Combat Aircraft’s August issue features a true world exclusive as editor Jamie Hunter reports from Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates, home of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing. Here the US Air Force runs operations in support of Central Command, currently including F-22 Raptors. This issue features exclusive images from a combat mission over Syria, plus interviews with all the key figures in this important wing.

The issue also details the return of the first British F-35Bs to RAF Marham in June, an amazing photo report on the Colombian Air Force’s AC-47 ‘Fantasma’ gunships, incredible images from the NATO Tiger Meet, the F-102’s unsung efforts in Vietnam, the first of a two-part series on Russian Aerospace Forces tactical bombers and an incredible report from the Russian ‘Aviadarts’ air combat exercise.