The intervention of the Air Force was carried out by an HH139A helicopter from the 82nd SAR Center of Trapani. The air rescue carried out with an HH17-A helicopter from the 139nd SAR Center (Search and Rescue) of Trapani. The intervention allowed the urgent medical transport of a 82-year-old man suffering from [...]
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With a final act a few hours ago in Japan between Italy, England and Japan, the construction and development of the sixth generation aircraft which should be delivered to the armed forces by 2035 is finally underway. The season of sixth generation that will fly at supersonic speeds [...]
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Germany recently approved its budget, thus starting, as far as the Defense sector is concerned, the technological upgrade of 15 Eurofighters. Airbus itself confirmed the news by announcing the upgrade of its fighter aircraft to electronic warfare. The aircraft will therefore be equipped with an advanced localization and self-protection system for [...]
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The event took place at the Air Force Academy in the presence of the Undersecretary of State for Defense, the Honorable Matteo Perego of Cremnago. It took place this morning in Pozzuoli, at the Air Force Academy, in the presence of the Undersecretary of State for Defense, the Hon. Matteo Perego of Cremnago, the traditional inauguration ceremony of the 2023-2024 Academic Year of the Training Institutes […]
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Saudi Arabia is trying to become a partner in the consortium of nations that are funding the new generation fighter project called GCAP - Global Combat Air Program. Last December Italy, the United Kingdom and Japan decided to join the efforts of their defense industries to build the fighter of the future, the fighter [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) In the world of military aviation, the search for new generation fighters is a constant commitment. One such project that has gained significant attention is the US Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. With advances in technology and the evolution of threats, the American Defense seeks to maintain its superiority [...]
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A Falcon 50 aircraft from the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force landed a few minutes ago at Milan Linate airport. The plane, which took off from Ciampino, carried out the emergency medical transport of only three-month-old twins on the Cagliari-Milan route, in imminent danger of life. The two children, previously hospitalized at the Monserrato University Hospital "Duilio Casula" [...]
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Should a powerful response be given to Russia? NATO takes care of it, organizing an impressive air exercise from 12 to 24 June, the largest in its history, in which 24 nations will participate, involving ten thousand men and two hundred and twenty aircraft. The United States alone will field XNUMX US Air National Guard personnel and XNUMX aircraft. […]
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General Pasquale Preziosa, former head of the Air Force and today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory spoke this afternoon to TGCOM24 on the crisis in Ukraine. The general analyzed the recent "dense" and "intense" Russian missile activity, specifying that the Patriot defense system worked (according to reports from the Ukrainians) against the dreaded Khinzal [...]
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Advanced medical posts, refugee management, search and rescue at sea, combating cyber attacks and illicit trafficking: 14 training events scheduled until 28 May Advanced medical posts of the Italian Red Cross to help the wounded, activities aimed at combating smuggling, cyber operations, displaced persons management, refugee evacuation, checkpoints to deal with illicit trafficking [...]
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From 6 May it will be possible to visit the areas of what was once the Superior Studies and Experiences Directorate, one of the first and most advanced research and development centers for flight experiments and a testimony to the role of Guidonia airport since the dawn of Regia Aeronautica Among the initiatives related to the celebrations [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Putin's propaganda in support of the special military operation in Ukraine is centered on historical reasons, dating back to the empire of Peter the Great and on the narrative of the dangerous enlargement of NATO to Russia's borders. of NATO towards Russia is a thesis studied by many international observers and analysts who, [...]
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How to render the Starlink satellite network harmless in order to interrupt communications between soldiers in Ukraine? Simple, use a sophisticated system that prevents sending data and images to the earth. Thus Moscow is allegedly experimenting with an innovative weapon system, called Tobol. This was revealed by the WP after viewing a secret US intelligence report. The […]
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Protected by the thermal cradle, the newborn was transferred with a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing of the Ciampino Air Force. The life-saving flight with a newborn of just 18 days on board ended in the early afternoon of today who, in imminent danger of life, was urgently transported from Cagliari to Ciampino (RM) with [...]
