Gloom Forever .......................................................................................... 2Dennis-P. Merklinghaus

Opinion- Is the Fourth Estate Revolting? ........................................................... 4

Tim Mahon- Poland Wants US Troops on its Soil and Plans Fourth Division ..... 5

Robert Czulda

Industrial Focus ........................................................................................ 6MONS Gear Box ...................................................................................... 13

Attack Helicopter Update - Attack Helicopters ............................................................................... 14

Jon Lake- Russian Combat Helicopters: Production and Capabilities .......... 16

Dr. Eugene Kogan- Attack Helicopter Survey .................................................................... 20

Jon Lake

Regional Overview: Arab States of the Gulf Fighter and LIFT Modernisation in the Middle East ........................... 23Alan Warnes

Regional Overview: ASPAC - Spotlight on Indonesia - Indonesian Modernisation Plans:

Boosting the Country’s Impact on the Region ................................ 31Marco Giulio Barone

- Indonesian Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) ............... 56Andrew White

FeatureThe Value of NATO in the 21st Century ............................................... 36Theodor Benien

The Security Compendium 7th Edition - From Salisbury to Syria: The Year of the Chemical Weapon ........ 37

Andy Oppenheimer- Less Lethal – No Less Important ....................................................... 40

Brian Kindamo - Protective Armour Review: Advancing Armour ............................... 43

Peter Donaldson- Protective Armour Review:

Materials – Personal and Vehicle Armour Developments .............. 47Malcom Phillips

- Protective Armour Review: Passive/Active Defence Protection ... 50 Robert Czulda

- Cyber Review: Fusion Concept ......................................................... 54Brian Kindamo

Company Snapshots Opening Up to New Frontiers .......... 28Interview with Sedef Vehbi, Board Member of Al Jasoor Heavy Vehicle Industries andSerdar Görgüç, CEO of Otokar

Thirty Years of Roketsan ............................................ 60Interview with Hüdai Özdamar, Director of Market Development & Corporate Communications, Roketsan

Special Forces Feature Indonesian Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) .................. 56Andrew White

C4I ForumThe Blame Game: Faulty IFF protocols to blame for Russian IL-20M loss? .................. 63Dr. Thomas Withington

From the BridgeThe Beach is Just a Phase Line: Mobility and Manoeuvre for Amphibious Assaults ............................ 64Stephen Miller

Turkish Defence & Aerospace Industry News Roundup Turkey and the S-400 TRIUMF .............................................................. 66Kublai Han

Masthead ................................................................................................. 9Technology – The Final Frontier ......................................................... 62 Dispatch from the Tactical Communications World ........................ 58 News ................................................................................................. 10, 70Index of Advertisers.............................................................................. 70Military Component Market Overview ............................................... 71Epilogue ................................................................................................. 72

CoverAn AH-64 APACHE helicopter flies over Vaziani Training Area, Georgia during combined live-fire exercise on 15 August. (Photo: US Army/Sgt. Kris Bonet)

Small inserts on cover depict: A South Korean airman assisting with decontamination operations during the South Korea/US combined CBRN field training exercise at Daegu Air Base (Photo: USAF/Staff Sgt. Alex Fox Echols III); an Indonesian Armed Forces private providing security for his fellow Soldiers while they identify a potential threat as part of C-IED training, the focus of the field training exercise during Exercise Garuda Shield, 14 June 2018 (Photo: Spc. Elizabeth Cole, 9th Mission Support Command); and a Qatar Emiri Air Force MIRAGE 2000-5 fighter jet taking off from Souda Bay, Greece, on an “Odyssey Dawn” mission. (Photo: US DoD/Paul Farley, U.S. Navy)

Small insert in contents shows German snipers of the German “Seebataillon” aboard the Royal Netherlands Navy’s amphibious transport ship HR.MS. KAREL DOORMAN during Exercise “Schneller Adler 2018” on 3 September.(Photo: Mönch/Volker Schubert)

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