RAF deploys Sentinel to Cyprus

Source: Janes.com

A UK Royal Air Force (RAF) Raytheon Sentinel R1 surveillance aircraft has been despatched to Cyprus as part of a build-up of coalition assets in advance of a potential strike against Syria.

Open-source tracking picked up the ADS-B transponder of the RAF aircraft, serial number JZ690, as it took off from its base at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire on the morning of 12 April. Later that day the same aircraft was detected over the central Mediterranean near the Greek island of Crete heading eastward towards the United Kingdom’s RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus.

An RAF spokesperson declined to provide any details to Jane’s on 13 April, saying, “All RAF intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets continue to support the allied effort on a rotational basis.



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