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by JFoulke
05 Jan 2019, 15:04
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

A question, would M-345 be so much cheaper than M-346 so that Italian Air Force will have two pretty similar aircrafts in service? I think yes. I think these two is NOT pretty similar. M-345 is designed to be as cheap as a turbo flop trainer (not sure if it was successful). The original S211 was de...
by JFoulke
05 Jan 2019, 13:17
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

First Leonardo M-345 HET production aircraft performs its maiden flight : Starting as a private venture as S.211, and now evolved and becoming the MB339 replacement. Interesting. Also impressive is its "low-level" capability, to be coupled with M-346 Master as high-level one. Interesting ...
by JFoulke
05 Jan 2019, 12:08
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

First Leonardo M-345 HET production aircraft performs its maiden flight : Starting as a private venture as S.211, and now evolved and becoming the MB339 replacement. Interesting. Also impressive is its "low-level" capability, to be coupled with M-346 Master as high-level one. Interesting ...
by JFoulke
05 Jan 2019, 11:44
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

First Leonardo M-345 HET production aircraft performs its maiden flight : Starting as a private venture as S.211, and now evolved and becoming the MB339 replacement. Interesting. Also impressive is its "low-level" capability, to be coupled with M-346 Master as high-level one. Interesting ...
by JFoulke
12 Dec 2018, 12:55
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

Carrier Cavour in Taranto for refit

Cavour Aircraft Carrier upgrade and refit - 12/2018
by JFoulke
10 Dec 2018, 22:22
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

ArmChairCivvy wrote:
Lord Jim wrote: Since WW2
OK, time to 'moderate':
Think how conclusively we beat them... with a lot of WW1 designs coming into play :D
Probably he meant since the end of ww2
by JFoulke
10 Dec 2018, 15:34
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

Hey, here you can find the complete list of ships currently in construction for the Italian Navy.

Ships in construction for the Italian Navy - 12/2018
by JFoulke
06 Dec 2018, 18:14
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

serge750 wrote:Sounds a bit like what the UK T31 is going to be …. but you will get a towed sonar :clap:
Yeah, but I think it will be used for ASW duties only when all of the Virgilio Fasan or PPA Full class ships won’t be available to take on that role
by JFoulke
06 Dec 2018, 14:09
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

Here some news about the European Patrol Corvette

Italian Navy News 12/2018 - European Patrol Corvette
by JFoulke
05 Dec 2018, 16:08
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

But as has been pointed out the Italian Air Force will operate half of the F-35Bs and these are not to be usually operated off the Carrier. Yeah you are right in fact many people thinks that it will be used by navy pilots that has trained in landing aircrafts on ships when/if not enough F35B from t...
by JFoulke
05 Dec 2018, 12:16
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

Only half the F-35Bs are going to be in Italian Naval colours. I am not sure of the plans the Italians have for their Air Force, but the replacement of the Tornados seems the most likely one, complimenting the Typhoons. The F-35B will be operated by the same airbase for both the Airforce and Navy s...
by JFoulke
29 Nov 2018, 16:55
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

even accepted into service before the UK's T-26! Add salt to injury - and designate them as cruisers? I thinks it’s more due to it’s displacement, superior to the Ticonderoga class Cruisers and with the capability of deep strike (something that no Italian Destroyer is capable of except for the grou...
by JFoulke
29 Nov 2018, 11:36
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Hi guys, here a video about the next generation Destroyer for the Italian Navy
by JFoulke
30 Oct 2018, 12:03
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

News for the Italian Navy form the new Multiannual Programme Document/Documento Programmatico Pluriennale (DPP)
Italian Navy Update - DPP 2018/2020
by JFoulke
08 Sep 2018, 20:55
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

It’s Called SICRAL 2 and it’s quite a recent satellite
by JFoulke
08 Sep 2018, 15:14
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

About the satellites, which one is the joint Franco-Italian, the one that the French DefSec just complained about the Russian hacking attempts? And which one is the one that the Finns have bought a time-share in, errr, to keep track of forest fires that might spill over the border? The only one tha...
by JFoulke
08 Sep 2018, 11:55
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

Here the new and old aerospace reconnaissance and patrol assets available to the Italian Armed Forces. (only satellites and aircrafts) –---------------------------------------- The OPTSAT 3000 is an Optical reconnaissance Satellite launched in 2017 and has an expected lifetime of 7 years and was bui...
by JFoulke
30 Aug 2018, 12:53
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

I am not sure that full figures are in the public domain but I am pretty certain it doesn't equal one third of the Defence Budget. From what I can find the annual support costs for the UK's CASD are at most only 6% of the Budget so less than $4Bn per annum. Mind you we don't onw the Trident Missile...
by JFoulke
22 Aug 2018, 15:19
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

The change in type of unit, from 16 PPA to 7 PPA + 8/10 PPX , is probably due to the change in strategic vision in progress, less focused on the " enlarged Mediterranean " (from the Gulf of Guinea to the Indian Ocean), so PPAs were born, and more focused on the Mediterranean Sea , from wh...
by JFoulke
22 Aug 2018, 11:22
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

The change in type of unit, from 16 PPA to 7 PPA + 8/10 PPX , is probably due to the change in strategic vision in progress, less focused on the " enlarged Mediterranean " (from the Gulf of Guinea to the Indian Ocean), so PPAs were born, and more focused on the Mediterranean Sea , from wh...
by JFoulke
21 Aug 2018, 14:30
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

Hi everybody, there are some news of the Centauro II, the Freccia EVO and the Ariete MLU. Centauro II The first prototype of the Centauro II is already completed and 7 more will be the pre series. Other than the upgrade mentioned in my previous video, the remote HITROLE turret will be moved a little...
by JFoulke
17 Aug 2018, 11:42
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

By attention: Italian Navy planned for 16 PPA, but Parliament approved only 10 PPA (and only 7 funded). Now, PPX are planned for 8/10 units to replace the 3 PPA not funded, together with the others 6 PPA not yet authorized by Parliament. PPX will replace (between 2027/mid '30) Cassiopea, Comandanti...
by JFoulke
16 Aug 2018, 23:13
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

Some news of the Italian PPX program. The PPX is a program started to create a new class of light fregates to field together with the PPA and FREMM Class ships. The class will also be proposed on the market for export as a Fregate. The total displacement should be of 3,500 tons, it will be a little ...
by JFoulke
09 Aug 2018, 21:15
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

A news piece in Defense News " https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/08/03/with-size-and-anti-sub-capabilities-in-mind-italys-navy-rethinks-ship-designs/ " claims Italian navy seeks to "shrink" the last 3 PPA to either 3,000-ton patrol ships or 4,500-ton ASW ships. Now, with a ...
by JFoulke
17 Jul 2018, 11:54
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Italian Armed Forces
Replies: 936
Views: 61057
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Re: Italian Armed Forces

The new Italian missiles systems. The first missile we will take a look at is the CAMM-ER, this new missile is the future substitute of the airspace defence system Aspide This system is the evolution of the CAMM and it features almost double the range with approximately 40 Km. It will use the same R...