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Italian PSYOPS mission over Libya

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 18, 2011
Aviation

Stealth Black Hawk updated rendering: 1978 document suggests a different shape for the modified UH-60

This is how the Stealth Black Hawk (dubbed also "Silent Hawk") could look like based on the analysis of all the information available to date. It is sensibly different from…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 17, 2011

NATO Tiger Meet 2011: a real exercise with some interesting "hardware" rather than a gathering of friends

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,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 16, 2011
Military Aviation

The white FEST C-32 to Andrews AFB using an FBI callsign on a "black" mission?

Once again a Foreign Emergency Support Team C-32 (B757) with registration 02-4452, belonging to the 227 SOF (Special Operations Flight) based at McGuire AFB, NJ, appeared on both FlightRadar24 and…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 15, 2011
Aviation

Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 43 – 54)

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 12, 2011
Aviation

The aircraft you don't expect to see on Flightradar24: another "black" C-32

Yesterday at 19.45 GMT Today at 22.19 GMT: Looks like Foreign Emergency Support Team C-32s are quite active these days......and doesn't care about transmitting their information directly in the Public…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 9, 2011
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