Analisi difesa number 27
Defense Analisys
Nr. 27
- NEW HEADINGS IN STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION FOR THE ITALIAN AIR FORCE
Law N° 25/1997, better known as ”Legge dei Vertici“, defining in essence the unity of command of the Italian Armed Forced, didn’t just paved the path to a quasi revolution in the structure and the organization of the Ministry of... - THE OVERSEAS OPERATIONS OF THE ITALIAN AIR FORCE - INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL GIOVANNI SCIANDRA
Bagram- August 2002 The visit to the 4th ROA of General Giovanni Sciandra, since August of 1999 commander of the Air Force Operative Command, has made for the ANALISI DIFESA an optimal chance to view the increasing presence of the A.M.I. contingents...
001 - ITALIAN ANALYSIS
- NEW HEADINGS IN STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION FOR THE ITALIAN AIR FORCE
- EGYPT AND LIBYA DISCUSS JOINT SPY SATELLITE
Egypt wants Libya to help fund a joint program for the manufacture and launch of a spy satellite. Officials said the Egyptian request is being discussed with Tripoli as part of the current talks on scientific cooperation. Last month, the Egyptian-Lib... - GLOBAL RANGE AIRCRAFT FOR USAF
The widening gap between Europe and the United States is going to get larger, not only in the fighter technology evolution, but also on the ground of the future transport aircraft. While European countries are giving birth to the new A.400, to replac... - NATO MUST PLAN FOR FUTURE ROLE, ROBERTSON TELLS MINISTERS
WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 24, 2002 -- The Cold War is over and NATO must now plan and prepare for 21st century challenges such as terrorism, the alliance's senior leader said here today. Kicking off two days of informal defense ministerial meetings, Secr... - STRATEGIC AGREEMENTS AMONG NORTH KOREA, SYRIA AND LIBYA
North Korea aims to reinforce the export of strategic arms to the Middle East not only for obvious economic reasons but also to obstruct the US compaign aginst the countries which are developing missile nuclear, biological and chemical projects. This... - TOWARDS THE ESCALATION OF THE CRISIS IN THE CASPIAN SEA?
Tehran deploys the fleet in the Caspian Sea and provokes an escalation in the crisis with Azerbaijan for the control of the off-shore oil field and that risks to involve also Turkmenistan and Russia. The naval reinforcement of Iran has a clear goal t... - U.S. ARMY EXHIBITS SHADOW UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2002 -- The war in Afghanistan has proven the abilities of military unmanned aerial vehicles. The Army showed off its newest UAV at a static display at the Pentagon Sept. 24. The Shadow 200 is a tactical vehicle meant to accompa...
002 - WORLD ANALYSIS
- EGYPT AND LIBYA DISCUSS JOINT SPY SATELLITE
- HEZBOLLAH INCREASING THREATS TO ISRAEL
The Iranian decision to reinforce the military aid to the Lebanese Party Hezbollah alarms Israeli. Tehran has financed recently 150 million dollars to supply equipment and to create training centers engaging heavy field rockets Fajr 5 capable of hitt... - NEW AUSTRALIAN COUNTER-TERRORIST UNIT
Defence Minister Robert Hill today launched two new counter-terrorist units based at Holsworthy Barracks in Sydney that have the capability to respond to national security threats. The Incident Response Regiment and the east coast-based Tactical Assa...
003 - SECURITY ANALYSIS
- HEZBOLLAH INCREASING THREATS TO ISRAEL
- FIRST SERIES PRODUCTION EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON (ST001) COMPLETES ENGINES TESTING
Hallbergmoos - 25 September 2002 Eurofighter GmbH today announced completion of engine test runs on the first twin seat series production Eurofighter Typhoon that will be delivered to the Spanish Air Force. This key milestone marks a major step towar... - SOUTH AFRICA OFFERS SURPLUS WEAPONS TO MIDEAST
South Africa is offering prospective Middle East clients surplus military platforms. Officials said Pretoria is offering such countries as Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates a range of systems. They said these include f...
004 - INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
- FIRST SERIES PRODUCTION EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON (ST001) COMPLETES ENGINES TESTING
- COMBAT BOAT 90 - WORLD BEATER
More than ten years ago revised Swedish defence planning called for a radical increase in the mobility of coastal defence forces. As a result, the Combat Boat 90 project began, developed by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). A conce... - FOUR NEW MULTINATIONAL RAPIDLY DEPLOYABLE
SHAPE Headquarters, Casteau 23 September 2002 -- Four new land-based, rapidly deployable headquarters capable of commanding forces of up to 60,000 personnel on operations were today designated as NATO international military headquarters. This brings... - POLAND TO TAKE ADVISORY ROLE WITH NEW NATO MEMBERS
WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 24, 2002 -- Poland will play an important role in advising the military of any new nations accepted into NATO, a senior U.S. defense official said here Sept. 23. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld met with Polish Presiden... - U.S. OFFERS TURKEY ROLE IN NATO MISSILE DEFENSE
The United States has offered Turkey a major role in a NATO missile defense system. Turkish officials said the U.S. Defense Department has held a series of briefings for Turkish and other NATO envoys on Washington's proposal for a missile defense umb...
005 - NEWS
- COMBAT BOAT 90 - WORLD BEATER
- AUSTRALIAN PERSONNEL HOME SAFELY FROM KYRGYZSTAN DEPLOYMENT
A three-month tour of duty for Royal Australian Air Force personnel, deployed as part of Australia's commitment to the international coalition against terrorism, came to an end today when they returned home to RAAF Base Richmond. Prime Minister, the... - OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
Recently, the operations are reduced and currently they are operating specially along the pakistan border and in the region of Khost where there have been found out a huge quantity of arms, ammunitions, artilleries and even armoured aircraft hidden i... - REPORTAGE - AT BAGRAM WITH THE ITALIAN AIR FORCE…. WAITING FOR ALPINI
Bagram (Afghanistan)- August 2002 Evasive manoeuvres of the C 130J of the AMI (Aeronautica Militare Italiana - Italian Air Force) to elude possible portable anti-aircraft missiles tells imminent landing in Bagram, the air base north of Kabul which ac... - THE ‘ENDURING FREEDOM’ FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN
August 2002 The task force 180 has about 10,000 men on the Afghan territory and 6,000 of them are US men and about 3,500 of them coming from 16 allied countries: Australia: 150 special forces units and 2 tanker aircraft B 707 in Manas (kyrgyzstan)... - U.S. PERSONNEL COME UNDER FIRE IN AFGHANISTAN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2002 -- With all the attention riveted on Iraq, U.S. forces continue their jobs in Afghanistan. "It is still a dangerous area," a DoD official said. On Sept. 20, a firebase near Lwara came under rocket and small-arms f...
011 - ENDURING FREEDOM
- AUSTRALIAN PERSONNEL HOME SAFELY FROM KYRGYZSTAN DEPLOYMENT
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