Air and Space Warfare Centre

Air and Space Warfare Centre
ActiveOctober 1993 – present
CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Branch Royal Air Force
TypeResearch, development and integrated mission support organisation
Part ofNo. 1 Group RAF
HeadquartersRAF Waddington
Motto(s)Arma judicare consilium dare
(Latin for 'To test the weaponry and give advice')
Commanders
Current
commander
Air Commodore Blythe Crawford

The Air and Space Warfare Centre (ASWC) is a Royal Air Force research and testing organisation based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. It has a training branch nearby as a lodger unit of RAF Cranwell and other branches elsewhere, including at RAF High Wycombe, RAF Brize Norton, MoD Boscombe Down, and RAF Odiham.[1]

  1. ^ "Air Warfare Centre". armedforces.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2012.