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EATURES a€ You want to land THERE?a€ Derek Bower explains how the Royal Air Force manages rough-field operations for its Hercules tactical transport aircraft and provides mobile air traffic control. Future Fleet Air Arm TOP GUNS Royal Navy fixed wing pilots are flying with the US and French navies. Lewis Gaylard explains why. COVER FEATURE: F-4F Pharewell They think ita€ s all over a€ it is now. After 40 years of service the German Air Force is about to retire the last of its McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom IIs a€" Gary Parsons reports from Wittmundhafen Air Base in Germany. F-35 International: Surviving Politics and Avoiding the a€~Death Spirala€ In spite of sequestration in the United States, those running the F-35 programme expect to bring down costs by selling the system to partner nationsa€ air forces for years to come. David C Isby investigates. AIRCRAFT PROFILE: BAE Hawk AJT BAE Systema€ s Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer carries the name and pedigree of one of the worlda€ s most successful trainer aircraft since the war, but, as AFMa€ s Jerry Gunner found out, todaya€ s Hawk is a bird of a very different feather. The Hog Trough One of the many units at Nevadaa€ s Nellis Air Force Base is the a€~Brown Birdsa€ of the 66th Weapons School a€" Gary Wetzel visited the squadron to find out about its vital role training US Air Force Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots. Warthogs a€" Extinct in Europe Hans Drost and Dick Wels report from Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany as the last US Air Force A-10s left Europe in May. End for Croatiaa€ s Fishbeds? Frank Noort and Stephan van den Krommenacker visited the MiG-21s of the Croatian Air Force to find out how long the veteran Fishbeds can keep going. Serbiaa€ s new Tigers Igor Salinger reports on the Serbian Air Forcea€ s first newly trained J-22 pilots in a decade. Boeinga€ s X-37B: the USAFa€ s Reusable Space Plane Like us, Blair Watson is intrigued by the US Air Forcea€ s X-37 project a€" just what is it all about? REGULARS Editorial Deployments and Contracts Attrition Feedback Letters and e-mails from readers. Force Report: Bulgarian Navy Robin Polderman visited Chaika to report on the countrya€ s all-helicopter naval air arm. Exercise Report: DACT 2013 Roberto YÃÃ
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