The awesome September issue of CAM is about to hit the streets! Heres whats inside. CONTENTS Vol 15, No 9 September 2014 6 HEADLINE NEWS F-35 grounding order prevents international debut 12 US NEWS US Air Force Combat Rescue Helicopter contract awarded, Next-Gen bomber request for proposals and Mountain Home Strike Eagles receive new radar 20 EUROPE NEWS Eurofighter submits proposal to Denmark for new fighter and first serial production Il-38N is flown for the first time 24 WORLD NEWS Japanese stealth fighter formally revealed, Korean F-16s prepare for upgrade and F-15SGs on ‘Red Flag’ PLUS! Special reports on Farnborough International Air Show and Iraq’s Su-25 ‘Frogfoot’ deliveries plus Robert F. Dorr’s Front Line column and all the latest military Losses 30 FABULOUS ‘FITTERS’ IN THE UK The Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in July may have suffered from the no show by the F-35 Lightning II, however the attendance of three Polish Air Force Su-22 ‘Fitters’ made for a clear highlight amongst the participants as Jamie Hunter reports 32 EXERCISE REPORT: NATO TIGER MEET 2014 Bob Fischer reports as the NATO Tiger Squadrons gather at Schleswig-Jagel in Germany 34 RETURN OF THE AMOOZIN’ DOGPATCHERS While US Congress struggled with the decision to retire the entire US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II fleet, a former Air Force Reserve Command ‘Warthog’ squadron was resurrected. Rens van Rijn and Dennis Vink/PHODOCU visit the 47th Fighter Squadron ‘Dogpatchers’ 38 A-10: SHOULD IT STAY OR SHOULD IT GO? As the US Air Force says it needs to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II to save money, others say that it is a shortsighted move to save other programs. Jamie Hunter analyses the pros and cons of retiring the popular Warthog 42 ALL CHANGE AT HOLLOMAN Holloman Air Force has now lost its two ‘signature’ stealth warplanes, but it is now at the forefront of drone training and also home to the newly arrived F-16s of the 54th Fighter Group as Robert F. Dorr discovers. Exclusive images by Jim Haseltine 52 EXERCISE REPORT: RUSSIAN TOP GUN The final stage of the second edition of the ‘Aviadarts’ gunnery competition, involving all Russian Air Force branches, took place in the last week of May. Andrey Zinchuk and Alexander Mladenov were there to report 56 UNIT REPORT: THE JERSEY DEVILS The New Jersey Air National Guard’s 177th Fighter Wing, known as the ‘Jersey Devils’, has been flying jet fighters from Atlantic City’s airport for 56 years. Dr Richard Porcelli looks into how the unit operates and shows how the US taxpayer gets ‘more bang for the buck’ from the Air National Guard 64 UKRAINIAN HEAVYWEIGHTS The Ukrainian Air Force inherited a fleet of no fewer than 243 Su-24s — the second-largest ‘Fencer’ fleet in the world. Babak Taghvaee reports on the remnants of this once mighty force 68 AIR POWER REVIEW: FUERZA AÉREA ARGENTINA Once one of the most powerful air arms in Latin America, the Argentine Air Force has suffered from years of budget cuts and poor planning as Santiago Rivas details 74 THE LONGHORNS AND THE SIERRA The reliable MH-60S makes an excellent search and rescue aircraft. Ted Carlson/Fotodynamics joins the ‘Longhorns’ of Air Operations Department Fallon and their trio of ‘Sierras’ 78 EXERCISE REPORT: TURKISH DELIGHT Derek Bower visits exercise ‘Anatolian Eagle’ with the latest exercise seeing the addition of Qatar with its Mirage 2000-5s 82 PILOT PROFILE: CF-18 DEMONSTRATION TEAM Stuart Sanders meets Capt Adam ‘Manik’ Runge, this year’s Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CF-18 Demonstration Pilot 86 PROWLER FINALE Rich Cooper and Steve Comber embark the USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) to witness the US Navy EA-6B Prowler now embarked on its last ever cruise with VAQ-134 ‘Garudas’ 96 CUTTING EDGE Combat Aircraft’s monthly column reporting from the front line of aerospace technology, by David Axe
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