The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced on 19 November that France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom have signed a letter of intent for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NGRC) project. The details were given in a media release, to announce a significant number of medium multi-role helicopter capabilities […]

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Italian Army has revealed that it has been testing a new anti-drone jamming gun during the Prometo 2020 exercises. The Prometo 2020 exercise was held by the Counter Mini / Micro Remotely Piloted Aircraft Center of Excellence (CM / M APR) at the Foce Verde (LT) proving ground last week. The exercise was conducted with the aim of […]

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Austria has placed a 300 million euros ($352 million) order for 18 AW169M twin-engine helicopters from Leonardo Helicopters in a deal with Italy, Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner said on Monday. The Italian deal beat out rival efforts by the Airbus and Bell, Tanner told a news conference. According to the statement, around two thirds […]

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NATO’s third unmanned aircraft, called the RQ-4D Phoenix, has arrived at an alliance base in southern Italy, according to Allied Air Command Public Affairs Office. The third of five Alliance Ground Surveillance drones arrived at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily on Wednesday, after completing a 22-hour test flight from Palmdale, Calif., a statement said. […]

The  U.S. Air Force has released incredible footage showing aircraft and vehicles assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing line the runway during an elephant walk at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Two dozen F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 510th and 555th Fighter Squadrons with two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters of the 56th and 57th Rescue Squadrons […]

The U.S. Navy commenced flight testing of the newest unmanned helicopter, Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout, equipped with the Leonardo AN/ZPY-8 advanced search radar. The Navy’s newest unmanned helicopter designed to operate concurrently with other airborne assets and littoral combat ships and the new radar will provide commanders an improved and integrated intelligence, surveillance and […]

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced on Friday that the first column with Russian military personnel and special equipment performing tasks to assist in the fight against the spread of coronavirus infection in Italy marches from the point of temporary deployment of the Orio-al-Serio airfield in Bergamo to the Villafranca airfield in […]

Russia reportedly is deploying its Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence or RChB Defense to Italy. Russia has loaded nine Il-76 cargo planes that flew to Italy, with eight mobile medical teams, medical equipment and aerosol disinfection trucks. Moscow also sent about 100 military specialists in virology and epidemics, one special military laboratory and 20 […]

The U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Ericka Woolever spent 24 hours photographing the daily life of special mission aviators from the 56th Rescue Squadron at Aviano Air Base, Italy. He demonstrated an ordinary day for HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter pilots, from the 31st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 56th Helicopter Maintenance Unit, at Aviano Air Base, […]

U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft conducted bilateral training with Italian air force F-35 and Eurofighter Typhoons fighter jets over Italy, the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa announced. The U.S. F-35s are deployed to Europe from the 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th FW at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, […]