Top Guns: Inside the RAF

High above the Black Sea, there's a close call for a rookie pilot scouting Russian military activity.

A Reaper drone hunts ISIS terrorists in Iraq and a squadron attacks Houthi missile sites in Yemen.

A Typhoon-trainee has a cockpit event. And the whole of the RAF is rocked by a tragic accident involving the death of a pilot.

A junior pilot has a close encounter over Syria with two Russian jets and engineers work flat out to keep the Typhoons battle-ready.

At a Lincolnshire air base, a Reaper spy drone hunts ISIS terrorists holed up in caves in the Iraqi desert.

A pilot flies into the danger zone as he bids to make the grade as a 'Top Gun'.