Air Power 2017

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AIR

POWER

2017

21 ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIPS

Editor Simon Michell

Project Manager Group Captain James Beldon MBE,

Director of Defence Studies (RAF)

Editorial Director Barry Davies

Assistant Editor Emily Eastman

Art Director J-P Stanway

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Front cover image: Boeing P-8A Poseidon (© Brown Hills Photography/Chris Brown)

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