Combat Aircraft June issue – OUT NOW

Featuring:

AIR POWER REVIEW: US NAVY 2013
Celebrating its 102nd anniversary in May, the US Navy continues to maintain the world’s largest fleet of carriers. Tom Kaminski provides his comprehensive overview

‘DAMBUSTERS’ AT 70
This May one of the world’s most famous flying squadrons celebrates the 70th anniversary of the operation that led to its existence. That unit is the Royal Air Force’s No 617 Squadron — the ‘Dambusters’. Jamie Hunter travels to RAF Lossiemouth to see the unit in action

C-130J SUPER HERCULES Part 2: Marine Corps, Coast Guard and international service
Following coverage of the C-130J in US Air Force service in our May issue, Tom Kaminski details variants serving with the US Marine Corps and Coast Guard, as well as the steadily increasing number of international air arms that have adopted this latest incarnation of the legendary airlifter

FAREWELL TO THE ‘PANTHERS’
May 2013 marked the end of 35 years of A-10 operations within United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). Neil Dunridge joins the ‘Panthers’ of the 81st Fighter Squadron for their final fling

RUSSIA’S UPGRADED MiG-29s
The rejection by Algeria of Mikoyan’s advanced MiG-29SMT fighters may have been an embarrassment for the Russian aerospace industry, but, as Sergey Aleksandrov reports, it provided a useful windfall for the Russian Air Force

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