COMBAT AIRCRAFT MONTHLY OCTOBER ISSUE – OUT NOW!!

FREE SUPPLEMENT USAF 2014 AIR POWER REVIEW

Robert F. Dorr opens Combat Aircraft’s detailed overview of America’s air force with a review of the current status of USAF procurement. In the following pages Tom Kaminski provides a detailed look at units, bases and aircraft at a time when challenges have never been bigger for the world’s greatest air force.

FEATURING:

PILOT PROFILE: THE BLUE ANGELS
Ken Neubeck talks to LCDR Nate Barton, Blue Angel 3, to find out how the US Navy Blue Angels are back in action after sequestration all but wiped out their attendance at airshows during 2013

INDUSTRY REPORT: THE CASE FOR THE GROWLER
With renewed questions about the service entry timeline of the F-35C Lightning II and the future importance of electronic attack platforms, Brad Elward evaluates continued efforts to keep the Super Hornet and Growler production line open beyond 2016

GLORY DAYS: FIRST WITH THE FALCON
As the pioneering US Air Force F-16 unit in Europe, the 50th Tactical Fighter Wing at Hahn AB, Germany, found itself in the vanguard of forces ranged against the Warsaw Pact. Ben Dunnell recalls this famous wing’s ‘Viper’ era, and recounts how it was also one of the first casualties of post-Cold War cuts

GERMAN EUROFIGHTERS GO MULTI¬ROLE
Alexander Golz flies with the German Luftwaffe as its Eurofighters turn multi-role

EXERCISE REPORT: HAWGSMOKE 2014
Every two years the A-10 community comes together to do what ‘Hawgs’ do best — punish targets! Neil Dunridge heads to Arizona and tastes the cordite at ‘Hawgsmoke’

SPECIAL REPORT: LUKE TRAINS WITH LITENING
CA details how the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB has started training new pilots with the Litening advanced targeting pod. Jim Haseltine

and much more!

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