Jdf4cheval wrote:

My subscriptions are coming due on some of my aviation periodicals.
Any recommendations for journals to keep current on world military
aviation? I'll keep AWST, but find the UK magazines fairly
expensive for the amount of information they provide - and I don't
need endless lists of serial numbers.


I occasionally read Combat Aircraft International, which has a US and a
European edition, but seems to focus on the US primarily. It has good
photography and often has articles focussing on aircraft (UC-12 in USN/
USMC service, for instance) or units (the USCG's new armed helicopter
for instance) that ordinarily don't get a lot of attention. Still, here
in the Netherlands it seems the issues appear months after their
original publishing date, which means that their `news' is often
somewhat old.
As for UK magazines:
There's Aircraft Illustrated, which also has nice photographs, but apart
from that seems to only have rather superficial content and deals both
with military aviation (primarily focussed on the UK) and civil
aviation. Not my favorite.
I really like Air international, which also deals with civil aviation,
but very often has good in depth articles about military developments.
Highly recommended in my opinion is Air Forces Monthly, which I've been
reading for about the last ten years. It's up-to-date and seems
well-informed with correspondents pretty much everywhere. If for some
reason I couldn't afford magazines anymore, Air Forces Monthly would be
the one I'd miss most.

Regards,
Ralph Savelsberg