05/03/14  |  Industry
A Low Cost Solution for Maritime Surveillance?
A Boeing Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) demonstrator recently completed its first airworthiness verification flight ...
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27/02/14  |  Industry
Alenia Aermacchi signs a contract for eight M-346 with Poland
Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company, has signed with the Polish Ministry of Defense a contract for the supply of eight advanced training aircraft M-346 Master ....
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26/02/14  |  Industry
The US Navy orders other 16 P-8A Poseidon
The P-8A Poseidon program will go into full production following a $ 2,4 billion contract with the United States Navy for 16 aircraft. The order, which will bring ...
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18/02/14  |  Industry
The US Navy tests a new sensor for its Super Hornets
The US Navy has recently tested, for the first time on an F / A-18 Super Hornet, the Infrared Search and Track sensor (IRST), which would help to identify difficult targets ...
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18/02/14  |  Industry
Boeing, Air France and KLM update AWACS Transalpines
Boeing, Air France Industries and KLM Engineering & Maintenance have completed the Mid-Life upgrade of the first of four E-3F Airborne Warning and Control aircraft ...
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14/02/14  |  Industry
First C-17 at Kuwait
The Kuwait Air Force received the first C-17 Globemaster III yesterday. The aircraft will expand the capabilities of the Kuwait Air Force in military and civilian operations. "The C-17 satisfies ...
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10/02/14  |  Industry
The Turkish armed forces receive the first Peace Eagle
Turkey received the first Peace Eagle Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft. The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) would now have an advanced system of ...
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25/01/14  |  Industry
New rogue coming in for the F35 program?
Reuters, after coming into possession of a report by 25 pages of the US Department of Defense, published today the news of maintenance problems and ...
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23/01/14  |  Industry
The US Air Force receives the first B-1 equipped with the Integrated Battle Station
The US Air Force received on Tuesday the first B-1 bomber upgraded with the new Integrated ...
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17/01/14  |  Industry
Boeing starts assembling the KC-46A
Boeing is assembling the fourth and final KC-46A test aircraft for the program at the Everett factory ...
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16/01/14  |  Industry
Eurofighter Typhoon: Begin the flying tests of the Taurus KEPD 350 missile
The flight tests of the stand-off precision missile on the Instrumented Production Aircraft 7 aircraft began yesterday ...
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07/01/14  |  Industry
Completed the second flight test of the Arrow 3 missile
Palmachim Air Base, Israel. The next generation of the Arrow 3 missile, co-developed by Boeing and Israel ...
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05/01/14  |  Industry
Poland selects Alenia Aermacchi's M-346
Poland's Ministry of Defense has selected M-346 training aircraft from Alenia Aermacchi, a company ...
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05/01/14  |  Industry
Finmeccanica: AgustaWestland and the decision of the Indian government
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, confirms that it has received yesterday from the Ministry of Defense of India both the ...
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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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Syria: The Most Vile Betrayal
Do you see this photo? It is from 2015. Behind me, there are the faces of some of the tens of thousands of soldiers and volunteers who sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland. The...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Are the chiefs of staff also censored now?"
Dear director, I have read the speech given by General Masiello to the 40th of the Lagunari and, remembering having read the Army Press Release (it dates back to 25 June, you were not...
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