The air base at Waddington has been home to the RAF's most valuable surveillance, intelligence-gathering, communications and electronic warfare assets for more than three decades.
During the 1990s, Boeing E-3D Sentry AWACS and Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R1 signals intelligence platforms became familiar sights in the skies over Lincolnshire as ISTAR (Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) assets were brought together at...