Kuwait: change of command at Task Group Devil

(To Greater Defense)
20/10/20

At the Ahmed Al Jaber air base, in Kuwait, in the presence of the commander of the Italian National Contingent Command Air - Task Force Air Kuwait colonel pil. Sergio Cavuoti, the change of command at the top of the Task Group Devil took place between Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Corrado, outgoing commander, and Lieutenant Colonel Mario Passante, incoming commander.

The col. Cavuoti after greeting the intervening authorities, thanked the ten. with the. Antonio Corrado returning home after having taken care of the handover of the aircraft Tornado of Task Group Devil with the Eurofighters of Task Group Typhoon, which took place in August.

The Devil Task Group, with 4 Tornado equipped with reconnaissance Pods, under Ghedi's 6th wing, alongside the other national assets as an integral part of the Task Force Air - Kuwait to support the operation Inherent Resolve - Prima Parthica with duties exclusively of surveillance and photographic reconnaissance as requested by the coalition.

Panavia aircraft Tornado, for many years they have acquired the capacity of tactical reconnaissance, and have always been called to operate in all the theaters in which the Air Force has been engaged.

In the past two months, i Tornado of Task Group Devil have carried out more than 80 sorties in over 350 hours of flight in operational missions with many objectives recognized and analyzed: a fundamental operational contribution, whose quality is constantly recognized by the Coalition Leadership and by all the other partners.