Analisi difesa number 8
Defense Analisys
Nr. 8
- YUGOSLAVIA TOWARDS A DIFFICULT TRANSITION
Nothing more than a farce where all the actors interpret down in bottom their role, pretending to believe in what they say and in which the Serbian people risk to being only an extra. This seems to be the budget of the Yugoslavian elections of which...
000 - EDITORIAL
- YUGOSLAVIA TOWARDS A DIFFICULT TRANSITION
...- FIRST F 16 PROPOSED TO ITALIAN AIR FORCE
The government of Italy has requested a possible sale of four F-16A Block 10 operational capabilities upgrade (OCU) aircraft for cannibalisation, four Pratt and Whitney F-100-PW-200 spare engines, four AN/APG-66 radar sets, spare and repair parts, de... - FRANCE RELAUNCHES IN THE ITALIAN FIGHTER COMPETITION
France relaunches and offers in favourable conditions a unspecified number of Mirage 2000 to the Italian Air Force in the research of a fighter "ad interim" that replace obsolete F 104 ASA/M and, from 2004, Tornado ADV that will be given ba... - ITALIAN FORCES WILL OPERATE IN UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN ETHIOPIA-ERITREA
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced the August 31th the list of 19 countries will contribute to the UNMEE (UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea): Italy, Algeria, Austria, Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Peru, Poland, Romania,... - KOSOVO- ITALY LEAD K-FOR WHILE THE TENSION BEFORE THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS INCREASES
The increase of the tension in Kosovo before the municipal elections scheduled for October 28 arouses not little worries in NATO, UN and OSCE but also in Italy because the Army maintains in the area approximately 7,500 military and from the middle of... - NEW CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE " FRIULI " BRIGADE
After more than two years of service in the air Brigade "Friuli", including the period of participation in NATO operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina (SFOR) and Albania (COMMZW), the lieutenant colonel Federico D' Apuzzo leaves the grand unit to... - THE 66TH REGIMENT LEAVES FOR KOSOVO
With the embarks at the port of Ravenna and at the airport of Bologna, have begun in the end of September the departures for the Kosovo of the first military of the 66th airmobile infantry regiment "TRIESTE" based in Forlì. It is a r...
001 - ITALIAN ANALYSIS
- A NEW PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN THE BALKANS
During the summit of SEDM (South Eastern European Defense Ministerial) in Salonicco on October 10, the Balkan states have announced the launch of a joint force in brigade size to manage the Peace Support and humanitarian operations. The Brigade, comp... - ANOTHER WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
FORCES IN FIELD ISRAEL: 170,000 men (+ 650,000 reservists) 1,000 tanks (+ 2000 in riserve), 5,500 armored, 3000 pieces of artillery, 330 combat jets F 15 and F 16 (+ 200 F 4, A 4 and Kfir in Reserve), 100 attack helicopters, 150 multirole helicopters... - MILITARY NEWS FROM RUSSIA AND EX USSR
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT TO MEET RUSSIAN CHIEF-OF-STAFF IN MOSCOW 26.09.00 MOSCOW September 26 (AVN) Visiting Armenian President Robert Kocharyan will meet Russian Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin here on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Russian Defence Ministr... - MOSCOW REDUCES THE MILITARY FORCES TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY
Reducing the ranks and numbers to guarantee quality, efficiency and above all better security conditions. These restructuration objectives of the Armed forces announced by Vladimnir Putin who has also a pure political scope to make to forget the Kur... - PARAMILITARY COURSES FOR RUSSIAN STUDENTS
The Kursk submarine incident and the methods used by the military political high officials of Moscow to favour the disinformation and to make quiet the protests of the victim’s families have even raised the doubt to many international observers... - SWITZERLAND IS READY TO FACE A PROFOND REFORM OF THE ARMED FORCES
The most part of the European Armed Forces is in a phase of transformation according to general tendency toward the instruments composed of volunteers, the reduction of effectives, the reorganization of the defensive components and enlarging reaction... - THE PROLIFERATION OF THE NBC WEAPONS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA
The proliferation of missiles and weapons of mass destruction or NBC -(nuclear, biological and chemical) - has in the Mediterranean area its main development. Apart from the ambitions and more or less threatening regional domination plans of some lea... - THE REORGANIZATION OF THE SLOVAKIAN DEFENSE
The invitation to become the thirtieth member of the Organization for the economic cooperation and the development, received in Paris in occasion of the board meeting of the OECD in the end of July, and the favourable report of the International Mone...
