Photo: AV-8B+ Harrier heavy configuration
Taken on Jan. 17 by Giovanni Maduli, the following picture shows an Italian Navy AV-8B+ Harrier taking off from Decimomannu airbase in a heavy configuration including 4 x 300 gallons…
Iran to return the captured stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone to the U.S. As a scale model.
Update Jan. 17 13:15 GMT Around $4: this is the expected price of the 1:80 reproduction of the stealthy RQ-170 drone captured on Dec. 4, that a group of Iranian…
Cruise ship aground at Isola del Giglio: the role played by rescue helicopters
Update Jan. 16 21:37 GMT On Jan. 13, at around 21.45 LT, the Costa Concordia luxury cruise ship, ran aground on rocks off the Isola del Giglio Island. As a…
"The Eurofighter Typhoon will be the Indian Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft" Pakistani blog says. RUMINT, HUMINT or speculation?
Although an Indian Air Force spokeperson has quickly denied the news, according to a Pakistani blog "Grande Strategy", Eurofighter has won the Indian MMRCA tender, worth 10-15 billion USD for…
From Greece with love: Russia's aircraft carrier flight ops in the Mediterranean sea
If the Chinese aircraft carrier Varyag, serving as a testbed for the development China's future naval aviation, is far from being a factor, Russia’s flagship Admiral Kuznetsov, a "heavy aircraft-carrying…
KC-130J: a tactical gas station in the sky. Serving fighters, bombers, choppers. And maybe even F-35s sometime in the future.
On Jan. 10, I had the opportunity to take part to a refueling mission of a KC-130J of the 46^ Aerobrigata (Air Brigade) of the Italian Air Force involving several…
