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12/07/21 | Means

Euro 2020: heart-pounding final at Wembley Stadium! The vehicles in the backstage are interesting ...

Last night's minutes on penalties in the Italy-England final of Euro 2020 were endless and electrifying. The Azzurri did it with a 4 to 3 at ...

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08/07/21 | Means

LAUNCH with the Volumex, the first concept of “Mild” Hybrid power

Making a parallel between the volumetric supercharging system and the Mild Hybrid may seem bizarre, although both systems aim to increase the ...

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29/06/21 | Means

Chevrolet (like Fiat) a valid military

Let's take a step back in time and go to 1911 to talk about Louis Chevrolet, driver and forerunner of an antagonist brand of the Ford T, the first concept of a popular car ...

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22/06/21 | Means

VLEGA Gaucho: a misunderstood but valid "half-breed"

Surely a multi-role light vehicle atypical for its VW Dune Buggy line that brings to mind a rival, the American Flyer 72 GMV 1.1, the new assault vehicle ...

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05/06/21 | Means

Green Waters Navies: is there an alternative to conventional submarines? (second part)

Midget and Compact Submarines The history of these submarines dates back to the period of World War II, with several projects developed mainly by Japan, Italy, ...

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03/06/21 | Means

Green Waters Navies: is there an alternative to conventional submarines? (first part)

Sailing a submarine (nuclear, conventional or midget) is fraught with danger and, contrary to popular belief, a submarine is closer to being an airplane (than ...

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06/05/21 | Means

Brazil changes the page on tactics: a Light Multirole Vehicle after the Guaranì VBTP

The "Italian military cat" Light Multirole Vehicle LINCE seems to have once again captured the international interest of the armies towards a protected multirole, which ...

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22/04/21 | Means

IVECO DV's strategy conquers Romania: ACTL, logistic and armored “fly”

After the first and historic production center in Bolzano, to which Vittorio Veneto has been added and more recently Piacenza (Astra), Iveco Defense Vehicles is expanding its ...

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09/04/21 | Means

German “Rent a Car” for Eurocargo, works well and offers opportunities. Is it a mirage with us?

We have previously brought the Iveco Trakker platform to the spotlight, engineering and military ...

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05/04/21 | Means

The vaccines arrive at home with a work of art, the Fiat 500

I admit that, for personal reasons, I miss driving an old Fiat 500 and that my experiences aboard ...

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19/03/21 | Means

Pantsir S-1: the drone killer

In November 2019 a UAV Reaper of the Italian Air Force was shot down over the skies of Tripolitania (see ....

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10/03/21 | Means

Inside the carabinieri shelters. Is there also UNIMOG among the post VM90 multiroles?

The gradual introduction of the J8 will support and lighten the work of the VM90s a little, pending a call for tender ...

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24/02/21 | Means

A Baby Truck (only) in the footsteps of DAKAR

After a good 7.780 km traveled in two weeks in Saudi Arabia, the DAKAR 15 ended on January 2021th and, by way of "...

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09/02/21 | Means

What future for the Trakkers? (Timeless Astra heart)

If last month it was the news of the sale to the Bundeswehr of the unstoppable Trakker truck that bounced for ...

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12/01/21 | Means

History of the 80-year-old automatic transmission, the traditional most versatile

I had previously talked about automatic transmissions, a reality that also touched the ARs, as we have seen ...

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31/12/20 | Means

New Centaur for a new Cavalry

The supply of heavy CENTAURO II 8x8 busses to equip the Cavalry regiments of ...

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10/12/20 | Means

Wrangler J8: the new AR "Twenty One"?

It was already in the air in 2018 when we too had ventured the prediction of a new AR after the guessed choice ...

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09/12/20 | Means

Phantoms of the world, episode 4: the "Terminators" of Turkey

If there was a book hypothetically titled: "The Marvelous Adventures of the F-4 Phantom", surely one of ...

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03/12/20 | Means

Phantoms of the world, episode 3: the "Aegean guards"

In the late 60s of the twentieth century, the Greek Air Force (““λληνικὴ Πολεμική Αεροπορία - Ellinikí Polemikí ...

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29/11/20 | Means

Phantoms of the world, episode 2: South Korea's “bunker busters”

In 1968, at the height of America's commitment to the Vietnam War, the skies of Southeast Asia resounded with “...

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