07/01/15  |  Industry
Finmeccanica: year-end contracts in all business sectors
End of the year marked by new contracts for the Finmeccanica Group; in the last days of 2014, four important agreements were signed which concerned all ...
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29/12/14  |  Industry
First positive US Air Force test for the KC-46 tanker
Boeing and the US Air Force successfully completed the first flight of the test cycle for the KC-46 tanker yesterday. The plane, a 767-2C, took off from Paine Field (Wash) at 09:29 (PST ...
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22/12/14  |  Industry
Alenia Aermacchi: contract from 120 mln with the Defense for three M-346
Finmeccanica-Alenia Aermacchi and the General Directorate of Aeronautical Armaments (ARMAEREO) signed the contract today in Rome, worth 120 million, for ...
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14/12/14  |  Industry
First release of a Storm Shadow from an Eurofighter Typhoon
Alenia Aermacchi, in close cooperation with its Eurofighter partners, has successfully conducted the first release test of the Storm Shadow missile within the ...
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19/11/14  |  Industry
Finmeccanica: over 400 million euros from the new Eurofighter radar
The value for Finmeccanica of the 400 billion-euro contract signed today in Edinburgh among the European Eurofighter GmbH consortium is equal to more than 1 million.
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12/11/14  |  Industry
Rosetta Mission: Finmeccanica's decisive technological contribution
As part of the Rosetta mission of ESA (European Space Agency), today the Philae lander landed on comet 67P / Churyumov ‐ Gerasimenko. The technical-scientific contribution ...
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11/11/14  |  Industry
Minister Pinotti visits the AgustaWestland facilities in Poland
The Minister of Defense, Roberta Pinotti, during a visit to Poland, yesterday went to the headquarters of PZL-Świdnik, a company controlled by Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland ....
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06/11/14  |  Industry
Italy will work on the sensors of the future Anglo-French UCAV
Yesterday Laurent Collet-Billon, head of the French Defense procurement agency (DGA), and Bernard Gray, responsible for procurement at the Ministry of Defense ...
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30/10/14  |  Industry
Alenia Aermacchi: contract with MoD Slovakia for 2 C-27J Spartan
Finmeccanica - Alenia Aermacchi and the Ministry of Defense of Slovakia signed yesterday, 29 October, a ...
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30/10/14  |  Industry
The new "Minuteman III" missile ready for nuclear deterrence
Boeing successfully witnessed the flight test of a US Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ...
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29/10/14  |  Industry
Delivered the 300 ° CH-47F Chinook to the US Army
Boeing delivered the 75th CH-300F Chinook helicopter to the US Army 47 days early this month. "This...
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27/10/14  |  Industry
Finmeccanica participates in Euronaval 2014
Finmeccanica, through its companies OTO Melara and WASS, participates in the Euronaval fair “International Naval Defense ...
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24/10/14  |  Industry
And the US agrees with Turkey for cruise missiles ...
Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with the Turkish company Roketsan for the production of cruise missiles ...
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16/10/14  |  Industry
Boeing delivers the 18mo P-8A Poseidon to the US Navy
Boeing delivered the eighteenth P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the US Navy on October 14. Will go to support another ...
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14/10/14  |  Industry
Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland: Chinese contract from 400 million
Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland has signed a contract with the Chinese group Beijing Automotive Industrial Corporation (...
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09/10/14  |  Industry
Williams International's FJ44-4M will drive the M-345 HET
After a selection process that included preliminary studies, then turned into a competition open to different ...
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01/10/14  |  Industry
Boeing delivers first Chinook - MH-47G "Special Operations"
Boeing on Monday delivered the first newly built Chinook in MH-47G configuration to operations command ...
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17/09/14  |  Industry
Boeing last revised the Talon HATE system for the USAF
Boeing completed the final system review of the Talon HATE program for the US Air Force. The system should ...
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07/09/14  |  Industry
"VULCANO Guided Long Range" begins the qualifying phase
The 15 July 2014 the German federal agency BAAINBw, in charge of acquisitions for programs and products of the ...
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07/09/14  |  Industry
Laser weapons: destroyed targets in wind and fog conditions
Boeing and the US military have tested the capabilities of the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) in ...
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Tribute (due) to the 80th "Roma" infantry who takes leave with honor

Well, yes, we are now used to witnessing the closure of the barracks and perhaps even a little to burying the long history of the departments, a phenomenon which however does not erase the memories. It also touched...

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"Il Signor Parolini" (ninth part)

The baked chicken, as expected, had lived up to its reputation, consolidating, where needed, the undisputed culinary mastery of Gastone, chief ...

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Backchannels and fireworks: US mediation behind Iranian retaliation on Israel?
As announced by the Iranian regime, the announced retaliation for the (unannounced) attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April 2024 which led to the death of...
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Letters to Defense Online: "Carabinieri and sinking of the Garibaldi"
Mine is not meant to be a sterile controversy but after more than thirty years of wearing the uniform I consider it a "fair" controversy. Decisions regarding the size and composition of forces...
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