The 7 Most Remote Royal Air Force Bases & Their Strategic Roles

The Royal Air Force operates a number of remote airbases around the world, although a lot fewer than it once did. Not only did airbases that once spanned the British Empire disappear as countries became independent, but they also disappeared in some territories that remain British territories, as well as in remote locations in the United Kingdom itself. In the Second World War, the RAF operated bases in the British Overseas Territory of Berumda as well as the Shetland and Orkney Islands off the northern coast of Scotland.