On 3 April 2025, the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy is issuing a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 185th Parachute Reconnaissance and Target Acquisition Regiment "FOLGORE", known as the 185th RRAO, a unit of the Italian Army belonging to the Special Forces, specialised in advanced reconnaissance and target acquisition operations in highly critical environments. Features of the stamp The [...]
Saturday 12 April will be a date destined to go down in the history of parachuting. At the Aeroclub of Ferrara, also home to the Ferrara Parachute School, a spectacular event will be staged: the launch of the largest flag ever flown by a parachutist, a good 3300 square metres of Italian tricolour. Attempting the feat will be Paolo Filippini, [...]
Rome, 30 March 2025 - More than fifteen years after its launch, Operation 'Strade Sicure' could be about to undergo a substantial evolution. This is what emerges from the hearing of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Luciano Portolano, before the parliamentary commissions convened to discuss Italy's military missions for 2025. Operation Strade Sicure, born in times [...]
Orbetello (GR), 27 March 2025 - A 37-year-old military parachutist was injured on the afternoon of 27 March during an exercise at the Parrina airfield in the municipality of Orbetello. The accident occurred around 5pm, at the end of a planned jump. According to an initial reconstruction, the soldier suffered fractures to his lower limbs, [...].
From trench warfare to hypersonic drones. The battlefield of the future is no longer just a prediction, but a rapidly changing reality that demands immediate and coordinated responses. This is the message that emerged from the conference 'A look upwards into the battlefield of the future', organised by CeSI - Centro Studi Internazionali [...]
The 2025 Annual Report of the US Intelligence Services outlines an increasingly complex and dangerous world in which threats multiply and intertwine. From organised crime to terrorism, from traditional wars to new technological challenges, the United States faces a global environment where any crisis can become a fuse for escalation [...]
PARIS - Denmark has announced plans to join a European consortium of in-flight refuelling tanker aircraft, including the possible purchase of two Airbus A330 MRTT aircraft. Danish participation in this joint capacity is estimated to cost around DKK 7.4 billion (USD 1.1 billion) over the period 2025-2033. The [...]
Stocks of food, water, medicines and batteries for at least 72 hours. The European Union is preparing to officially ask citizens of member states to organise themselves to survive the first three days independently in the event of an emergency. The measure - which at first reading may seem excessive - is part of a much broader context [...].
Airbus has unveiled its new European drone, based on a small unmanned aircraft used for training over 20 years ago. LOAD (Low-Cost Air Defence) is the new 'anti-drone drone' designed to address one of the key challenges of modern air defence: reducing the cost of intercepting low-cost drones with traditional high-cost systems [...]
The Italian government has announced its intention to transform the Shengjin and Gjader immigrant hotspots into Centri di Permanenza per i Rimpatri (CPR). Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said: 'The transformation into CPRs will be done without losing the original function'. According to Piantedosi, this move has already led to a 35% increase in repatriations [...]
