Through a complex logistical operation, the Air Force will deploy multiple assets in Japan for training activities, including four F-35 aircraft. The joint exercise will take place from 4 to 8 August at the Japanese Komatsu air base will see Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force aircraft train together on different tasks in an operational scenario. For […]
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Scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday 17 and Sunday 18, the Airshow organized by the Air Force at the M. De Bernardi Airport to celebrate its first 100 years. The two-day event that will keep adults and children looking up is almost there now. An unmissable event that will allow you to admire historic and new generation aircraft, visit exhibition areas and assist […]
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The South China Morning Post reported the result of an astonishing AI test in an attempt to simulate a hypersonic air battle, offering innovative tactics to win air combat at the speed of Mach 11. To defeat the enemy in air combat, the hypersonic aircraft should move forward and launch missiles backwards, according to the simulation [...]
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Joint training for personnel and 5th generation fighters of three nations The Falcon Strike international joint exercise, organized by the Air Force, began on November 14 and will end on November 25, the objective of which is to consolidate tactics, techniques and procedures in field of air defense. The military airport of Amendola, headquarters of the 32nd Stormo, [...]
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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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(by Andrea Pinto) The Italian surface-to-air defense, ensured by #Aspide missiles is now 40 years old and will end its operational cycle at the end of 2020. The staffs had, wisely, foreseen a budget of about 545 million spread until 2031 , for a new integrated and interoperable weapon system. Defense Minister Elisabetta #Trenta [...]
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The US Intelligence Community (IC) is moving at lightning speed to leverage the benefits of migrating its networks to the cloud to enable faster data consolidation, wider access to sensitive information, and network integration significant from an operational point of view. Working closely with [...]
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The US Air Force can write, among its pages of history, the name of the first female test pilot of the F-35 Lightening, Major Rachael Winiecki of the 461st Flight Test Squadron, at Edwards Air Force Base in California . Winiecki, with a touch of pride, commented on the finish line saying that female figures already exist, on the line, between [...]
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Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (Iai) has launched a new production line for the outer wing of the fifth-generation F-35 fighter to make the aircraft invisible to radar. "The launch of a new production line significantly improves technological capabilities, automation and robotics, and will allow the company to establish itself as a [...]
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The head of the executive, Giuseppe Conte, said during the press conference at the end of the year that “our soldiers are a flag of Italy. They operate effectively, and with appreciation, abroad, and stand out for humanity in their relations with local communities. I want to extend an affectionate hug to all of them, my personal, my government, all of Italy, [...]
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The Chief of Staff AM announced the achievement of the important milestone in Amendola, on the occasion of the media-day of the 4th Flying Course of the Tactical Leadeship Program, the first with 5th generation aircraft "Today is an important day for the Air Force Military ", declared the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, air squad general Alberto Rosso, [...]
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500 million of the defense budget will be diverted to employment centers. Money to be found quickly because Deputy Prime Minister Luigi DI Maio wants to keep one of the electoral promises, that is to cut the funds to the defense department (F-35 in particular). At the general staffs they are working hard to give a tangible signal of the announced cuts. [...]
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The Press reports that the Pentagon has decided to temporarily stop the F-35 fleet, following the crash of a fighter on September 28 during a training session in South Carolina. The pilot then managed to save himself by jumping from the aircraft. A spokesperson for the F-35 program, Joe DellaVedova, explains that it is the US [...]
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Finally good news for the fifth generation F-35 super fighter program, reports it in a Defense News article. The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have reached an agreement for the eleventh batch of F-35s. Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta recently said she did not want to buy more and to lengthen the time [...]
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The international news agency Reuters has spread throughout the world the news that it is creating many problems for the international partners who, with Italy, participate in the most ambitious industrial program in the history of aviation, that for the fifth military super jet. generation F 35. The title used by the press agency is very [...]
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Lockheed Martin yesterday won a $ 1,4 billion contract to support the global F-35 venture for US military and international customers. According to Lockheed, the contract includes costs for: maintenance of the aircraft system; pilot and maintenance training; activation of a warehouse for spare parts; sustenance of engineering; support of [...]
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Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron had announced the birth of a series of joint projects, including a new fighter superjet. And tomorrow in Berlin, at the ILA, the International Aeronautics and Space Exhibition, the "next step" should arrive, according to what die Welt on line writes. "It does not have a name yet, it is defined as the sixth [...]
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The French Defense Minister, Florence Parly, received her German counterpart, Ursula von der Leyen today in Paris "to take stock of Franco-German cooperation" in the aeronautical sector. "Les Echos" writes it, underlining that the bilateral cooperation agenda set at the last Franco-German Council of Ministers should be maintained. The two ministers should [...]
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The examination made by Franco Iacch on Il Giornale.it about the very near future of modern aviation is very interesting. The UsAF is already planning the future, where fourth generation military aircraft will be sent to the rear to build critical mass. At the forefront of the fifth generation aircraft since those of the sixth generation, for now, [...]
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Japan is preparing to abandon domestic development projects for a new advanced fighter aircraft to replace the expensive F-2 fighter-bomber after 2030. In recent years, the Japanese Ministry of Defense had identified three alternatives to replace the expensive aircraft derived from the ' F-16, and developed independently by Japan with the help of thrusters [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) It is a question that many (even in Israel) are asking. The IAF does not clarify the reason ergo we can only rely on assumptions. Most likely, Israel had no reason to risk strategic assets, far from reaching operational maturity, against insignificant targets. The very powerful IAF that has [...]
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Japan is considering restructuring the Izumo aircraft carrier so that it can land U.S. stealth fighter-type F-35B fighters, government sources said, as Tokyo faces China's maritime expansion and North Korea's nuclear and missile development. Japan has never had a complete aircraft carrier after the defeat of the Second [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) “The depth of meaning of the moral question that we have under our eyes every day still eludes us”. Littizzetto says on her show that each F35 costs 100 million euros, and with four less we could build 2000 houses. Picchio news reports the monologue held by Littizzetto within the program “Stasera casaMika”. [...]
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The Israeli Air Force has its first female deputy commander of a fighter jet squadron. The commander-in-chief of the weapon, General Amikam Norkin, appointed her today, who also appointed two other women to top positions in the anti-missile system called the Iron Dome. The new deputy commander - whose name was not [...]
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After the controversy of the past few days on the tests of the F35 B aircraft, and on the announcement omitted by the Defense, the first test was finally successful yesterday. The first flight in short take-off and vertical landing mode of the first Italian F-35 in the 'Stovl' variant, assembled in the Cameri plant in Piedmont, took place "perfectly" yesterday. [...]
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Contrary to what has been read in some prestigious Italian newspapers, the first flight test with short take-off and vertical landing (Stovl mode) is scheduled for next week for the first F35 of this type assembled in the Cameri plant, in Piedmont, which will be delivered in the coming months to the Defense. This was stated in a note from the Secretariat [...]
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The first F-35B in short take-off and vertical landing version made its first flight today from the Cameri plant, reveals it in a RID article. It is not yet known whether the aircraft will be delivered to the Navy or the Air Force which, at the moment, have planned to acquire 15 F-35Bs each for a total [...]
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