New-look AirForces Monthly January issue – OUT NOW

Featuring:

Japan’s F-X Factor
Blair Watson evaluates Japan’s search for a new fighter aircraft as contestants enter the audition stage. How will Eurofighter’s Typhoon fare against Lockheed Martin’s F-35?

Tornados Return from Libyan Ops
Alan Warnes was at RAF Marham to welcome home the Tornado force from its deployment to Southern Italy.

French Direction
With a series of base closures and squadron disbandments under way, Sébastien Buyck considers the shape of things to come for the Armée de l’Air, the French Air Force.

Ellamy Enabler
Neil Dunridge flies in a TriStar of the RAF’s 216 Squadron on an Operation Ellamy mission over the Mediterranean.

Italian Navy Air Power: Garibaldi’s Current Ops
Dottore Claudio Maugeri visited ITS Garibaldi, one of NATO’s most important assets in the Mediterranean region during the recent Operation Unified Protector

and much more!

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