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Air Secretary Frank Kendall told House lawmakers at the FY 2024 filing that the March 13 test of a hypersonic weapon "had not been a success." For this reason, Lockheed Martin's AGM-183A – ARRW – Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon – program may not have a future. […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) So Zelensky spoke remotely at the security conference in Munich: "We are all David against Goliath. David is the whole free world. Freedom is a value in all parts of the world. And there is no alternative to Goliath's defeat and our victory. Being David means fighting, Ukraine is a […]
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The F-35 Joint Program Office has grounded some new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters following an incident Dec. 15 when an aircraft went down on a runway in Texas. The pilot managed to eject. In a statement released yesterday to Defense News, the F-35 Joint Program Office confirmed that it had stopped some F-35s without [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Space is increasingly sought after by the superpowers every day because it is considered essential for military operations, not only in the defensive phase, for the detection and tracking of missiles, but also in the offensive phase, for geolocation, navigation, identification of targets and detection/control of military activities in general. China, United States […]
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The search continues, both from the ground and with an HH139 helicopter of the Trapani Search and Rescue Center, for the pilot of the Eurofighter single-seat fighter of the 37th Stormo of Trapani, who crashed due to currently unknown causes during the return phase to the mother base from a training mission. Work is underway to limit the impact area […]
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Adolfo Urso, fresh from his mandate on space, took part in the ESA ministerial meeting in Paris last Tuesday together with the representatives of the European governments to shore up the strategies and investment programs for aerospace policies for the next three years. A new challenge, space, is attracting the countries that more than the others are investing resources and […]
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The Open Sea exercise begins today, the second annual edition of the largest training event of the Navy, which will involve forces belonging to 5 NATO nations including ships and submarines, aircraft, helicopters, in addition to the amphibious departments of the Marina San Marco Brigade, the raiders and COMSUBIN divers. At sea, under the surface of the sea, in the air and [...]
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The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) hosts the “Pitch Black” air drill, a type of large-scale training with 16 other nations including the United States, Great Britain and France. The exercise, which will last until 8 September, foresees the participation of over 100 military aircraft engaged in thousands of combat scenarios conducted by [...]
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The President Angelo Vallerani: "Lombard companies are ready to take up the challenge of developing new enabling technologies for the next generations of aeronautical systems" "Lombard aerospace companies have always been present, playing a leading role, in all phases historical aeronautics. We have helped build at least one piece of each [...]
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The COCER believes “it is necessary to review law 244 as a whole, adapting it to the new international reality and inserting it into a new defense model. The model that is already ready in the drawers of the Ministry of Defense is the 170.000 unit model, which was the one considered balanced before the 'Di Paola' law provided for the [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Moscow has announced that for the first time in Ukraine it has used the Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability that are launched by a modified Mig-31. It is one of the six "next generation" weapons cited by Putin in his speech on March 1, 2018. A demonstration to the world that hypersonic technology [...]
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After the White House warning of the imminent dispatch of troops to Eastern Europe, the Ukrainian chief of staff called for calm. He was echoed by Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov who, in front of parliament, said: "There is no need to pack up, to date, there is no reason to believe [...]
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Yesterday, the Russian state aviation authority - Rosaviatsia - reported that a Russian Aeroflot airliner flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change altitude over the Black Sea because a NATO CL-600 reconnaissance plane flew crossed its route. The state airline said that [...]
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According to a report, released last Sunday by the Wall Street Journal, the Taliban managed to seize power in a very short time last summer, according to a well-studied plan that involved the use of a vast network of intelligence agents and agents sleepers located in the main Afghan cities. Such personnel, loyal to the Taliban, were wisely infiltrated [...]
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The emergency medical transport in favor of a newborn was carried out on board a Falcon 50 of the Italian Air Force It was a Falcon 50 of the 31 ° Stormo dell'Aeronautica Militare the aircraft that transported a newborn with extreme urgency last night of only 8 days of life from Alghero to Rome. The small […]
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Defense training course organized by the Operational Command of Vertice Interforze and by the National Commission for the Diffusion of the DIU The 8th Course in International Humanitarian Law for the training of International Operators, pursuant to art. 12 of Additional Protocol I [...]
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The Falcon 900 of the 31 ° Stormo landed in Linate during the night, for the subsequent transfer of the patient to the Niguarda A 31-year-old man suffering from severe respiratory insufficiency and in imminent danger of life was transported in the night with a Falcon 900 of the Air Force from Brindisi to Milan, for subsequent hospitalization [...]
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Two German Air Force pilots begin Phase IV flight training on the T-346A aircraft. The German pilots are added to those from Qatar, who have already started the last step of the advanced flight training (Advanced / Lead-In to Fighter Training) at the Italian flight school The International Flight Training School (IFTS) continues to welcome new visitors: [...]
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The Ministry of Defense has announced the approval of the Defense Multiannual Planning Document (DPP) for the three-year period 2021-2023. The DPP is an important programmatic reference used by the head of the Dicastery to illustrate to Parliament the expenditure forecasts for the next three years. Thus the minister, Lorenzo Guerini commented on the approval of the important document: "The Programs of [...]
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“Italy arrived late on the topic of cybersecurity”, the comment of the Delegated Authority for the security of the Republic Franco Gabrielli at the hearing of the Constitutional Affairs and Transport commissions of the Chamber. The next step is the conversion into law of the decree that regulates the Agency. In this regard Gabrielli specified: "We can no longer afford to waste time on an issue that may not [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Western intelligence agencies are certain that the new global crises will come from Africa where terrorist violence is renewing with the birth of many "caliphates" while the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other militias exploit the withdrawal of foreign troops to reorganize. After years of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, [...]
