The attack in Egypt and the parasol geopolitics
13/07/2015 - July, a month of holidays and relaxation.
For some admirers of the holiday information between a gossip magazine and a cooking magazine you can also take a look at the newspapers that for a few days on the front page write: Italy under attack!
Marò: India can not escape arbitration
13/07/2015 - ANSA reports from Delhi that Indian institutional sources have declared to theHindustan Times that India cannot escape the Italian request for international arbitration provided for by the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) ratified also by Delhi. Soon the Indian ministers of the Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs will meet to identify the position that will be submitted to the decision of the Indian Supreme Court.
13 July 1890: The use of Sambuchi
Sunday - At 15's elderberry t of displacement, bought last May in Hodeida for colonial service in the Red Sea is given the name Gazelle. This was followed by others, of varying displacement between the 15 and the 90 t, built to order or captured by smugglers and pirates, and normally located in Massaua and then, with the extension of the Italian protectorate to the northern coast of Migiurtinia, to Bender Ziada.
26-27 September 2015: "The column of the Direttissima"
12 / 07 / 2015 - "The column of the Direttissima" is the second edition of a commemoration of the military train and the column of vintage military vehicles dedicated to the "Direttissima" railway line, the link between Bologna and Florence, which last year Eighty years since its inauguration.
12 July 1873: Minister Riboty leaves and advises the King
Saturday - Taking advantage of a partial crisis within the government, the minister Augusto Riboty retires to private life after advising the King (who normally pre-orders the two ministers of the War and the Navy when they are military) to replace him with the new counter-admiral Simone Pacoret of Saint Bon, decorated with a military gold medal for his conduct in Lissa and a Member of Parliament, which thus became part of the new government.
The Balkans and the bad conscience - cap.1: Bosnia invented
11/07/2015 - Until '91 Trieste was a door and the highway that went beyond, went straight without different acronyms. It pointed south to the mountains of Macedonia and Montenegro, where the Balkans of the Slavs close the doors to Albania. Who cares, many will say. Stuff of signs and roads at the bottom ...
Afghanistan: Italy trains new craftsmen in Herat
11/07/2015 - The JULIA Alpine Brigade and the Confartigianato of Udine yesterday presented a cooperation project that provides for the carrying out of some basic training courses for craftsmen in favor of Afghan workers.
11 July 1915: Operation of landing at Pelagosa
Sunday - The landing operation on the island of Pelagosa (today Palagruža, Croatia) of a department of 90 sailors under the command of the lieutenant of vessel Alberto da Zara, which takes part in:
11 July 1911: Authorized purchase of the area for the Navy Ministry
Tuesday - Parliament authorizes the expenditure of 1.400.000 lire for the purchase of the area needed for the construction of the new headquarters of the Ministry of the Navy and the barracks of the detachment of the CRE.
F-35B: first rejection, Australia renounces the STVOL version
10/07/2015 - Australia has decided not to purchase the F-35B for its two assault helicopter carriers due to the enormous expenses it would have to incur to modify the ships. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot wanted to use the F-35Bs on the Navy's two 27-ton assault ships.
Commemoration of the fallen of the "Lyra 34"
10/07/2015 - On a peak of Mount Zec, west of Sarajevo, the ceremony for the laying of wreaths took place yesterday at the Monument to the memory of the Air Force "Lyra34" aviators, who fell on September 3, 1992 during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
Kosovo: aid for the construction of a road in Goradzevac
10/07/2015 - The Italian military contingent based on the 132nd Tank Regiment, of Cordenons (PN), framed in the Multinational Battle Group West of KFOR, donated the materials necessary for the restoration and safety of a road in Goradzevac, a village with a Serb majority in the municipality of Pec / Peja.
Change of command at the Douhet
10/07/2015 - On Wednesday 8 July, the handover ceremony took place between Colonel Claudio Luigi Icardi, outgoing commander of the “Giulio Douhet” Military Air Force School, and Colonel Michele Buccolo.
Awarding patents to new Army Aviation pilots
10/07/2015 - At the Army Aviation Training Center, the closing of the 1st pilot pilot course from the 2014 “Orione” helicopter was celebrated today, with a military ceremony open to family members, civil and military authorities of the city.
Beretta presents "i-PROTECT". The first potential customer tells us ...
10/07/2015 - Last week was presented by Beretta SpA and Intellitronika Srl a device that from July 1 is tested by carabinieri of the district of the Provincial Command of Milan. The system is called "i-PROTECT" and, since the first users in the world are the military of the Arma, we have contacted the boss Armament and Special Equipment Office of the General Command, Colonel Paolo Aceto.
The irrational inflexibility of those who have never counted anything
10/07/2015 - That Greece is a completely marginal issue in the international political panorama is established, confirming what has been said by the fact that the entire amount of Athens' public debt is equal to what Italy alone produces in terms of domestic product in a year and half, billion more, billion less.
EXPO Milano 2015: Convention on Crime and Food Safety
10/07/2015 - Yesterday, at the Auditorium of the Italian Pavilion Expo Milano 2015, the international meeting "Countering food crime, strengthening food security" began - "Fighting food crime - enforcing food safety".
"DDL Madia, the government clarifies"
10/07/2015 - The recent amendment Carbone to the DDL Madia on the reorganization of the PA, together with the White Paper of Defense are potentially devastating measures for the concept of equiordination that is in force in the Defense and Security sector.
10 July 1910: Allocated funds for the air component
Sunday - 10.000.000 of liras are allocated to be entered in the state of expenditure of the Ministry of War for the EF 1909-1910 for the construction of airships, airplanes, related plants, works, transport and special allowances to personnel. This is the construction and acquisition of nine airships, ten airplanes, seven airplanes ("shipyards", according to the lexicon of the time), two airports.
10 July 1897: First earth-earth radiotelegraphic experiment
Saturday - The first ground-to-ground radio-communications experiment with Morse code communication over the distance of 3000 m is performed and repeated several times until 13 in Spezia with positive outcome by Guglielmo Marconi who uses a transmitter system with 25 m antenna installed in the entrance square of the shipyard of San Bartolomeo and a receiving apparatus placed in the command court (today "Piazzale Bergamini") of the arsenal.