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S NAVY MARITIME PATROL SPECIAL a€~WAR EAGLESa€ MAKE HISTORY With the career of the US Navya€ s aging Lockheed P-3C Orion approaching its end, the US Navy selected the Boeing P-8A Poseidon as its replacement aircraft. Brad Elward and Ted Carlson/ Fotodynamics talk with the first P-8A operational squadron, VP-16 a€~War Eaglesa€ , as it prepared for the Poseidona€ s debut fleet deployment FACT FILE: THE VERSATILE ORION Lockheeda€ s P-3 Orion is one of a handful of aircraft to have provided over 50 years of service to the US military. Ken Neubeck describes US variants with primary missions of maritime patrol, reconnaissance, anti-submarine warfare, and anti-surface warfare, as well as those adapted to meet the needs of other governmental and civilian organizations FEATURES A a€~FIRST DAY OF THE WARa€ HORNET As Boeing unveils findings from its Advanced Super Hornet test flights at the companya€ s St Louis, Missouri, facility, Brad Elward profiles the latest advances made to the a€~Super Buga€ TAIWANESE AIR POWER Mark Rourke reports from Taiwan, with a rare photo feature on some of its most important air bases LONG-RANGE STRIKE BOMBER Lockheed Martin and Boeing have forged a partnership to compete for the Long- Range Strike a€ Bomber (LRS-B), the new heavy bomber the US Air Force regards as among its top priorities. Robert F. Dorr reports BACK FROMTHE BRINK: IRANIAN a€~FITTERSa€ More than 20 years after the arrival of 40 Iraqi Air Force Su-22 a€~Fittersa€ in Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force now plans to bring at least two squadrons of the swing-wing fighter-bombers into service, as Babak Taghvaee reveals EXERCISE REPORT: CRIMEAN WAR GAMES Alexander Golz covers the Ukrainian Air Forcea€ s large-scale exercise this year, an event that once again drew front-line units to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: THE F-22 AND THE IRANIANS It was the first encounter between an F-22 Raptor and a potential adversary. It happened in a tense, high-stakes situation where a confrontation easily could have escalated into conflict. Robert F. Dorr investigates the much-hyped incident I TALIAN TORNADOS FACE THE FUTURE Mathias GrÃÃ
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