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Latest newsItaly is ready to send 6 AMX to Afghanistan
Rome, Italy - To fight cultivation of opium poppy too
General Fabrizio Castagnetti, COI head (an Italian military corps) that manages all foreign Italian missions, claimed yesterday during a meeting in Rome that Italy is ready to send 6 AMX to Afghanistan... more
Latest newsCIA's flights: America asked for English aid
London, United Kingdom - British Foreign Minister Jack Straw claimed that
British Foreign Minister Jack Straw claimed by a reply to an English Member of Parliament that CIA asked for information to English colleagues about the opportunity to ship some terrorists or so presumptive... more
Latest newsJSF. America overrules the contract with Rolls Royce: it's hard debate
London, United Kingdom - The decision starts a vespiary of accusations
English government and high economy world aren’t agree about the decision made by Bush to overrule the contract signed and then nullified to supply aircraft engines between US and Rolls Royce. The contract f... more
Latest newsGeneral Tricarico visits Nassiriya
Nassiriya, Iraq - The official met 6th Roa working in Iraq
Aviation men member of Italian contingent working in Iraq met yesterday General Leonardo Tricarico, senior officer of Italian Air Force. The official was welcomed by the contingent commander, General Natalino... more
Latest newsThe Panther of the 155th Group in Sardinia
Piacenza, Italy - Monday morning six Tornado took off from the base of "San Damiano" (Piacenza)
Yesterday (2006-02-06), in the late morning, between 9:30 and 11:30 am six Tornado ECR (50-45/50-05/50-52/50-07/50-02/50-04) of the 155° Group ETS "Black Panther" took off from the base of San Damiano... more
Latest newsAlso NATO's aircraft will protect the Olympic Games of Turin
Brussels, Belgium - The Atlantic alliance will contribute to Games' security
The Italian representative at NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), ambassador Maurizio Moreno, said that, for the next Winter Olympic Games that will take place in Turin, also Awacs aircraft of the... more
Latest newsIsraelian fighters kill two Palestinian men
Gaza, Gaza Strip - The victims were aboard of two cars
Umpteenth Israelian Air Forces raid by air inside Hearths of Gaza yesterday evening. This time rockets hit two cars passing in Zeitun, a neighbourhood in the middle of Gaza City, killing two Islamic Jihad... more
Latest newsFennec: ideal in the extremest conditions
Marignane, France - Good also for pilots training
The Fennec is an helicopter that offers a good adaptiveness for all sort of mission in which armed forces are called to intervene. The flight of the first prototype of the model AS 550 C3 goes back to... more
Latest newsRonald Spogli, new American ambassador in Italy, goes to visit Sigonella
Sigonella, Italy - During his meeting in Catania
Ronald Spogli, American neo-ambassador in Italy, visited Sigonella (southern Italy) military base. The US delegate met Colonel and pilot Antonio Giuseppe Di Fiore, AMI’s (Italian Military Air Force) 4... more
Latest newsUS helicopter returns to enemy fire in Baghdad
Baghdad, Iraq - An American military command spokesman claimed that
The fact happened yesterday in the evening, when an American helicopter was in reconnaissance mission to expose a group of persons, maybe Ansar al Sunna’s terroristic group members. According an American s... more
Latest newsEC-725' success
Marignane, France - French Air Force booked other 18 units
French Air Force booked other 18 new EC-725 helicopters, 14 of which will employ for combat search and rescue missions. Ec-725 is the last product of Cougar Family. It has benefited of the experience and... more
Latest newsGeorgia closes its own airspace to Russian military aircraft
Tbilisi, Georgia - According Georgian executives and Interfax statements
Georgia closes its own airspace to Russian military aircrafts becuase of Russia didn’t pay the price to fly in Georgian skies. It’s from last Saturday and it is just for military aircrafts, not civil one... more
Latest newsTurkish F-16 crashed
Ankara, Turkey - No damages for people
