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

May 16, 2011 David Cenciotti 3

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, Czech Republic, German, Hellenic, French, […]

Winter Hide 2011 at Grosseto

February 10, 2011 David Cenciotti 2

After publishing the first images of the RDAF (Royal Danish Air Force) F-16s deploying to Grosseto in a previous article, on Feb. 7, 2011, I visited Grosseto airbase to see the Danish F-16AM and BM […]

First Italian COMAO in Afghanistan

January 31, 2009 David Cenciotti 0

On Jan 18, for the first time since the beginning of the Italian involvement in the Afghan theatre, the Joint Air Task Force (JATF) of the RC-W (Regional Command – West) planned and perfomed a […]