002 - WORLD ANALYSIS
- A NEW PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN THE BALKANS
- CHINESE WEAPONS TO UZBEKISTAN
A very tight military relation between Beijing and Uzbekistan, the ex-Soviet republic in front line confronting the Islamic terrorism supported by the Afghan Talebans. The recent Chinese war supplies comprising light weapons, vehicles, nocturnal view... - CRISIS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GEORGIA FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST THE TERRORISM
The Interior Ministers of the countries adherent of the Community of the Independent States (ex USSR) met each other in Kyrghizistan to discuss a common strategy against the Islamic terrorism whose activities threaten more and more the stability of t... - THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES IN CRISIS AREAS
In the previous article, we had handled the themes regarding the series of events that induce a company engaged in theatres of crisis to avail itself of the collaboration of a Security Coordinator and undertaken the analysis of the real problems that... - TRAFFICS OF CREWS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Australian intelligence sources have confirmed the increasing number of war weapons coming from Indonesia and smuggled in Papua New Guinea in exchange of marijuana. They would be above all the tribal movements of the inside and the organized gangster...
003 - SECURITY ANALYSIS
- CHINESE WEAPONS TO UZBEKISTAN
- ALENIA AEROSPAZIO COMPLETES FIRST WING FOR FIRST EUROFIGHTER PRODUCTION RUN
Alenia Aerospazio has completed the left wing of the first production run Eurofighter at its Caselle facility. The wing will be delivered within a few days to BAE Systems for final assembly of the first of 620 aircraft ordered by the Air Forces of th... - ALENIA MARCONI SYSTEM: ASPIDE IN ACTION IN MALAYSIAN EXERCISE
Alenia Marconi Systems ulteriorly consolidates its commercial position in the Southeast Asia. In fact, in continuation of an important naval exercise by Malaysian Navy, the military high officials of the country have shown the enthusiasm for technica... - FARNBOROUGH 2000
In spite of the unusual course period (in July rather than September) and the French defense industry's defection, the edition of the Farnborough Aerospace '2000 recorded a good number of new developments, also in the military sector. From the politi... - NEW RESEARCH PROGRAMMES ENTRUSTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO ALENIA AEROSPAZIO
Within the framework of the 5th Outline Programme on Research, the European Commission appointed Alenia Aerospazio/Finmeccanica as the leader in two important programmes for the development of new aeronautical technologies aimed at improving air tran...
004 - INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
- ALENIA AEROSPAZIO COMPLETES FIRST WING FOR FIRST EUROFIGHTER PRODUCTION RUN
- ESERCITAZIONE ARRCADE FUSION PER IL CORPO DI REAZIONE RAPIDA NATO
RHEINDHALEN Germania - Il Comando Del Corpo di reazione Rapida del Comando Alleato In Europa, composto da unità provenienti da 10 dei 19 paesi membri della NATO ha pianificato un'esercitazione a fuoco di 14 giorni che si terrà nella re... - EXERCISE CENTRASBAT 2000
Servicemembers from the U.S. Central Command will join forces with Central Asian military services in Almaty, Kazakhstan, from Sept. 10 through 18, 2000 where they will participate in peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance field exercise CENTRASBAT... - THE USA REINFORCES THE BASES OF GUAM
The United States reinforce the base of Guam and seem to aim a general reinforcement of the military presence in the Pacific where more than 100,000 military is disposed (more in Japan and Korea). In the end of August, there arrived 62 cruise missile... - U.S. FORCES WILL REST IN SOUTH KOREA
The historic meeting in June between South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Chong-il carries much promise for the people of both Koreas. U.S. officials said the ongoing dialogue will inevitably mean changes for the 37,000 U.S...
005 - NEWS
- ESERCITAZIONE ARRCADE FUSION PER IL CORPO DI REAZIONE RAPIDA NATO
- RUMANIA PROTESTS THE HUNGARIAN MINORITY FOR THE NEW MILITARY POSITION
Although the reorganization and the Rumanian Armed Forces preview a substantial cut of the staff for the next entering of the Balkan country in the NATO, the Defense Ministry of Bucharest has planned to reinforce the garrisons located in the province... - TERRORISTS HIT THE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE BUILDING
LONDON - (Adnkronos) - A massive inquiry is in course in London about the attack launched on the heart of the British intelligence agencies on Wednesday evening when a small dimention missile was launched on the center of the MI6 and made an explosio... - UKRAINE SELLS STRATEGIC WEAPONS TO RUSSIA
”The United States will not finance any more the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal if Ukraine continues to transfer the nuclear bombers to Russia". With this declaration released to the Interfax press agency, the American Ambassador Steve...
006 - INDISCREET
- RUMANIA PROTESTS THE HUNGARIAN MINORITY FOR THE NEW MILITARY POSITION