A Turkish Air Force crashed around Diyarbarik, a city in the south-eastern side on an upland near Tiger River, this morning. The fighter plane crashed in a desert area ten kilometre far from the air base... more
Latest newsUSA: "The air exercise was a success"
Washington, Usa - By Jerry Halart, North American Aerospace Defense Command's spokesman
"We can confirm the air exercise was a success, and all training requirements were met". It’s Jerry Halart’s claiming, who is the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s spokesman. The exercise was c... more
Latest newsThe long American C-130's trek
Sigonella, Italy - The military aircraft stop over Sicily
Two C-130 military aircraft rested for a few time at Sigonella Naval Air Station in Sicily, Southeast of Italy. The of aircraft is involved in a 3-day trek, from Little Rock (USA) to Balad (Iraq). Marines... more
Latest newsScramble for the 5th Wing of Cervia
Cervia, Italy - An Ukraine Antonov was flying with no authorization inside Italian skies
An Italian Military Aviation’s F-16 of Cervia (Northern side of Italy) made a scramble (immediate take-off) yesterday evening for an aircraft not authorized to fly inside Italian skies. It was an An-12 t... more
Latest newsThe American Army is ready to fight new wars
Washington, USA - Robert Holmes', US' Brig. Gen., claiming
"American Army is ready to fight new wars around the world". That’s American Air Force’s Brigadier General Robert Holmes’claiming, the director of security forces and force protection. "We have to alter... more
Latest newsFurther US' air troops go to Afghanistan
Washington, USA - While Osama Bin Laden is backing in video
Latest Air Force’s American airmen left Afghanistan yesterday (on Thursday). They are involved in operation "Enduring Freedom", the American mission. Marines, aboard of their A/AO-10 fighter jets, have f... more
Latest newsUS Air Force is considering replacements for the old HH-60G
Washington, USA - New aircraft are going to be operative as from 2012
US Air Force is making several searches to replace its own actual HH-60G helicopters, whom American Military Aviation’s combat search and rescue teams are using now. The American government seems drawn b... more
Latest newsIraq: one thousand flight hours for Predator
Rome, Italy - It is a very important step that recompenses everyone for the lavish engagement
The Predator, the Italian Air Force remote pilotage aircraft, reached the 1,000 flight hours into Iraqi skies. It was useful many times, first of all to substitute ground patrols and helicopters for vigilance... more
Latest newsScramble for two Dutch F-16 in search for a 737
Leeuwarden, Holland - The airliner had interrupted every contact via radio
The Dutch Defense Ministry has unveiled that this morning two F-16 of the Air Force of the "Tulips country" have taken off to intercept an airliner B-737 of which, after taking off from Berlin-bound Amsterdam,... more
Latest newsRussia: a Sukhoi-24 military aircraft crashed
Moscow, Russia - Two pilots ejected just in time
A trouble at the origin of what happened today - according to Russian Defense Ministry declared - when a pilot and a co-pilot of a SU-24 of the Air Force have been forced to eject because the aircraft... more
Latest newsScramble for an Italian Military Air Force's F-16
Rome, Italy - A Libyan civil aircraft have been intercepted and then escorted
An F-16 of the 5th Wing of the Italian Military Air Force has taken off yesterday afternoon by Cervia’s military base to intercept a DC-10. The episode occurred near Trento, in the North side of Italy, a... more
Latest newsF-16 Emirates' pilot ejects himself out of his aircraft for troubles
Dubai, EAU - Troubles during a training flight for an air show
He was making a training by an UAE’s Air Forces a Falcon F-16 for an air show when, for troubles onboard, the pilot decided to eject himself out of the aircraft, but no one and nothing on the ground w... more
Latest newsIndia announces DefExpo, a formidable military exposition
New Delhi, India - More than 200 international companies are going to partecipate
"Next January 31 in New Delhi, DefExpo is going to start. It is one of the most important military demonstrations around the world. The happening hosted more than 350 industry from twenty different countries... more
Latest newsUS Air Force: U-2 in pension?
