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Since there aren't any large threads for FREMM already, I figured I would create one specifically to discuss the background and development of the FREMM-EVO, a pair of interim frigates ordered for the Marina Militare Italiana. Background: Before we talk about the FREMM-EVO, we should talk...

I have an original brochure from this company which contants sketches+ technical details form ships they built or could built. I can make photographs if someone is interested

Project Musher Airbus Helicopters and its partners have conducted a full scale demonstration of a manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) system developed as part of a project funded by the European Union and code-named MUSHER. The demonstration took place in France and Italy from 30 September to 9...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/19/how-sicily-superyacht-survivor-saved-daughter/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/19/four-britons-missing-yacht-sicily-live-latest/

Hello and good day to everyone. This thread was created in order to gain info about the new Italian army MBT and IFV projects currently in development. Background: Since 2023, Italy started to look for new solutions for modernize it's armored compartments. The program aim to acquire two type...

Siderius is a Italian company that works on Micro sat launcher that brings 10~13 kg payload into orbit design as reusable single stage to orbit rocket using Kerolox engines View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cq1WOT8e4 source https://www.sidereus.space/eos/

Currently, the Italian Carrier Strike Group "Gruppo Navale 31" after a short stop in Singapore is participating to the "Pitch Black" exercise with the Australian Navy. The CSG 31 is composed by the aircraft carirer (and flagship) ITS Count of Cavour and by the FREMM Alpino, the Cavour has a...

China playing a stupid game. We can always give them drone problems from their neighbours too. https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2024/07/02/italy-seizes-chinese-military-drones-heading-to-libya-authorities-say/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_dfn This has classic...

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The AW249 Fenice is an Italian attack helicopter designed and realized by the Italian company Leonardo. It was made to replace the A129 Mangusta within the Italian army. It made its first flight in 2022, and now we have two prototypes flying, with two more to come in the upcoming years. The...

According to McNab (2012), the Stabilimento Militare Armi Leggere Terni or SMALT had produced a conversion kit to adapt the MG 42/59 GPMG (Italy's license-produced version of the MG 42 / MG 3) to 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition (p. 25). Uncited entries on Wikipedia claimed that the conversion kit...

As the Tempest II and F-X programs merged into the GCAP, I think that it's better to create a specific topic. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/tempest-uk-future-fighter-programme.30547/ https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/japanese-next-generation-fighter-studies-aka-i3-f-3.11566/...

https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2021/09/03/italian-police-raid-drone-maker-over-alleged-chinese-takeover/ TLDR: Alpi Aviation, manufacturer of the Strix, which is used by Italian SF, was bought for an inflated price in 2018, by a Hong Kong based front company for two Chinese state owned...

So we know some time in the early 80s, France split with the UK, West Germany, Italy and Spain, and developed the ACX into the Rafale, and the others made the Typhoon. the disagreement stemmed from a carrier variant. What if in this scenario, France never left and somehow the five of them...

I found info about the A118 compound helicopter project (circa 1960) in a book (in Italian) on history of Italian contributions to mechanical engineering, with an interesting chapter devoted to helicopters. Further material, including the real blueprints, should be available at the museum of...

Hi all, A thread to discuss Tornado (Panavia) stories etc. Mods if you feel this should be in the bar instead please move.

More of a question. Come 1948 Italy was in the process of taking some first steps to rearming as part of the cold war. While apparently Italian companies had at least some paper projects for domestic aircraft, Piaggio P.146 has has been mentioned here before, AMI decided to license produce...

"AW609 closer to certification" 2015-03-31 09:32:51 by Robert Erdos Source: http://www.verticalmag.com/news/article/AW609closertocertification

Aermacchi was an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Established originally in 1912 as the Nieuport-Macchi S.A. by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy. It was later known as Aeronautica Macchi S.p.A. During the firms formative years Macchi worked closely with engine designer Vittorio...

May 29, 1968 hit the News that Charles DeGaulle die in a Helicopter crash near Baden-Baden, Germany The unstable Political scene and struggle for his successor and let to a civil war. Between the right wing, conservative and Army against Left wing socialist, Communist, labor unions and students...