An independent report published today by Strategy&, part of the PwC network, revealed that the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft program has contributed very significantly to the economies of several countries in Europe. The report examines in detail the broad spectrum of development, production and technical support activities in the four partner countries: United […]
read more
Colonel Morelli leaves the command to Massara. Over 500 flight hours and more than 300 sorties for the Italian "Eurofighter" Typhoon fighters. General Figliuolo: "Demonstrated competence and value of the Italian Armed Forces" Constance, 8 April 2023. This week, at the Mihail Kogălniceanu airport in Constance, the change in command of the Task took place [...]
read more
Air defense: civil aircraft loses radio contact, the Eurofighters of the Italian Air Force intervene
The interception by the Eurofighters took off from the base of the 51 ° Stormo Caccia di Istrana. In the late afternoon of yesterday, Wednesday 12 October, a pair of Eurofighter interceptor fighter aircraft of the Italian Air Force, in alarm service, took off from the Istrana air base, home of the 51st Wing, to reach and identify a civil aircraft taken off from Malta [...]
read more
A weekend marked by intense operational activity for the Air Force crews. Transport, air rescue and air defense aircraft engaged On the morning of Saturday 24 September a KC767A of the 14th Wing took off from the military airport of Pratica di Mare for Pakistan, precisely to Karachi, to transport about 16 tons of material [... ]
read more
The third and fourth Eurofighter Typhoons destined for the Kuwait Air Force, part of a larger order of 28 aircraft destined for the country's Air Force, landed yesterday in Kuwait. The transfer flight of the new Eurofighters to Kuwait was made possible thanks to the support of our Italian Air Force, which [...]
read more
Leonardo, formerly responsible for the development and delivery of the ECRS Mk0 and Mk2 radars of the Typhoon, will also have a key role in the ECRS Mk1 program led by HENSOLDT, developing R&D activities, antenna, processor and other essential components for the sensor Leonardo has announced the signing of contracts for over 260 million euros with HENSOLDT, which [...]
read more
In the early afternoon of yesterday the F-2000 Eurofighter fighter aircraft of the Italian Air Force, in alarm service for the defense of the national airspace, carried out an intervention on the order of immediate take-off (in technical jargon called "scramble") to intercept and control a civil aircraft that had lost radio contact with the [...]
read more
Yesterday afternoon a Eurofighter Typhoon of the Spanish Air Force accidentally fired a missile into the airspace of Estonia during a NATO exercise. The Estonian army is looking for the remains of the AMRAAM type air-to-air missile in the air of the exercise in southern Estonia. The missile was carrying explosives up to 10 kilograms and the last time [...]
read more