HEADLINE NEWS - AARGM-ER flight-testing under way, more problems for KC-46 and first Super Hornet for the Blue Angels
NEWS - Our integrated news and analysis section includes a milestone V-22 Osprey delivery, plus all the latest unit news and military losses
READY ROOM - Rick Burgess explains the detail behind the headlines as the US Navy looks at new training aircraft
LIGHT ATTACK: ON HOLD ONCE AGAIN - US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) looked to be full ahead on a new light attack project, but Jamie Hunter reports on how the Senate Armed Services Committee put a halt to proceedings in June
LAST CRUISE FOR MARINE HORNETS - VMFA-323'Death Rattlers'is one of the US Marine Corps'most illustrious and important strike fighter squadrons. Joe Campion joined the unit as it was preparing for its final cruise with the F/A-18C
EAGLE TRAINING IN THE LAND OF NO SLACK - Jake Melampy travels to Klamath Falls, in the heartland of Oregon. This small town's airport at Kingsley Field is home to the 173rd Fighter Wing, part of the Oregon Air National Guard, and the one and only US Air Force F-15C training outfit
'FULLBACK' AT FULL THROTTLE! - The Sukhoi Su-34'Fullback'is now the principal all-weather tactical bomber of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Alexander Mladenov reports on the type's protracted development and how it is now in full production and gearing up for its first export orders
BIG SHOT: MARINES MASS LAUNCH - A mass launch of MV-22 Osprey tiltrotors by the US Marine Corps
REBUILDING THE FORGE - Our cover story for this issue, as Jamie Hunter details an Air Combat Command project to prove a new concept for training fighter pilots in a faster and more cost-effective manner
GUARDIANS OF THE LAST FRONTIER - PART TWO - In the second part of our feature from Rich Cooper in Alaska, meet the personnel of the US Coast Guard, who fly in some of the most demanding conditions on the planet
GLORY DAYS: COUGARS OVER THE A SHAU VALLEY - The US Marine Corps operated a handful of TF-9 Cougars in Vietnam, and they flew a remarkable mission with many incredible stories, as Joe Copalman details
SAVING THE A-10 - Senator Martha McSally — the first female US fighter pilot to fly into combat - talks to Thomas Newdick about her enduring connection with the A-lOThunderbolt II
GLORY DAYS: BUNKER BUSTERS - The Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk famously tackled targets in downtown Baghdad during Operation 'Desert Storm'. Warren Thompson talks to the USAF pilots who focused on Iraq's huge airfields and its seemingly impenetrable hardened aircraft shelters
A DECADE OF AUSTRALIAN 'RHINOS' - Nigel Pittaway details the Royal Australian Air Force's fleet of Boeing F/A-l 8F Super Hornet strike fighters and how they notched up 10 years of operational service on March 26, 2020
CUTTING EDGE - David Axe's column looking at the latest technological developments in military aerospace
FLASHBACK - Combat Aircraft Journal's trip down memory lane, this month it's an F-106 Delta Dart