 | Air Forces Monthly - July 2009
NEWS All the world's military aviation news, by region. HEADLINES UNITED KINGDOM EUROPE NORTH AMERICA LATIN AMERICA MIDDLE EAST AFRICA ASIA PACIFIC AUSTRALASIA
SPIES LIKE US - TOP SIX ISR Robert F Dorr looks at his Top Six US Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Aircraft.
AIR FORCE REPORT - TALL AMBITIONS FOR THE LOWLANDS Kees van der Mark reports on the current status of the Royal Netherlands Air Force and its expeditionary operations.
AIRCRAFT PROFILE - SU-25 FROGFOOT Alexander Mladenov examines the derivatives and export successes of the Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot, one of the world's most cost-effective ground attack aircraft.
CARRIER STRIKE - PROTECTING OUR INTERESTS Quentin Davies, MP and the UK Government's Armed Forces Minister, writes exclusively for AFM on why the UK needs a future carrier strike capability.
ATTRITION AFM's Dave Allport keeps us up to date with the world's military aviation crashes.
FLYING HARRIERS FROM CARRIERS Cdr Adrian Orchard, a Sea Harrier and Harrier pilot with 3,000 flying hours, provides an insight into what it is like to fly a Harrier from a carrier.
MISSION - TARGETING THE BRITS OVER GOOSE GREEN An Argentinean Pucará pilot's story, as told to Santiago Rivas and Juan Carlos Cicalesi, of the type's combat debut on May 28, 1982, during the Falklands War.
FEEDBACK Readers' views and comments.
JUST A NICE PIC… A Portuguese Navy Lynx Mk 95 flies over the Cristo Rei statue at Almada, near Lisbon.
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