Following the successful completion of a test program, the
Italian Defence Ministry has accepted the first Alenia Aeronautica
C-27J tactical transport aircraft. The aircraft is part of a
12-unit contract that should be completed by 2008 to the Italian
Air Force 46th Wing, Pisa Air Force Base.
Raytheon Mini-Drone Successfully Launched from F-16
If a decoy works for duck hunters, you can imagine what the Air
Force can do with its shotgun. The Air Force is always looking for
ways to maintain air superiority and it really likes to kill SAMs
(surface-to-air missiles) that could harm its crews and
aircraft.
The French military reports one of its Breguet Atlantique 2
reconnaisance planes came under fire this week by a single
ground-to-air missile as it overflew the eastern section Chad,
where rebels hostile to the current political regime are
active.
Air Force pararescue is an elite force, but before its Airmen
are PJs they're trainees. And sometimes PJ training brings them to
the 920th Rescue Wing before they join the world of combat rescue.
Thirteen instructors and 20 pararescue trainees with the 342nd
Training Squadron traveled from Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., to
the 920th Rescue Wing to complete an air operations training block
Oct. 7-21.
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