AirForces Monthly – September 2019

The October 2019 issue

is on sale globally from

September 19, 2019.*

In the next issue, AFM takes

to the air with the M-346

advanced jet trainers of the Siły

Powietrzne (Polish Air Force),

the replacement for the ancient

TS-11 Iskra, which entered

service back in 1964. With the

new Leonardo aircraft – officially

known in Poland as the Bielik,

or white-tailed eagle – the air

force has a trainer suitable for

providing frontline pilots to fly

the F-16C/D Block 52+ fighter,

likely to be joined in future by

the F-35 Lightning II.

Coming up

in AFM

*UK scheduled on-sale

date. Please note that

overseas deliveries are

likely to be after this date.

Photo: Riccardo Niccoli

Next

Issue

Other forthcoming

features include:

• Swedish Air Force shapes up
  for new threats


• Kawasaki P-1 – Japan’s
  sophisticated sub hunter


• Saving lives in the US Marine
  Corps’ last ‘November Hueys’


• Odessa Aircraft Plant – exotic
  hardware at the Ukrainian repair
  and overhaul specialist

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