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ABULOUS a€~FITTERSa€ IN THE UK The Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in July may have suffered from the no-show by the F-35 Lightning II, but the attendance of three Polish Air Force Su-22 a€~Fittersa€ made for a clear highlight among the participants, as Jamie Hunter describes EXERCISE REPORT: NATO TIGER MEET 2014 Bob Fischer reports as the NATO Tiger Squadrons gather at Schleswig-Jagel in Germany RETURN OF THE AMOOZINa€ DOGPATCHERS While Congress struggled with the decision to retire the entire US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II fleet, a former Air Force Reserve Command a€~Warthoga€ squadron was being resurrected. Rens van Rijn and Dennis Vink/PHODOCU visit the 47th Fighter Squadron a€~Dogpatchersa€ A-10: SHOULD IT STAY OR SHOULD IT GO? As the US Air Force says it needs to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II to save money, others argue that it is a short-sighted move to save other programs. Jamie Hunter analyses the pros and cons of retiring the popular a€~Warthoga€ ALL CHANGE AT HOLLOMAN Holloman Air Force has now lost its two a€~signaturea€ stealth warplanes, but it is now at the forefront of drone training and also home to the newly arrived F-16s of the 54th Fighter Group, as Robert F. Dorr discovers. Exclusive images by Jim Haseltine EXERCISE REPORT: RUSSIAN TOP GUN The final stage of the second edition of the a€~Aviadartsa€ gunnery competition, involving all Russian Air Force branches, took place in the last week of May. Andrey Zinchuk and Alexander Mladenov were there UNIT REPORT: THE JERSEY DEVILS The New Jersey Air National Guarda€ s 177th Fighter Wing, known as the a€~Jersey Devilsa€ , has been flying jet fighters from Atlantic Citya€ s airport for 56 years. Dr Richard Porcelli looks into how the unit operates and shows how the US taxpayer gets a€~more bang for the bucka€ from the Air National Guard UKRAINIAN HEAVYWEIGHTS The Ukrainian Air Force inherited no fewer than 243 Su-24s a€ the second-largest a€~Fencera€ fleet in the world. Babak Taghvaee Ã
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