Analisi difesa number 27
Defense Analisys
Nr. 27
002 - WORLD ANALYSIS
- 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...
011 - ENDURING FREEDOM
- 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...
