AirForces Monthly

DESIGNED FOR DESTRUCTION Shooting Down Unmanned Jets SUNSET SENTRY RAF Sentry retirement causes short-term AEW&C capability gap SWEDEN’S ISR ...

LIGHTNING OVER THE BALTIC Italian F-35As on Russia watch BUYING BIG Middle East air forces’ modernisation MERCENARY AVIATORS On patrol in Africa ...

DUTCH F-16 SWANSONG Orange Jumper testbed farewell ESCAPE FROM KABUL In-depth coverage of the vital airlift AFGHAN AIR POWER DEMISE 20 years to b...

HEADING INTO CHOPPY WATERS HMS Queen Elizabeth in South China Sea FIGHTING BACK IN ASIA Royal Australian Air Force Modernisation LEAVING AFGHANIS...

TRANSATLANTIC TRICKS US F-35s and Europe’s best fight it out GAZA UNDER SIEGE Israel’s 11-day campaign WARSAW’S WARRIORS Out with the old guard ...

HAIL THE HIND FIVE MORE YEARS FOR NATO’S COLD WAR GUNSHIP? VIGILANT ON ALL FRONTS BRAZILIAN AIRFORCE IN FOCUS FROM LIBYA TO SHADER RAF SENTINEL F...

AXED Tempest trumps all as Defence Review reshapes UK’s strategic ambitions ADIOS TO THE HERC AFTER 47 YEARS Spain bids C-130 goodbye EAGLES AND ...

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING The forecast for Israel’s Air Force SIZE MATTERS Belgium and Luxembourg’s awesome A400M Atlas FREEDOM FIGHTER Spain’s F-5 A...

PHANTOM MENACE Japan’s fearsome F-4EJs retire DESERT STORM 30 Ultimate Air Combat Guide BALKAN FORCE Montenegro’s factory-fresh Bell 412 EPIs LO...

RIPPER! RAAF Hornets shred Aussie skies MEGA MAKEOVER FOR CANADA’S AIR FORCE What is in store for the RCAF? OPERATION BACCARAT French Alps heli e...

Russian Stealth Sukhoi Su-57 super-fighter unleashed Survivors of Desert Storm Four legends still flying Europe’s Hornets The definitive guide D...

REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2020 • Key aircraft developments • Biggest news stories • Best reader photos • Military conflicts • Special schemes and squadron...

Warrior Spirit German Eurofighter is dressed to kill Inside Iran’s 747 Sqn A rare peek at Persia’s tankers Sukhoi S-70 Meet Russia’s next attack ...

Tornado Patrol How the Luftwaffe keeps flying in COVID conditions Il-78M Midas Beauty and a beast Aero L-39NG Albatros Trainer shaped by ex-Eurof...

F-35 SPECIAL ISSUE: 27 PAGES OF INSIGHT AND ANALYSIS Ultimate Weapon: What makes the F-35 Lightning II so formidable? ‘More like a Tesla’ USAF pi...

Long-Range Aviation Russia’s strategic bombers Singaporean air power Punching above its weight Wings of Gold Making naval aviators Italian Typho...

Plenty has changed since our last update on the Royal Jordanian Air Force in October 2018 and, for this month’s issue, AFM was granted an exclusive...

Anthony Pecchi’s extraordinary capture of an Uzbek Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot unleashing a salvo of S-24 heavy unguided rockets against a ground targ...

Last year marked Peru’s centenary of military aviation and February AFM pays tribute to the Peruvian Air Force with an extensive Force Report, incl...

The January 2020 issue is suitably ‘winter themed’ for our readers in the northern hemisphere, with a lead story on the new confrontation between R...

US air power old and new is at the forefront of the June issue of AFM, with the US Air Force’s Cold War-era B-52H strategic bomber gracing the cove...

As the Royal Air Force increases its frontline Typhoon squadron total to six - with No IX (Bomber) Squadron’s conversion to become an air defence u...

Cover star of November’s AFM is the F-5E Tigre III of the Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACh, Chilean Air Force) over the dramatic landscape of Patagonia....

Black Knights UK F-35B testers at Edwards Italy’s special ops Chinooks Elite heavy-lifters FLASHPOINT: Philippine Air Force at war FORCE REPORT...