General Graziano visits the Italian military in Iraq and Kurdistan
17/07/2015 - "The battle against ISIS is not a battle of Kurdistan or Iraq but a battle of the whole democratic world to preserve their freedom against those who attack it", these are the words of the Chief of Defense, General Claudio Graziano, visiting the Italian soldiers involved in the training of the Peshmerga military in Erbil.
Nave Italia completes the "Epilepsy out of the shadows" project
17/07/2015 - Fourteen boys and girls, aged between 12 and 19 and suffering from epilepsy under drug treatment, received, last weekend aboard Nave Italia, from the hands of the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi, the "Sailor Diploma".
Visit of the Argentine military agent at the 4 ° Stormo
17/07/2015 - Last Tuesday the military attaché for defense at the Argentine embassy in Rome, col. pil. Ulisse Ferrari, accompanied by a representative of the International Aviation Policy Office at the Air Force Staff, paid a visit to the 4 ° Stormo of Grosseto.
F-35, Pentagon: "8 of the 243 features need to be changed"
17/07/2015 - Five years after the scheduled date for Initial Operational Capability, the Pentagon has confirmed that the F-35 is ready for combat although some adjustments will be required which will be resolved later.
17 July 1897: Positive Results for Marconi Radio
Guglielmo Marconi tests are carried out in the waters of Spezia with positive results of radiotelegraphic transceiver with the battleship San Martino (commander, captain of vessel Enrico Zino) with connections maintained up to 18.000 m.
New sources of raid on Israeli special forces in Syria in 2008
16/07/2015 - It is a scene from a Hollywood action-movie that told today on The Jerusalem Post: glasses of champagne, tuxedos overlooking the sea and a sensitive objective to be eliminated in Syria.
Iraqi Kurdistan: Defense Minister visits Erbil Task Force
16/07/2015 - The Minister of Defense, Roberta Pinotti, accompanied by the Chief of Defense Staff, General Claudio Graziano, and the Ambassador of Italy in Baghdad, Marco Carnelos, arrived today to visit the Italian contingent of the "Erbil" Task Force of the KTCC (Kurdistan Training Coordination Center) which operates in the Erbil area as part of the “Prima Parthica” Operation.
Lithuania: delivered to the orphanage of Šiauliai, a humanitarian load from Italy
16/07/2015 - Yesterday, a delegation from the Task Force Air (TFA) visited the orphanage in the city of Šiauliai, which hosts around 30 newborns and numerous children between 1 and 8 years.
The visit was made on the occasion of the delivery of a huge load of humanitarian effects arrived in Lithuania with a C130 aircraft of the 46 ^ Air Brigade.
Safety systems on board of Palinuro ship
16/07/2015 - Last Saturday, in the waters in front of the port of Livorno, in the presence of the team admiral Stefano Dotti, head of the General Office for Accident Prevention and Environmental Protection (U.Ge.Co.Prev.A.) and the admiral inspector Massimo Guma, head of the Prevention and Safety Office, of the instructors for work at height and on ropes of the CAMP company, tests were carried out on the use of the new system to climb the masts of the schooner, introduced to increase the safety of personnel in activities at height.
Iraq, F-16 arrives, but what will they serve?
16/07/2015 - Four F-16IQ “Vipers” fighters were delivered to the Iraqi government last Monday. The handover is part of a contract signed between the two countries and aimed at strengthening the capabilities of the loyalist government. The four F-16s landed at the Balad base.
Afghanistan: Change to CAI-I direction
16/07/2015 - In recent days, the colonel of the Air Force Nicola Sebastio has transferred the management of the Administrative Center of Interforces Intendency (CAI-I) to the parigrade Fabrizio Babusci. The ceremony was attended by Brigadier General Michele Risi, commander TAAC-W (Train Advise Assist Command - West) and of the national contingent based on the “Julia” Brigade.
Agreement between MM and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
16/07/2015 - Collaboration agreement signed between the Navy and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) for the development and enhancement of projects and infrastructures for scientific research at sea and maritime safety, with particular reference to emergencies arising from natural phenomena.
F-35: "It will be the Pentagon's masterpiece"
16/07/2015 - Summer is a 'dead' season. Sometimes news must be invented just to arouse hype. Taking it with the F-35 is a fashion. Striking all its problems is now a habit and it does not matter that many of them have been solved.
The fire fighting of the Army in Sardinia with the 21 ° AVES
16/07/2015 - The fire alarm is back in Sardinia. This time in the Zurru S'Elia area, 20 km north of the city of Cagliari. The flames broke out in a wooded area near the neighboring village of Barrali (CA), which, thanks to the high temperatures of these days, spread very rapidly in the undergrowth on at least three fronts, becoming particularly insidious.
16 July 1893: King Umberto ships in service
Sunday - The battleship King Umberto under the command of the captain of a vessel, Giovanni Bettolo entered service in Naples.
White Paper, that strange desire to do soon ...
15/07/2015 - From what we know, STAMADIFESA is currently engaged in a great effort of elaboration on the White Paper (LB). Several "working groups" have been working for weeks, technical meetings that follow one after the other, never before has SMD really appeared as the navel of the MD. Because?
Kosovo: Bailey Bridge inaugurated at Decane monastery
15/07/2015 - Two months after the signing of the agreement that allowed its construction, the Bailey bridge, donated by the Italian Army and built next to the monastery of "Visoki Dečani", was inaugurated today by General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, commander of the NATO forces in Kosovo and the ambassador of Italy in Kosovo, Andreas Ferrarese.
The Deputy Chief of Staff of the AM visits the TFA in Lithuania
15/07/2015 - Yesterday the Air Force General Paolo Magro, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force, visited the Italian Task Force Air (TFA), present in Šiauliai (Lithuania) for the fulfillment of NATO's Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission .
Italian soldiers save a child in Kosovo
15/07/2015 - Two Italian soldiers in force at the Joint Regional Detachment Center (JRDC) of the KFOR mission in Kosovo, rescued and assisted a Kosovar child who was in serious danger. Employed in an ordinary monitoring activity of the territory, the two soldiers noticed that a 6-year-old child was in evident danger of life, suffering from illness.
The importance of civil-military cooperation
15/07/2015 - This contribution is based on the current international scene, also with regard to the theaters in which our Armed Forces are involved in various capacities, and the legislative proposals that, in recent months, have received an echo media, attracting the interest of the writer both as a jurist attentive to military issues, and as a "politician" and who, albeit in opposite directions, highlight the centrality and ever-increasing importance that civil cooperation must (or should) assume - military and offer the starting point for some reflections, considerations and proposals.