Last week, Giovanni Maduli went to Decimomannu to report about the training activities performed by the aircraft deployed in Sardinia. Interestingly, he not only took some pictures of the temporary based Tornados of the 155° Gruppo and F-16s of the 37° Stormo, but he also caught some interesting visitors, as the Austrian C-130K.
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