Comment - AFM's monthly opinion on the latest military aviation hot-button topics
News - The world's top military aviation news spanning almost 20 pages. This month's notable highlights include Japan's F-35A Lightning II exercises aboard the USS America, along with the Eurofighter bid to replace the Spanish Air Force's F/A-18 Hornets by 2030
INTEL REPORT: Europe's aerospace collaborations - A Euro-based agency is seeking greater co-operation and economies of scale, creating more collaborative aerospace programmes for NATO and its EU partners, reports Alan Warnes
Gripen on a war footing - Dispersing its fighters across remote runways keeps the Swedish Air Force combat ready. But as Bjorn Ruden reports, the strategy demands rapid refuelling and re-arming turnarounds.
Attrition report - Dave Allport details the world's most recent military accidents
Goodbye An-26 - The Hungarian Air Force has retired its last Soviet fixed-wing aircraft, the venerable Antonov An-26, one of the most popular transport aircraft of the Cold War era, as Tamas Martenyi reports
Venezuelan interceptors - When an unidentified EP-3 Aries II entered Venezuelan air space earlier this year, the nation's air force scrambled its Sukhoi Su-30 fighters to see off the invader, writes Sergio Santana
Polish Fighter Training - Patrick Roegies and Paul Gross reveal how the Polish Air Force has updated its fleet of fighterpilot training aircraft, with the intention of making its training more cost effective and less dependent on outside forces
Elemental forces - The Vermont National Guard in South Burlington, Vermont, talks to Rob Coppinger about its huge transition from the Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon to the F-35A Lightning II
Wedgetail at risk? - Jon Lake reveals how the Royal Air Force is struggling to match its essential Airborne-Early-Warning capabilities with the budgets it's being given. Is the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail the answer to its prayers or an expensive 'white elephant'?
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - The ongoing conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia has seen a lethal use of drone power, reports Alexander Mladenov
Tackling the Horn of Africa - International powers are jostling for influence amid the war on terror, writes Al J. Venter
LEGENDS: The majestic Sea King - Ian Harding speaks to the pilots and crew of the Royal Navy's now-retired Westland Sea King ASaC7 - a helicopter that carved a legacy as one of the service's most-prized assets
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On the cover: A Sukhoi Su-30 MK2 of the Fighter Air Group No. 11 'Diablos' of the Bolivarian Military Aviation of Venezuela Sergio J. Padron A Insert top-left: 7he Swedish Air Force disperses its Gripen fighters across remote runways to keep them combat ready Bjorn Ruden Insert top-right: A Royal Navy Sea King ASaC7 landing aboard RFA Argus' during deck training Ian Harding
Insert right: An M-346 jet trainer of the Polish Air Force Paul Gross
Insert lower right: An E-7A of the RAAF Cpi Craig Barrett