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NO ROOM FOR ERROR Transporting the President of the United States is an important job embraced by HMX-1, using its VH-3D or VH-60N helicopters. Ted Carlson flies with the specialised and immaculate fleet of this hard-working Marine Corps unit ECUADORIAN DELTAS The primary combat assets of the Ecuadorian Air Force comprise a mixture of IAI Kfir and Denel Cheetah fighters, with combat experience against Peru in 1995. Santiago Rivas reports on one of the most significant operators of the Mirage family MIGREMONT Alexander Golz and Thomas Newdick detail the MiGremont works in Ukraine, one of the most experienced facilities for the maintenance and upgrade of Sovietdesigned warplanes WARTHOG AT 40 Originally designed for the Cold War mission in Europe, the A-10 Thunderbolt II proved adaptable enough to take on combat roles in very different theatres of operations. Forty years after its first flight, Ken Neubeck looks back at a sometimes controversial programme GLORY DAYS: ITALY'S SPILLONE Fifty years ago the F-104 Starfighter entered service with the Aeronautica Militare Italiana, marking the start of an illustrious era in Italian military aviation, as Marco Rossi reminisces AIR POWER REVIEW: ISRAEL Giovanni Colla is granted privileged access to one of the most secretive and advanced air forces in the world - and details how Israel has been able to transform and renew its air arm FACT FILE - PAMPA RANGE Manolito Jaarsma visits the Belgian Air Force's Pampa air-to-ground bombing and gunnery range as it celebrates its 60th anniversary US COAST GUARD AIR POWER 2013 Tom Kaminski details the air power assets of the United States Coast Guard, the smallest of the United States' five armed forces PHROG MAFIA The CH-46 Sea Knight - universally known as the 'Phrog' - is an ageing workhorse for the US Marine Corps. Ted Carlson/Fotodynamics visits Camp Pendleton, one of the last CH-46 strongholds CUTTING EDGE Combat Aircraft's monthly column reporting from the front line of aerospace technology, by David Axe NEW YORK SKI HERCS The 109th Airlift Wing is unique among C-130 units as it routinely operates in some of the most extreme weather conditions, providing a lifeline for the National Scientific Foundation in Antarctica and Greenland, as Paul Giannico discovers. USAF News HEADLINE NEWS France targets terrorist groups in Mali, F-35B grounded and Turkey delays F-35 purchase US NEWS F-35 operational test report analysed, M-346 targets US trainer requirement and major US defence cuts are avoided UK NEWS National Audit Office report reviewed, UK pilots commence F-35B training EUROPE NEWS A400M appears in French colours, Sweden approves Gripen E and C-295 AEW flies with winglets WORLD NEWS BAE Systems sells Typhoons to Oman, first Indian C-17 flies, and Brazil tests new smart weapon
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