Saab Viggens.

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