AirForces Monthly August issue – OUT NOW

Featuring:

A400M: More Than a Grizzly Tale
AFM’s Jerry Gunner brings us up-to-date with this important pan-European programme just before it was due to enter service with the French Air Force.

Red Baron moves to Eurofighter
As the Luftwaffe’s JG 71 retires the F-4F Phantom, Eurofighter steps in to be the Red Baron’s new mount.

Italian Defenders
Francesco Militello Mirto and Gian Carlo Vecchi visited Trapani and Grosseto, two important Aeronautica Militare Italiano (AMI) air defence bases where Eurofighter’s Typhoon is in full operational service.

Silent Sentinel
Andrew Brookes considers a future for the RAF’s Sentinel fleet post-Afghanistan operations – will it survive the proposed axe once Operation Herrick is complete?

PLUS!

AIRCRAFT PROFILE: Short Brothers’ C-23 Sherpa
Tom Kaminski describes the utilitarian workhorse – an important asset to both the US Army and the USAF.

The Long Adios!
Salvador Mafé Huertas reports on the Spanish Air Force’s farewell event for the Dassault Mirage F1 – or was it?

and much more!

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