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The commitment of the Armed Forces both at home and abroad continues, even during the Christmas holidays. In fact, there are about 7800 soldiers of Operation Safe Roads employed on the national territory for the garrison, in competition with the police forces, of sensitive targets, places of worship, railway and subway junctions of the Italian cities to which [...]
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The baby was hospitalized at the "Gaslini" Pediatric Hospital in Genoa. Last night a five-day-old baby in imminent danger of life was rushed from Catania to Genoa, aboard a 900st Falcon 31 plane. Flock of the Air Force, to be hospitalized in the “Gaslini” hospital. The baby was embarked [...]
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The program of the Stovl component, with vertical take-off of the F-35 "aircraft, is intended to replace two flight lines of the Italian Air Force (AMX and TORNADO, about 200 aircraft) and the embarked flight line of the Italian Navy (AV8B) which have already completed or are nearing the end of their operational life. In particular, the decision [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) "Scholars have been warning decision makers for years: 'Pandemics are real threats to humanity" but decision makers are always found unprepared and people do not follow them ". Thus wrote in an article published by Eurispes, Pasquale Preziosa former head of the Italian Air Force and today President of the Observatory on Security. To resume [...]
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This morning at 07.00 at the military airport of Pratica di Mare, the KC-767A aircraft of the Italian Air Force landed, coming from China, which brought back to Italy the last of our compatriots who asked to return to Italy. Unlike the other two flights, with which Italian citizens were transported from [...]
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The opinion of General Pasquale #Preziosa on the hypersonic # is authoritative. The article by the former head of the # Aeronautica Militare globally analyzes this new and disruptive strategic weapon, whose effects on future inter-state balances are only imaginable and difficult to predict. In 2014 a first symposium was held in Italy from which it emerged that the hypersonic would have a [...]
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The Armed Forces, from 11 to 13 October next, will be present at the Foro Italico as part of the 9th edition of the "Tennis and Friends" event - Health and Sport ... Sport is Health, the weekend entirely dedicated to health, with the aim to promote a correct lifestyle, an early diagnosis and allow all citizens [...]
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Agreement between the Italian Air Force and Virgin Galactic The first contract between the Italian Air Force and Virgin Galactic for the purchase of a suborbital scientific research flight was signed today at the Italian Embassy in Washington. The flight will depart from the New Mexico Spaceport in the US in December 2020. To sign [...]
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The Chinese Air Force has made public a photo of the stealth fighter, J-20 which has become, as some Chinese analysts claim, a military fighter already operational for the defense of the country. The existence of the aircraft is nothing new as it was already known, however the photo released last week shows a J-20 with the number [...]
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Regarding the article published this morning in Il Fatto Quotidiano, entitled "The Air Force has 4 aircraft at risk, but they still fly" by Toni De Marchi, the Air Force intends to affirm, with absolute firmness, that the four Boeing KC-767A on line at the 14 ° Stormo of Pratica di Mare - as well as all the aircraft of the [...]
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A man and a girl in danger of life were transported today, within a few hours of each other, to two different hospitals in Lazio. Double life-saving intervention in the afternoon of today, January 30, for the Air Force aircraft. The first saw the activation of an HH139 helicopter from the 85th Research Center and [...]
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Protected in a thermal cradle, the little patient was transported with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo A newborn of just one day in imminent danger of life due to a serious illness was transported urgently in the early hours of this afternoon from Cagliari to Ciampino on board a plane [...]
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The Falcon 16 aircraft of the Italian Air Force landed in Florence shortly after 00:50 today, transporting a thirteen-year-old girl in imminent danger of life from Catania. The request for transport, as it happens in these cases, was received by the Prefecture of Messina at the Situation Room at the top of the Squad Command [...]
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A vast military exercise carried out by the Chinese Air Force has concluded, which saw aircraft engaged in the China Sea and the Western Pacific after crossing the southern islands of Japan. China is carrying out an ambitious program of modernization of military, naval and air vehicles, directed and supervised by President Xi Jinping. In [...]
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From 9 January the recruitment campaign for 81 Officer Students at the Aeronautical Academy is open. Applications for participation may be submitted within 30 days from the day following the publication of the announcement in the Official Gazette, 4th Special Series. The competition is open to Italian citizens who have completed the seventeenth year of age [...]
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The Puglia Region is keeping up with the times and has decided to allocate an extraordinary contribution of 400.000 euros aimed at the recognition by the National Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) of the 'Superior technician for aircraft maintenance' training course of the 'ITS Aerospazio Puglia di Brindisi, for the purpose of issuing the Aeronautical Maintenance license [...]
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Italy, like every year, celebrates November 4th, with an edition dedicated to tradition and novelty. This morning at the ceremony held at the Altare della Patria in the presence of the President of the Republic and the Minister of Defense, in addition to many citizens there were also about 3 soldiers from all the Armed Forces and from the Guardia di Finanza with joint bands, with their respective Flags [...]
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