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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The open sea exercise 3 (MA22), the largest training event of the Italian Navy, began in the Mediterranean on 22 May. In the next three weeks, more than 4.000 women and men from 7 NATO nations and over 65 ships, submarines, aircraft and helicopters, will operate between the Adriatic, the Ionian, the Tyrrhenian and the Channel [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) In the middle of the Mediterranean on November 21st our Armed Forces participated in an important and exclusive exercise, reserved only for those who are now able to integrate their capabilities, thanks to modern weapon systems and fully interoperable. The aircraft carrier of the British Navy Queen Elizabeth and the [...]
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El Pais revealed the sanctions that European countries would be discussing in the event of an invasion of Ukraine by Moscow. The plan will be dealt with in full tomorrow in Brussels at the meeting of EU foreign ministers. We are talking about the complete closure of European capital markets for Russian companies and financial institutions, and [...]
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The British newspaper The Sun revealed the mystery about the crashed F-35B just after taking off from the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. ascertained that the rain cover has not been removed, as expected before take-off. The plane was [...]
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(by Mario Galati) On the deck of the porti Cavour the day before yesterday were present the Chief of Staff of Defense, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Enrico Credendino, the Chief of Staff of the Aeronautics, Air Squad General Luca Goretti and the operational commanders of the Navy and Air Force. [...]
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The day before yesterday, November 17, an F-35B of the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth crashed in the Mediterranean, in international waters. Thus, in a note from Her Majesty's Ministry of Defense: “A British pilot of HMS Queen Elizabeth F-35B was ejected during routine flight operations in the Mediterranean this morning. The pilot is [...]
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(by Mario Galati) Even Tom Kington on Defense News spoke from the other side of the world, from the United States, of the "querelle", which is affecting the Italian Navy and Air Force: the object of the dispute is the F-35B, that vertical take-off. The timing of the article makes you smile considering the appeal of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Alberto Rosso, who spoke at the hearing at the IV [...]
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US officials confirmed to the MIlitary Times that the Marine Corps fighter F-35B successfully conducted the first combat mission over Afghanistan. The F-35Bs, assigned to the thirteenth unit, according to a statement released by the Central Command of the US naval force, were engaged on Thursday morning against a fixed target [...]
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The first F-35B assembled outside the United States landed yesterday at the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Maryland (USA), after completing the Atlantic crossing from Cameri Military Airport. The fifth generation aircraft, delivered to the Italian Navy last January 25 at the FACO (Final Assembly and Check Out) plant in [...]
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