Combat Aircraft April issue – OUT NOW

Features include:


In-Focus – F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
Questions continue to mount as to whether Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II will deliver all that it promises. Jamie Hunter offers an in-depth review of the programme so far.

Warthog at 40 (Part 2)
Ken Neubeck completes our comprehensive review of the A-10 with a review of its performance in Operation Desert Storm and how it became the US Air Force’s close air support weapon of choice for future military campaigns.

Air Power Review: Royal Australian Air Force
Sergio Santana reviews the Royal Australian Air Force and finds an air arm emerging from a major re-equipment programme.

White Eagles in Afghanistan
Bartosz Bera journeys to Forward Operating Base Ghazni, and flies with Poland’s Independent Air Assault Group and it’s 11 Mi-24 and Mi-17 helicopters.

Factfile: Perfecting the Defenders
How the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s Eagles are being updated under the F-15 Kai initiative.

and much more!

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