David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.
An unknown episode happened during the first EC-121 Warning Star missions over Gulf of Tonkin. Even though airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft play an extremely important role today, the first conflict to see an extensive use of […]
U.S. Predator drones “intercepted” by Russia’s jets, U.S. fighters rerouted for deconfliction: the airspace over Syria is becoming increasingly dangerous. As already explained in our article about the close encounter between a flight of U.S. […]
Cool GoPro footage shot by 492nd and 493rd Fighter Squadrons during Arctic Fighter Meet 2016. From May 23 to 27, the 48th Fighter Wing from RAF Lakenheath, trained alongside the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish air […]
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Why in this case any news agency publish: “aggressive formation of state of the art US fighters training in international waters near Cuba?”
Why in this case any news agency publish: “aggressive formation of state of the art US fighters training in international waters near Cuba?”
You can thank Robert Gates for that one.