Washington, Usa - All grounded within 2011
It isn’t still official, but it seems that spy aircraft Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragonlady (see AVIONEWS) retire; the measure is part of resolution about quadrennial review that Pentagon will diffuse in t... more
Latest newsLockheed Martin received contract for 30 new Greek F-16s
Forth Worth, Usa - The final Greek aircraft will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2009
"The US government awarded a $99.7 million contract to Lockheed Martin on December 27 for long-lead tasks related to the production of 30 new Advanced Block 52+ aircraft for Greece. The governments... more
Latest newsUS' bomber wiped an Iraqi family
Baiji, Iraq - Perhaps the massacre due to a pilot's error
Hamad Hamud al Qaisi, Governor of Salaheddin’s Province commenting on the severe episode confirmed also by Iraqi security forces, has announced the opening of an inquiry. The facts: an US Air Force’s bom... more
Latest newsFirst "Scramble" of 2006: F-16 of Italian Air Force intercepted an English B-767
Naples, Italy - It was happened in early afternoon on the Tyrrhenian Sea
This time, the first one in this year, a Boeing 767 of the British carrier, Excel Airways, has been the protagonist of the "Invasion" of our air space; the airplane took off from London to Luxor, in Egypt,... more
Latest newsIsraeli Air Force launched missile on Gaza strip
Gaza, Gaza Strip - F-16 break the sound barrier flying over Gaza
With reference to the repeated Qassam rockets’ launches on Israel (see for details AVIONEWS), also at dawn of today have been renewed the skirmish between the militants of Lebanese radical groups and I... more
Latest newsAVIONEWS visited the Italian Navy's MariStaEli Base (4): 1st and 5th Helicopter Squadrons
Sarzana, Italy - The 1st was transferred to Luni from Catania in 1971
Italian Navy’s 5th Helicopter Squadron The 5th Squadron was founded in 1969 provided with two AB-47Js to provide choppers to ships located at La Spezia. The unit grow up with 17 helicopters in 1971 a... more
Latest newsAVIONEWS visited the Italian Navy's MariStaEli Base (3): 1st and 5th Helicopter Squadrons' missions
Sarzana, Italy - And Italian Navy's contribution in Italy and abroad
Italian Navy’s 1st and 5th Helicopter Squadrons have been performing several missions in Italy and abroad. They are specialized for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-ship operations (ASUW). The 1st S... more
Latest newsUS raid killed ten suspected terrorists in Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq - The event, occurred last Tuesday, announced to the press only today
US Army’s note has unveiled it today but the episode has happened last Tuesday, when a not specified number of pilots in patrol flight on a small village near the city of Hawija (50 km South-West of K... more
Latest newsIndia: 20 Tejas fighters ordered by Indian Air Force
New Dheli, India - The first series-production airplane in June 2006
Despite India intends to provide itself with 126 new multirole light fighters to replace the old Mig-21 Fishbeds as it started an international bid, the Asian country does not renounce to carry on the... more
Latest newsPratt & Whitney: first tests for the JSF's powerplant
Washington, USA - The F-135 is a derivative version of a turbofan already adopted for the F-22 Raptor
Pratt & Whitney performed the first tests on the new F-135 powerplant destined to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) multirole stealth light fighter produced by Lockheed Martin in collaboration among... more
Latest newsOlympic Winter Games: Italian Air Force defence guard is ready
Turin, Italy - Fighters, helicopters and surface-to-air missiles to protect the sport event against any aerial threat
Italian Air Force Chief of Staff, Leonardo Tricarico, seized a chance recently to remind how the guard scheduled to protect the Turin’s Olympic Winter Games (February 10-26) is a particularly complex, s... more
Latest newsIraq: F-14 Tomcats' recce role evolving
Baghdad, Iraq - Real time images transmitted to troops on the ground on their laptops about the situation in the area
The F-14 Tomcats, despite the announced retirement from the operational service, go on playing an important role in the Iraqi theatre, also with reference to reconnaissance missions. A new data processing... more
Latest newsF-22A Raptor: USAF's "Battering ram"
Washington, USA - In case of conflict, the stealth fighter would open the door to other USAF's aircraft to easily penetrate in the enemy's territory
US Air Force’s pilots in operational service with the F-22A Raptor expressed the first excited comments on the new stealth interceptors of the armed force. It mainly deals with personnel who previously f... more
