Military Specials

The popular US Navy & Marine Corps Air Power Yearbook returns with the 2023 edition providing a range of exclusive features on America’s mariti...

Aircraft carrier aviation – the art of flying combat aircraft off the deck of a ship for operations and landing back aboard afterwards – is now ove...

Updated and reprinted more than a decade after its original publication, this popular special celebrates Bristol’s versatile warrior, which flew fr...

Legendary but no longer in service, the A-6 Intruder was the US Navy and US Marine Corps' primary attack aircraft for 30 years. Grumman built near...

Originally published in 2014, this popular special examines the Luftwaffe of World War Two right from the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Th...

The term ‘strategic bomber’ is epitomised by the eight-engine B-52 Stratofortress. Even today, 71 years after its first flight, the B-52 is still t...

Affectionately known as the Warthog (or just plain ‘Hog’) the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is one of the most distinctive aircraft in the...

The United States Air Force plans to reduce from what it calls seven fleets of aircraft types to four – the F-15E/EX, F-16, F-35 and NGAD – which w...

Since its foundation in the late 1930s, more than 55,000 aircraft of over 400 sub-types have been produced by the MiG Design Bureau. From Artem Mi...

The Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps are among the world’s most modern and capable air arms, with proud traditions stretching back...

F-16 (Reissue/Update) The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multi-role fighter, developed and built in Fort Worth Texas by General Dynamics in the early 19...

Dambusters (617 Squadron) - 80th Anniversary (2013 Updated) On the 80th anniversary of the most famous Royal Air Force operation, Dambusters pays h...

Cold War Warriors (Warplanes On The Brink Of Global Conflict) - (Reissue 2014) The era from the Berlin Airlift of the late 1940s to 1989 when the p...

After Pearl Harbor and the US entry into World War Two, priority was given to the war in Europe and American forces poured into the ‘unsinkable air...

Turboprop aircraft tend to conjure up impressions of twin-engine regional airliners, perhaps epitomised by the ATR family of aircraft produced by t...

Among the most distinctive aircraft ever built, Bell Boeing’s V-22 Osprey tiltrotor combines the reach and speed of a turboprop transport aircraft ...

Until the advent of the heavy bombers - the Stirling, Halifax and Lancaster - the Vickers Wellington bore the brunt of Bomber Command’s onslaught o...

The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the aeroplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, co...

Since the first mass paratrooper drops of World War Two, airborne forces have developed a fierce reputation for bravery and fighting spirit. German...

This new special - brought to you by the Airfix Model World editorial team – explains everything you need to know about building one of Airfix’s ne...

Thailand is the latest nation to make an official request to the US government for the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter. Thailand follows a length...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent drawn out war in Europe’s southeastern corner has forced European air forces to rapidly reconfigure...

The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was one of the outstanding aircraft of World War Two, making a significant contribution to the Allied victory. Of m...

This year’s US Air Force Yearbook provides insight to all the US Air Force mission sets with coverage of fighter, special operations, transport, an...