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Iranian KC-707 begins overhaul

Babak Taghvaee 18th May 2017

A rare view inside the IACI facility at Mehrabad International...

India poised to negotiate C295 deal

18th May 2017

INDIA HAS moved closer to sealing a deal to acquire 56 Airbus...

Japan MSDF retires MH-53Es

Dave Allport 18th May 2017

The final two JMSDF MH-53Es at the retirement ceremony for the...

Pakistan Air Force Il-78MP in France

Jean-Baptiste Rouer 18th May 2017

PAKISTAN AIR Force (PAF) Il-78MP R11-03AN was an unusual visitor...

Australian seeker for Joint Strike Missile

18th May 2017

NORWEGIAN COMPANY KONGSBERG Defence Systems has signed a deal...

European Gunships Part 4

18th May 2017

AFM concludes its review of Europe’s helicopter gunship fleets...

All Change

words and pictures Nigel Hay 18th May 2017

Nigel Hay reports on a change of ownership at Jeeparts and gives...

East Meets West

words and pictures Louise Limb 18th May 2017

Thanks to the International Six Days’ Trial, this Eastern Bloc...

Echoes of War 1945: US Ninth Army

words John Carroll picture Archive 18th May 2017

This photograph taken as the US Ninth Army was involved in fighting...

China’s long march to the sea

18th May 2017

Chinese carrier aircraft – like this J-15 – currently still...

Poland won’t buy used F-16s

Krzysztof Kuska 18th May 2017

Mali helicopter deployment complete

18th May 2017

THE HEERESFLIEGER (German Army Aviation) has completed its deployment...

Oregon Eagles on the move

18th May 2017

F-15C 84-0026 of the 123rd Fighter Squadron, 142nd Fighter Wing,...

HC-144 progress

18th May 2017

THE US Coast Guard’s HC-144 Ocean Sentry medium-range surveillance...

Chilean Dauphin modernisation

Juan Carlos Cicalesi 18th May 2017

AIRBUS HELICOPTERS has announced that the Aviación Naval (Chilean...

Air power in the battle for Ras Lanuf

Babak Taghvaee 18th May 2017

COMBAT REPORT THE PETROCHEMICAL facilities, known as the ‘oil...

Production set to slow for Kuwaiti Eurofighters

ALAN WARNES 18th May 2017

DURING THE handover of the 500th Eurofighter at Leonardo’s...

Kazakhstan orders two more C295s

18th May 2017

One of five previous C295s that entered service with the Sil...

FAP in force

Jorge Ruivo 18th May 2017

This year’s Real Thaw exercise – the ninth – involved aircraft...

Coming up in AFM

18th May 2017

NEXT ISSUE The July issue is on sale globally from June 15.*...

All Under One Root

words & pictures Vicky Turner 18th May 2017

Museum of the Month Bovington Tank Museum Information is...

From The Farm to THE FRONT

words Steve Wilson pictures Garry Stuart, John Tinley 18th May 2017

James Kinnear examines the role the Russian STZ-5 artillery tractor...

THE BATTLE OF ARRAS

18th May 2017

The April - May 1917 Battle of Arras was the British part of...

WATCHING RUSSIA WATCHING US

Tim Ripley 18th May 2017

Tim Ripley examines the secretive world of RAF and USAF spy flights...

ITALIAN TORNADO FORCE

Niels Roman 18th May 2017

Ghedi air base, near Brescia in the province of Lombardy, is...

F-35 pilots begin carrier simulator ‘flights’

18th May 2017

PILOTS HAVE begun using a new F-35 Lightning II simulator at...

Macedonian Mi-17s return to service

Igor Bozinovski 18th May 2017

THE VOZDUHOPLOVNA Brigada na Armijata na Republika Makedonija...

RF-4E farewell

Alexander Golz 18th May 2017

THE HELLENIC Air Force marked the final flight of its RF-4E Phantom...

SABR still under test

18th May 2017

THE US Air Force’s 416th Flight Test Squadron (FLTS) is continuing...

Have Raider II demos manned/unmanned teaming

18th May 2017

THE AIR Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Lockheed Martin’s...