AMI – The Aviationist

The first Italian aircraft to be deployed in Afghanistan has been a Bell UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter in a version built under license by Agusta and designated AB-212. Both the Aeronautica Militare...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/10/15/ab212/

Here’s the F-22, a fifth generation fighter jet: And here’s the SF-260EA of the Italian Air Force, a light aircraft used for initial pilot training: What do they have in common? Both have had...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/08/08/f-22/

Previous debriefings: Archive Latest update: on Aug. 3, at 10.40LT, a missile exploded 2 km from the Italian frigate Bersagliere, that was patrolling the sea some 15 miles off Libya. According to...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/08/03/operation-unified-protector-was-odyssey-dawn-explained-day-105-137/

Until Jul. 29, 2011, only two types of PSYchological OPerationS (PSYOPS) had been reported from Libya. The first, is the typical, world famous message broadcasting performed by the USAF EC-130J (...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/07/30/interactive-psyops/

Previous debriefings: Archive With the air campaign in Libya in progress for more than 100 days, I think it’s better to give the blog’s reader an extremely quick recap of the main political a...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/07/01/operation-unified-protector-was-odyssey-dawn-explained-day-81-104/

I created the following image (using Photoshop) stitching 5 pictures of the F-2000A Typhoon of the Italian Air Force  I took at Jesolo Air Show rehearsal on Jun. 10, 2011 (the 2nd one being the ...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/06/16/typhoon-display/

After publishing a post about the Thunderbirds condensation clouds induced by high-G maneuvers and high-AOAs (Angle Of Attack) during and a post about the rehearsals, below you can find some more...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/06/14/jesolo-2/

Yesterday I’ve published some pictures of the Thunderbirds performing a demo flight at Jesolo on Jun. 10 to explain the origin of condensation clouds generated by maneuvering aircraft.  Here�...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/06/12/jesolo-1/

Previous debriefings: Archive As reported in the previous Debriefs, although not being as intense as one might expect, NATO air campaign may be slowly paying off. Thanks also to the coalition’s...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/06/07/operation-unified-protector-was-odyssey-dawn-explained-day-68-80/

Previous debriefings: Archive After more than two months of air campaign, Unified Protector seems to be making a slow progress across Libya, even if the air campaign is far from being decisive ag...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/05/24/operation-unified-protector-was-odyssey-dawn-explained-day-55-67/

As I’ve already written many times on my Unified Protector (previously Odyssey Dawn) “column” on this blog (and on Twitter too…), under a military/technological point of view the war in L...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/05/20/kc-767/

With the ItAF formally accepting into service the first two KC-767A tankers (that were delivered on Dec. 29, 2010 and Mar. 10, 2011), it went almost unnoticed the news that the air force contribu...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/05/19/itaf-bona/

On May 17, 2011, an Italian Air Force C-130J, departed in the morning from Pisa airbase, dropped about 400.000 leaflets over Tripoli, Libya. As reported by ANSA news agency, leaflets contained a ...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/05/18/italian-psyops/

Taking place between May 9 and 20 at Cambrai airbase, in northern France, NATO Tiger Meet (NTM11) has been attended by about 60 planes and helicopters belonging to the Austrian, Czech Republic, G...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/05/16/ntm/

Previous debriefings: Archive Not so many things have happened on the battlefield during the last days, when media were focused on the Osama Bin Laden raid and the famous Stealth Black Hawk. For ...

https://theaviationist.com/2011/05/12/operation-unified-protector-was-odyssey-dawn-explained-day-43-54/