Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini, on a visit to London, met with UK Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace. The meeting, after the one that took place on 11 June last aboard the Nave Cavour of our Navy, allowed the two defense chiefs to discuss the international situation "at 360 degrees" [...]
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The overflight of the National Aerobatic Team on the Monza racetrack will be carried out one week before the celebrations for the 60th Anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori. The now historic union between Formula 1 and the Air Force in Monza is renewed again this year. On Sunday 12 September, in fact, the 9 MB-339PAN aircraft of the main formation of the Frecce Tricolori will fly over the [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa - President of the Security Observatory - EURISPES) Overall, the Costs of War Project has estimated that 241 thousand people died as a result of the war in Afghanistan. Among them, over 2.400 members of the US armed forces and at least 71 civilians, as well as 78.000 Afghan soldiers and policemen and 84 fighters from insurgent groups. [...]
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The first Italian scientific suborbital mission will be presented in Rome on Thursday in Rome at the headquarters of the Air Force General Staff. Sixty years after the first suborbital flight carried out by the Mercury capsule, the joint initiative between [...]
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The last flight of the Italian Air Force for the humanitarian airlift between Afghanistan and Italy landed at Fiumicino airport, carrying 110 people, including 58 Afghans. Also on board the ambassador Pontecorvo, the consul Claudi and the carabinieri of Tuscania. Pontecorvo explained that 120 thousand people were taken away from the town and, now that [...]
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The difficult day in Kabul was marked by a series of explosions. The first at one of the airport gates where Afghan civilians are crowded, reported by CNN. It would be a suicide attack that resulted in the wounding of some civilians and numerous victims. Although the budget will tend to increase, at [...]
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Today 15 August 2021, on a day of celebration and rest for the Italians, our soldiers of the COVI (Operational Command of Vertice Interforze), appropriately supported by elements of the Army, will reach the Afghan capital aboard a KC767 of the Air Force and will have the task of directing and coordinating the return to the homeland of [...]
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The Spanish newspaper EL Pais reported the news of two Russian aircraft that flew in the skies of Lithuania, not far from the NATO air base in Šiauliai. By coincidence, the joint press conference between Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was taking place at that moment. The conference […]
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Who controls the Italian airspace? Who intervenes where the measures envisaged by international air traffic regulations have been violated? Not everyone knows that the sky above our heads is controlled for all 24 hours and 365 days a year by the Air Force. There is not even a second a day [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The US-China competition is global and every day reveals a strategic novelty in the different environments of confrontation, from the space to the economic one, from the geopolitical to the military positioning. In these days, writes The Times, the first images of a Chinese bomber have emerged, invisible to radar and capable [...]
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(by Mario Galati) In this month the bill S n. 650. on “Reorganization of the heads of the Ministry of Defense and related structures. Delegations to the Government for the revision of the operational model of the Armed Forces, in relation to the personnel of the Armed Forces, as well as for [...]
Read MoreTwo hundred soldiers, 20 land vehicles, 6 helicopters (four Mangusta). Italy is thus ready to strengthen its presence in the Sahel, fully joining the Takuba Task Force, which will be operational by the summer. The mission will be to support local security forces in contrasting the growing jihadist phenomena in the area between [...]
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“The political and military lessons identified for Afghanistan will serve for the new scenarios of operations in Africa. It is necessary to resort to history and its teachings, such as those inherited from the Roman Empire, which obtained security from threats from the south by strengthening the countries of North Africa “. Thus, on Formiche.net, General Pasquale PREZIOSA, former head of state [...]
Read MoreThe Air Force General Staff announced that on the occasion of the visit by Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini to Doha concluded a few days ago, in the context of which - among others - various issues concerning bilateral military and technical industrial cooperation were addressed between the two countries, an important technical agreement was signed between the Italian Air Force [...]
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