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Special Report
The S-3 Viking soldiers on as LANTIRN gives it a new lease of life

NEW FEATURE: From the Hotseat
A new feature from the inside of military aviation, written from the cockpit, out on the range, from the carrier deck or, in this case, from the boomer’s window…

Front Line
Robert F.Dorr looks behind the military aviation headlines in our hard-hitting regular column

Poland’s new fighter
Who operates NATO’s most advanced F-16s? Surprisingly the answer is the Polish AF, as Jan Kowalski reveals

‘Flanker’ Force
Venezuela has become the first nation in the Americas to operate the most sophisticated Russian combat aircraft - the Sukhoi Su-30MK2

Coast Guard Flagships
Ted Carlson/Fotodynamics shoots the US Coast Guard’s new pair of VIP transports

RARE COLOR: Fortress Missions
Lt Albert T. Keeler, a Flying Fortress copilot, talks to Warren Thompson about two especially memorable missions he flew over Europe. PLUS! Rare WW2 color

Life at the top
Combat Aircraft meets the US Air Force’s chief of staff,Gen T.Michael ‘Buzz’ Moseley. Report by Robert F.Dorr

Raptor Flag
All eyes were on the performance of the F-22 Raptor as the world’s most advanced fighter made its Red Flag début… and did not disappoint as Maj Lawrence Spinetta, USAF, reveals. Editor Richard Cooper was there to shoot the action

COVER STORY: BRAC Attack
What is BRAC? What are its effects? Combat Aircraft brings you a complete round up of the changes transforming the USAF Reserve Force, as compiled by Tom Kaminski

One final spin
As part of our BRAC coverage, Greg L. Davis focuses on the 479th Flying Training Group as it prepares to leave Moody AFB

All change for the Grizzlies What has BRAC done to the ‘Grizzlie
s’? Frank B. Mormillo finds out

Sri Lanka’s Air Power
With exclusive air-to-air images and report by Rogier Westerhuis, Combat Aircraft outlines how the SLAF’s re-equipment program is already paying off in its fight against the Tamil Tigers

Aero India
East and West vie for Indian contracts, as Jim Winchester reports from Aero India

MiGs Reborn
Piotr Butowski gets beneath the skin of the most potent ‘Fulcrum’ fighters yet. PLUS! TWO CUTAWAYS

PHOTO GALLERY: Take Two
To mark the publication of his latest warbird book, John Dibbs selects six of his favorite formation images

Books
We give our verdict on the latest military aviation-related books

Products
DVDs and models are given the Combat Aircraft treatment