Air Power 2017

8 AIR POWER 2017 21 ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIPS

CONTENTS

FOREWORDS

15 Rt Hon Sir Michael Fallon MP
Secretary of State for Defence

21 Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier
KCB CBE DFC ADC MA RAF, Chief of the Air Staff

24 Harriett Baldwin MP
Minister for Defence Procurement

28 Paul Everitt
Chief Executive, ADS Group

ADDRESSING 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES

36 Future generation – explore, expedite, exploit

The RAF Rapid Capabilities Office ensures that the

RAF remains at the forefront of air power evolution

IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST –

AT HOME AND ABROAD

40 UK first and foremost

How RAF Eurofighter Typhoon fast jets provide

round-the-clock protection from potential air threats

42 Interview: Group Captain Paul Godfrey

As RAF Lossiemouth says goodbye to its last

Tornado fast jets, its Station Commander

talks about their replacements

EDITOR’S LETTER

29 Simon Michell
Editor, RAF Air Power 2017

PARTNER PERSPECTIVES

32 Lieutenant-General Michael Hood
Commander of the Royal Canadian Air
Force and Chief of the Air Force Staff

33 Major General Tonje Skinnarland
Chief of Staff, Royal Norwegian Air Force

35 General Tod D Wolters
Commander, US Air Forces in Europe,
Air Forces Africa, and Allied Air Command

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