This is a List of RAF Regiment squadrons. The Royal Air Force Regiment

RAF Regiment

The Royal Air Force Regiment is a specialist airfield defence corps founded by Royal Warrant in 1942. After a 32 week trainee gunner course, its members are trained and equipped to prevent a successful enemy attack in the first instance; minimise the damage caused by a successful attack; and...

 is the ground fighting force of the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

 and is charged mainly with protecting military

Military

A military is an organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. The military may have additional functions of use to its greater society, such as advancing a political agenda e.g...

 airfields, amongst other duties.

First formed in 1942 to protect the airfields against enemy attack, the Regiment's motto

Motto

A motto is a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization. A motto may be in any language, but Latin is the most used. The local language is usual in the mottoes of governments...

 is Per Ardua - Through Adversity. They were also known as Rock Apes, a term given to them by other RAF members.

Field Squadrons

• No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack. It is currently based at RAF Honington.- History :...
  
   (formerly light armour)
• No. II Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment is based at RAF Honington in Suffolk. It is a parachute-trained Field Squadron in the RAF Regiment which is capable of inserting by parachute and securing forward airfields, although this capability has never been put to use in combat operations.-Early history:The unit...
  
  (formerly light armour)
• No. 3 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 3 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 3 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack.-Early history:...
  
  
• No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack.The squadron's current HQ is at RAF Leeming.It had previously been at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus...
  
  (formerly light armour)
• No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack....
  
  (formerly light armour)
• No. 63 Squadron RAF Regiment(formerly Rapier)

Rapier Squadrons

• No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack.The squadrons current HQ is at RAF Honington....
  
  (formerly light armour)
• No. 26 Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 26 Squadron RAF Regiment
  Formed at Yatesbury on 27 August 1951, '26 Squadron RAF Regiment' has served and been based at locations such as Abu Sueir, Habbaniya, Amman, Tymbou, Nicosia, Changi, Bicester, Gutersloh and Laarbruch...
  
  
• No. 37 Squadron RAF Regiment

Disbanded Squadrons

Source: rafregiment.net

Nos 17, 18, 19, 20

No. 20 Squadron RAF Regiment

No. 20 Squadron RAF Regiment, formed approximately 1985, disbanded approximately 1995. Based at RAF Honington, equipped with Rapier Field Standard B1. As part of 6 Wing RAF Regiment, its role was to defend USAF airbases in the UK. A Flight was tasked to provide short range air defence at RAF...

, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 48, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 66, 194 and others, including No. 2909 Squadron RAF Regiment

No. 2909 Squadron RAF Regiment

The 2909 Squadron of the RAF Regiment saw action in Greece taking part in an invasion of the island of Kos from 15 September 1943 during the first time the RAF Regiment units deployed for action by air...

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RAuxAF Regiment Squadrons

• 501 County of Gloucestershire
  No. 501 Squadron RAF
  No 501 Squadron was the fourteenth of the twenty-one flying units in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, the volunteer reserve part of the British Royal Air Force. The squadron won seven battle honours, flying Hurricane, Spitfire and Tempest fighter aircraft during World War II, and was one of the most...
  
   Squadron RAuxAF Regiment
• 504 County of Nottingham Squadron RAuxAF [Regiment Flight only]
• 2503 County of Lincoln Squadron RAuxAF Regiment
• 2620 County of Norfolk Squadron RAuxAF Regiment
• 2622 Highland
  Highland (council area)
  Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute. Their councils, and those of Angus and...
  
   Squadron RAuxAF Regiment
• 2623 East Anglian Squadron RAuxAF Regiment
  No. 2623 (East Anglian) Squadron RAF Regiment
  No. 2623 Squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force is a part of the Royal Air Force Regiment, based at RAF Honington. It was formed on 1 July 1979 to provide ground defence of the station...
  
  
• 2625 County Of Cornwall Squadron RAuxAF Regiment
• 2602 City of Glasgow Squadron RAuxAF Regiment