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Aviation

New Boeing KC-767 makes its combat debut in Libya

As I've already written many times on my Unified Protector (previously Odyssey Dawn) "column" on this blog (and on Twitter too...), under a military/technological point of view the war in…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 20, 2011
Military Aviation

Stealth Black Hawk crash landing in Abbottabad could be (alarmingly) similar to a tail strike episode occurred to 160th SOAR in Iraq

Take a look at the following screenshots taken from a Youtube video taken with a helmet-mounted camera by US Special Forces (Delta Force's A Sqn) rescuing Italian and Polish contractors…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 19, 2011
Italian Air Force

ItAF contributes to the "Bomb factory detection by Networks of Advanced Sensors" project to counter homemade IEDs

With the ItAF formally accepting into service the first two KC-767A tankers (that were delivered on Dec. 29, 2010 and Mar. 10, 2011), it went almost unnoticed the news that…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 19, 2011
Aviation Safety

The Stealth Chinook involved in the Osama Bin Laden raid and why the Stealth Black Hawk crashed in Abbottabad

An interesting article published yesterday by the Associated Press and commented by Wired/Danger Room, provided some interesting details about the Osama Bin Laden raid. Indeed, anonymous government sources have told…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 18, 2011

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
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