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  1. Moose

    Italian Navy DDX

    The Italian Navy is planning a pair of 10,000 ton Destroyers, known for the time being as DDX. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2020/11/09/italy-plans-new-destroyers-for-2028-delivery/ These would be the largest surface combatants built in Western Europe since the 40s.
  2. !Mark

    Fidia Piattelli aircraft designations

    Hi, Fidia Piattelli was an italian engineer, born in 1907, most famous for his role as vice-director of Caproni's Technical Office, but he also worked at CMASA (FIAT), at General Aircraft (in the UK) and was lieutenant of the Genio Aeronautico. He wrote for many magazines like "Rivista...
  3. RavenOne

    Austria picks Leonardo AW169M

    The Bundesheer have selected the AW169M to replace their legacy OH-58C Kiowa And Aerospatiale Alouette III https://www.bundesheer.at/cms/artikel.php?ID=10583 cheers
  4. B

    Panavia Tornado

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

    European Patrol Corvette (EPC)

    https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2020/02/07/spain-seen-joining-greece-france-italy-on-european-patrol-corvette-program/
  6. M

    Italian secret projects

    I think everybody know about M11/39 or P.26/40,but there's lot of secret projects.So,i was searching for secret italian projects/prototypes for more than 2 years.Here's my finds: Name:AB42 Name:Carro M13...
  7. archipeppe

    The Real Sparviero Aircraft Carrier

    Italian Navy during WWII started the conversion of the two almost-sister ocean liners ROMA and AUGUSTUS (they had only different engines), they was turned into AQUILA and SPARVIERO. While the AQUILA was pratically finished (even if not still entered in service) when Italian signed the Armistice...
  8. archipeppe

    The first "Trieste"

    In "Storia Militare" n. 196 (January 2010) Enrico Cernuschi described the unknown project of an early Italian helicopter/VTOL carrier of 60's. During 1965 the Italian Navy seriously considered the possibility to modify the proposed second "Vittorio Veneto" cruiser into a sort of small carrier...
  9. P

    Italian Submarines 1895-Present

    What can the dozens of experts tell me about Italian designed and built submarines?
  10. flateric

    Leonardo M-346 Thread

    DATE:13/01/11 SOURCE:Flight International Alenia Aermacchi tests low radar cross-section kit for M-346 By Luca Peruzzi Alenia Aermacchi has completed a low radar cross-section research project on its M-346 Master advanced jet trainer and light combat aircraft, the company says. A series of...
  11. Triton

    AgustaWestland AW609

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

    Italian Navy PAM

    Artist's impressions of Pattugliatori d'Altura Multiruolo (PAM), or "Offshore Patrol Multirole", for the Italian Navy. Source: http://regiamarinaitaliana.forumgratis.org/index.php?&showtopic=791 http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4856&start=10...
  13. M

    Italian stealth aircraft

    http://www.mp.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/ewade/2002/Handout.pdf An evolution of the SCALT already spoken on this topic: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,17388.msg166568.html#msg166568
  14. Grey Havoc

    Piaggio P.1HH HammerHead

    [IMAGE CREDIT: Gizmodo/ Piaggio Aero Industries] http://gizmodo.com/5985484/italian-jet-company-converts-passenger-plane-into-the-worlds-most-stylish-uav
  15. D

    Supersonic Combat Affordable Light Trainer by Politecnico di Torino

    Supersonic Combat Affordable Light Trainer (SCALT) was a school project at the Politecnico di Torino. It was presented at an aeronautical engineering conference in 2000 and the configuration drawing shows a single Honeywell F125 engine installed at an angle.
  16. N

    Mechanical Mules and Infantry Servers for Italian armed forces

    Hi friends, trying to give some order in my archives I found e potential topic for this forum, related to lesser known light multi-purpose vehicles for Italian armed forces. The first I found was not secret nor only prototype as it served with several Stormi or Aerobrigate (corresponding to the...
  17. M

    Italian prototypes and never built

    I will start to report news on Italian prototypes, that although numerous, appear to be little known We start from the family of vehicles OF-40 The OF40 is a tank that was produced in small quantities for export markets, from its platform, however, were derived means very interesting: OF-40...
  18. Triton

    Enrico Fermi

    Two-view drawing of the proposed nuclear-powered Italian Navy ship Enrico Fermi. Source: http://s11.invisionfree.com/shipbucket/index.php?showtopic=2913
  19. airman

    a C-130J crashed on Pisa - my town

    A C-130J has gone down during a training ! :( http://www.gonews.it/articolo_44147_Dalle-scatole-nere-perch-della-sciagura-aerea.html...
  20. S

    Eurofighter Typhoon

    This is an article about the Eurofighter Typhoon's capabilities in air combat written by ME. The informations contained into this article are based on officially published data! The article is a not a direct comparison vs other aircraft types and the informations contained might not be to 100%...
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