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MONETARY BUDGET<br />
BOOSTS UK<br />
MANOEUVRES DEFENCE<br />
SPENDING – BUT<br />
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AEROSPACE<br />
19: How hybrid aircraft<br />
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DEFENCE<br />
24: Shows – still key<br />
tools of the trade<br />
SECURITY<br />
36: On guard with<br />
Rover the robo dog<br />
SPACE<br />
42: Launch of MOD's<br />
star performer<br />
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<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=13"> SPECIAL REPORT In his year-end review, ADS chief </a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=14"> ANNUAL REVIEW POINT industry as part of a wi</a>
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<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=16"> 310 million passengers a year fly safely thanks t</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=17"> FROM THE TOP Air Vice-Marshal Alastair Smith, com</a>
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<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=19"> FROM THE TOP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 Altho</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=20"> MILITARY Take down: A new Apache AH2 is guid</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=21"> SAVE 50% Become an RAF Museum Corporate Partner</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=22"> AEROSPACE Emission possible ...or impossible? El</a>
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<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=24"> Horstman 110 Years Horstman is a 110 year old mul</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=25"> AEROSPACE UNCREWS CONTROL Cre</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=26"> MILITARY CHARGE OF THE FLIGHT BRIGADE... The </a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=27"> DEFENCE There have never been so many trade </a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=28"> TRADE SHOWS Pole position: UK pavi</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=29"> DEFENCE </a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=30"> marshallgroup.com Supporting critical military o</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=31"> DEFENCE With the Strategic Defence Review pendin</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=32"> MILITARY WE 177 nuclear bomb. </a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=33"> DEFENCE </a>
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<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=36"> DEFENCE </a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=37"> SECURITY Security and Policing (S&P) is a highlig</a>
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<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=39"> SECURITY IT'S A DOG'S LIFE FOR A ROBOT A four-l</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=40"> TRAINING Recruitment and retention stubbornly rem</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=41"> TRAINING </a>
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<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=43"> The Home of AeroSpace Business 19 - 20 Ma</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=44"> SPACE The commercial space age holds great promis</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=45"> SPACE Steve Nichols looks at the top space stor</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=46"> ROUND-UP Main dish: Goonhilly Earth station br</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=47"> MY WORKING WEEK Caroline Bentley Marcelle Nethe</a>
<a title="ADVANCE December 2024 - February 2025 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/384030e2?page=48"> 11-13 MARCH 2025Farnborough International Exhibi</a>
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