Latest newsCzech Republic: NATO standard-based hangars are necessary for the Gripens
Prague, Czech Republic - A bid to build new structures to be started in January and, in the meantime, the old shelters have been updated
Czech Air Force’s hangars destined to the JAS-39 Gripens are not fully NATO standard-based yet. Representatives from the armed force underlined its importance, adding however that some temporary measures h... more
Latest newsRussia: strategic bombers fleet modernization has started
Moscow, Russia - The Tu-160s and the Tu-26s are involved and these last ones have been also requested by India
Russia is renewing the management of its strategic bombers fleet. As far as it is concerned with domestic defence, Air Force is about to take delivery of a Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack (according to NATO code... more
Latest newsA-400M: Finnish Patria to manufacture a vertical tail section
Helsinki, Finland - The group already cooperated to the production of the A-380
Patria, as a Finnish company competent for the production of aerospace structural components and jointly owned by both Helsinki’s Government and the European holding EADS, will attend to the manufacturing o... more
Latest newsThailand: Air Force's thumbs-down on the Su-30, the F/A-18 is better
Bangkok, Thailand - As the Russian fighter is too big and fast, but Government would prefer to avoid to have the USA as the only military aircraft supplier
A fierce debate between Government and Air Force is occurring in Thailand about the purchase of new fighters. The possible selection of a Russia-made airplane causes a series of problems Administration... more
Latest newsMMA: Boeing intends to involve Italy
Washington, USA - While waiting even for a prospective Italian interest in the P-8A maritime patrolling aircraft and maybe even for the 737 AEW&C
Boeing would intend to involve Italy in the MMA programme (Multimission Maritime Aircraft), related to a new maritime patrolling aircraft based on the 737 airframe and named the P-8A, under development... more
Latest newsSaudi Arabia: the Typhoon to follow the Tornado
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - An agreement for the purchase of 48 Eurofighter aircraft with options for additional 24 airplanes to replace the ADV/IDS fleet
British Aerospace succeeded in convincing Saudi authorities about the quality of the Eurofighter programme and Saudi Arabia became the 6th customer of the European fighter, the first one outside the European... more
Latest newsAfghanistan: four Norwegian F-16s arriving in January
Oslo, Norway - They will ensure ISAF troop protection against the rebels
Norway will support ISAF’s activities in Afghanistan with four Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole light fighters. Decision was considered as a consequence of the favourable vote by the Norwegian P... more
Latest newsThailand. Government gave the lie to the purchase of the Su-30s: evaluations are still on going
Bangkok, Thailand - But in case the Russian offer won, the F-16s would be updated
Thai Government firmly gave the lie to the new spread by the international press and according to which some 12 Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 fighters would have been purchased by the Asian country (see for... more
Latest newsJSF: first F-35 is "Shaping up"
Washington, USA - Construction of the first airframe is almost accomplished and its engine will be installed early in 2006
The Joint Strike Fighter programme is about to be accomplished concerning the construction of the first aircraft. Actually, all the airframe’s sections have been assembled and the Pratt & Whitney F-135 p... more
Latest newsSingapore: 12 F-15SG arriving by 2009
Singapore - It would deal with the most advanced Eagle version
The contract for the purchase of 12 F-15SG Eagle multirole fighters by Singapore has been officialized, a deal that also schedules options for additional 8 aircraft of this type. Such a version was exclusively... more
Latest newsFCA: a Request for Proposals to be addressed to Alenia and EADS on December 22
Washington, USA - The first step to the future selection between the C-27J Spartan and the CN-235/295
US Army proves willing to resume the process for the bid related to the FCA (Future Cargo Aircraft) programme, with reference to the new military transport airplane for the armed force intended to replace... more
Latest newsIran: strenght and weakness of military aviation
Teheran, Iran - Analysts think that the acquisition of missile and all-weather technologies is an attempt to counterbalance a super-power strategic superiority
Military analysts are asking themselves which capabilities can be implemented by Iran to face a prospective conflict. Air Force can rely upon a broad and various provision of aircraft to perform almost... more