The RAF Force Protection Force Headquarters was created in 2004 as the successor to the Tactical Survive to Operate Headquarters (Tac STO HQ). It controls the Force Protection Wings which are tasked with protection of RAF stations in the UK and overseas. Each Wing is based around a mix of

RAF Regiment The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist corps. Founded by royal warrant in 1942, the Corps carries out soldiering tasks relating to the delivery of air power. Examples of such ta ...

and

RAF Police The Royal Air Force Police (RAFP) is the service police branch of the Royal Air Force, headed by the provost marshal of the Royal Air Force. Its headquarters are at RAF Honington and it deploys throughout the world to support RAF and UK defen ...

squadrons and other support staff.

Structure

As of 2018, there are seven Force Protection wings.

No. 2 Force Protection Wing

RAF Leeming Royal Air Force Leeming or RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located near Leeming, North Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1940 and was jointly used by the RAF and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Between 1950 and 1991, it ...

* No. 2 Force Protection Wing Headquarters *

No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment is a C-UAS Sqn of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is to detect, track, and ultimately disrupt and destroy unmanned airborne vehicles. The squadron's current HQ is at RAF Leeming. The motto of the ...

* No. 609 (West Riding) Squadron RAuxAF

RAF Honington Royal Air Force Honington or more simply RAF Honington is a Royal Air Force station located south of Thetford near Ixworth in Suffolk, England. Although used as a bomber station during the Second World War, RAF Honington is now the RAF Regim ...

* No. 1 (Tactical) Police Squadron

No. 3 Force Protection Wing RAF

Its motto is ''Parare Et Protegrere'' ("Prepare & Protect").

RAF Marham RAF Marham is a Royal Air Force station and military airbase near the village of Marham in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia. It is home to No. 138 Expeditionary Air Wing (138 EAW) and, as such, is one of the RAF's "Main Operating Ba ...

* No. 3 RAF Force Protection Wing Headquarters * No. 2620 (County of Norfolk) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment * No. 6 RAF Police Squadron * No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment

No. 4 Force Protection Wing RAF

RAF Brize Norton Royal Air Force Brize Norton or RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, about west north-west of London, is the largest station of the Royal Air Force. It is close to the village of Brize Norton, and the towns of Carterton and Witney. The statio ...

* No. 4 RAF Force Protection Wing Headquarters * No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment *

No. 2624 (County of Oxfordshire) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment The numero sign or numero symbol, №, (also represented as Nº, No, No. or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word ''number''(''s'') indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For example, using the numero sign, t ...

* No. 7 RAF Police Squadron

No. 5 Force Protection Wing RAF

RAF Lossiemouth Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or more commonly RAF Lossiemouth is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland. Lossiemouth is one of the largest and busiest fast-jet stations in the R ...

* No. 5 Force Protection Wing Headquarters *

No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack. History The history of No. 51 Squadron goes back to 1947 when it was formed at RAF Celle nea ...

* No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron RAuxAF * No. 2622 (Highland) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment * No. 4 RAF Police Squadron

No. 7 Force Protection Wing RAF

RAF Coningsby Royal Air Force Coningsby or RAF Coningsby , is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located south-west of Horncastle, and north-west of Boston, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is a Main Operating Base of the RAF and ho ...

* No. 7 Force Protection Wing Headquarters *Air Land Integration Cell RAF Honington * No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment RAF Honington * No. 2623 (East Anglian) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment

No. 8 Force Protection Wing RAF

RAF Waddington * No. 8 Force Protection Wing Headquarters * No. 2503 (County of Lincoln) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment *No. 5 RAF Police Squadron

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* No. 63 (Queen's Colour) Squadron RAF Regiment

References

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