Smile and say "cheese": postcards from the "Black Cats"
After publishing the video taken by an Italian AMX over Afghanistan I've received, through the Italian Air Force Press Office the following pictures taken by the Task Group "Black Cats",…
Italian Air Force secret involvement in Vietnam war?
In the last week I had the opportunity to discuss about his researches with Mr. Diego Verdegiglio who is currently writing a book about the Italian involvement in the Vietnam…
C-17 Gear up landing in Bagram: the aircraft accident investigation board report
On Jan. 30, 2009, a C-17A tail number 60002 landed at Bagram air base in Afghanistan with the landing gear retracted. A few days after the mishap I published some…
AMX over Afghanistan on board video
A video, showing the images recorded by a Recce Lite pod of an AMX and transmitted to a ground unit equipped with a Remote Optical Video Enhanced Receiver (ROVER) via…
F-16I Sufa and the IAF deployments overseas
After reading my latest posts about the Israeli detachment to Decimomannu for the Vega 2010 exercise, Matteo Marianeschi sent me the following pictures of the two Israeli Air Force F-16I…
Interesting “hardware” brought to Decimomannu by the Israeli Air Force
Needless to say, the recent partecipation of the Israeli Air Force in Vega 2010 (VEX 10) exercise attracted the interest of aircraft enthusiasts and spotters who were delighted to see…
