Top Guns: Inside the RAF

With unprecedented access to RAF fighter jets, drones, pilots and other service personnel, this series takes viewers inside the cockpit and into the very heart of the battle. A junior pilot has a close encounter over Syria with two Russian jets. Engineers work around the clock to keep the Typhoons battle-ready in Cyprus. At RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, two pilots prepare for an imminent overseas deployment.

With unprecedented access to RAF fighter jets, drones and service personnel, this series takes viewers inside the cockpit and into the very heart of the battle. From RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, a satellite-controlled Reaper spy drone hunts down ISIS terrorists hiding in caves in the middle of the Iraqi desert. At NATO's largest European airbase in Romania, a pilot vies for promotion before his impending wedding. And the RAF struggle to keep their new jet under wraps from eager aviation fans across the UK.

With unprecedented access to RAF fighter jets, drones and service personnel, this series takes viewers inside the cockpit and into the very heart of the battle. In the final episode of the current run, a pilot flies into the danger zone to see if he has what it takes to become a qualified weapons instructor - the British version of a 'Top Gun'. A 22-year-old rookie engineer faces her first real test when Typhoons are scrambled for an emergency. And a veteran pilots a Hurricane, notorious for being the RAF's most difficult plane to handle.