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AFM’s opinion on the hot
topics in military aviation.24 Postcard from Myanmar
Aircraft from one of the world’s most
secretive air arms were photographed
by Hans Jacobs during a recent visit
to Yangon.40 Forever young
The Portuguese Air Force bucked the
training trend in the mid-1990s when it
returned seven old de Havilland Canada
Chipmunks to operational status.
These veterans are still performing
a vital task, as Stefan Degraef and
Edwin Borremans discover.44 Italy’s desert wind
The Italian Air Force’s versatile AMX fighter-
bomber is now found solely at Istrana air base,
in the north of the country. Roy van Sonsbeek,
Robin Coenders and Niels Roman visited the
home of the ‘Ghibli’ and the 51° Stormo.48 Polish Air Force at 100
AFM completes its review of the three Polish
air arms with an analysis of the air force in
its centenary year, as Bartek Bera and Filip
Modrzejewski examine the most significant force
to wear the famous red and white chequerboard.62 Future fi ghters
The market for manned fighter aircraft has
been estimated to be larger than at any time
since the end of the Cold War. Jon Lake looksSUBSCRIBE
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