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OPS REPORT: HERCS HEAD EAST Beginning a four-month combat deployment, the 19th Airlift Wing routed across Europe from its home at Little Rock AFB as Peter R. Foster reports
SPECIAL REPORT: USAF FOCUS ON THE FUTURE - Gen Charles Brown, the new US Air Force Chief of Staff, is focused on plans to increase squadrons and keep programs on track, as Jamie Hunter details
BOMBER TRIAD FLEXES ITS MUSCLES Jamie Hunter details how US Air Force strategic bombers are demonstrating a new approach to global operations
GUARDIANS OF THE LAST FRONTIER - PARTONE - Rich Cooper heads to Alaska to meet the personnel of the US Coast Guard, flying in some of the most demanding conditions on the planet
FROM RUSSIA WITH COMBAT HELICOPTERS - Piotr Butowski looks at how the Mi-28N overcame many hurdles before it finally emerged as the capable attack helicopter we know today
BIG SHOT:'AMERICA STRONG' - The US Air Force and US Navy has combined its respective Thunderbirds and Blue Angels flight demonstration teams for a series of spectacular flypasts — known as'America Strong'
SICILIAN PREDATORS - Peter ten Berg reports from Sigonella on the operations of the MQ-1 Predators that are based here and primarily tasked with patrolling the Mediterranean waters
LAST CALL FOR MARINE RESCUE - Joe Copalman joins the end of operations event for MCAS Yuma's search and rescue flight, which marks the end of an era for the US Marine Corps
SUPER HORNET AND GROWLER
20 TRAINING THE EXPERTS - Joe Campion joins VFA-122 'Flying Eagles'— a huge squadron dedicated to training new Super Hornet air and ground crews to man the backbone of US Navy strike fighter operations
NEW LIFE FOR OLD 'RHINOS' - Michael Keaveney visits one of Boeing's Service Life Modification (SLM) facilities for the Super Hornet, which is breathing new life into the oldest airframes, with a plan to concurrently add new capabilities
MAINSTAY - RUSSIA'S EYES ON HIGH - Alexander Mladenov details how the Beriev A-50 is one of the most important assets in the Russian military.The small fleet is operating at a high tempo, including the ongoing Russian campaign in Syria
STINGRAY - A CARRIER AVIATION REVOLUTION - The US Navy's nascent MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial vehicle promises to be one of the biggest ever evolutions in carrier aviation, as Mark Ayton explains
MOODY'HAWGS' - Active-duty A-10C Thunderbolt II units are few and far between in the US Air Force. Henkde Ridder visits the 23rd Fighter Group at Moody AFB, Georgia, and underscores why the A-10 remains a potent close air support aircraft that is here to stay
SAAB'S NEW FIGHTER RADAR - Swedish defense giant Saab has unveiled a brand new fighter radar that has a range of potential applications, as Jamie Hunter explains
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 a pair of F-4G Phantom Ils

ON THE COVER - In this issue, discover all the latest news on the Boeing Super Hornet, illustrated here by an F/A-18F from VFA-122 at low level in California.