No. 617 Squadron RAF that New Zealand film director Peter Jackson and David Frost would co-produce a re-make of the film. It has been scripted by Stephen Fry and will be directed by Christian Rivers. The last living Dam Buster pilot at the time, New Zealander Les Munro (1919-2015), offered his services as a technical adviser. In 2010 the National Archives released documents that showed it was considered using 617 Squadron to target the Italian leader Mussolini in July or August 1943. The British believed if Mussolini was killed it might take Italy out of the war. It would have been a flight carried
No. 9 Squadron RAF Syrian Civil War. No. 9 Squadron will disband temporarily in late 2018 once the Tornado GR4 is retired. The squadron is expected to reform the same year at RAF Lossiemouth, equipped with the Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 1. IX(B) Squadron is affiliated to , the King's Royal Hussars and the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. In March 2017, the Squadron was twinned with No.9 Squadron of the Pakistan Air Force. No. 9 Squadron RAF No. 9 Squadron (otherwise known as No. IX (Bomber) Squadron or IX(B) Squadron) of the Royal Air Force was the first in the service to receive the Panavia