Articles from the latest issue in digital format
‘KC Hawgs’ in Greece: USAF A-10Cs return for Defender Europe 23
Ten A-10C Thunderbolt IIs assigned to the 303rd Fighter Squadron ‘KC Hawgs’ visited Europe in May this year to take part in the US Army’s Exercise Defender Europe 23. George Karavantos reports on the role they played in the exercise and examines how this elderly stalwart of the American forces still lives to fight another day
ANALYSIS: Why is the F-22A Raptor already facing retirement?
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor leads the way as a fifth-generation air superiority fighter, but its days appear to be numbered – Jon Lake examines why
The inside story of Exercise Air Defender 23
A giant exercise under Luftwaffe leadership saw a mass deployment of fighters from the US to Germany to train with their European partners, as Dr Stefan Petersen reports
USAF marks 100 years of air-to-air refuelling in Op Centennial Contact
To honor the centenary of its air-to-air refueling (AAR) capability, the USAF conducted a series of tanker-focused flyovers across all 50 US states, as well as some of its deployed locations, as part of Operation Centennial Contact on June 27
F-35 test pilot: How Lockheed Martin tests the 5th Gen Lightning II
Lockheed Martin’s Chief of Fighter Flight Operations, Tony ‘Brick’ Wilson, gave Dino Carrara an exclusive insight into the work of the company’s test pilots on the cutting-edge F-35 programme
Running on Empty: How budget cuts have damaged Iranian Naval Aviation
Repeated budget cuts have had a drastic impact on Iranian Naval Aviation, as Babak Taghvaee discovers
How the USAF is planning to massively change its frontline fighter fleets
The USAF’s fighter force comprises a disparate mix of aircraft types – some of which are rather old – and there are urgent plans to recapitalize the fleet with a mix of new and upgraded types, as Jon Lake explains
