The Italian Armed Forces Day exhibition, held each year in Rome inside the Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo), always provides an interesting opportunity for a close look at the most interesting equipments of the four Armed Forces [Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force), Marina Militare (Italian Navy), Esercito Italiano (Italian Army), and Carabinieri (Military Police)], and of the Italian Armed Corps, as the Guardia Costiera (Coast Guard) and the Guardia di Fin
Military Aviation
B-52 bombers deployed to Europe (for an exercise) using a special radio callsign: the name of a Libyan city
Even if, during peacetime operations, radio callsigns used to identify military flights in radio communications with the ATC (Air Traffic Control) agencies are usually squadron standards (Ghost Rider xxx, Panther xx, Bogey xx, Weasel xx, […]
Italian Air Force
Italian Tornado jets help police forces finding a marijuana plantation during anti-drug mission
Italian Tornado combat planes took part in an anti-drug mission aimed at finding a marijuana plantation not far from their homebase. About 250 kg of cannabis were seized in northern Italy after a plantation was […]
Drones
NASA’s demilitarized MQ-9 Predator B drone filmed Orion splashdown for NASA TV
The video of the Orion crew module Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) as it descended through the atmosphere until splashdown into the Pacific Ocean was filmed by Ikhana, NASA’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS). On Dec. […]