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Typhoon Block 5 and Cold War alert
Claudio Carretta left an interesting comment on my post Eurofighter Typhoon activity at Grosseto advising that among the aircraft spotted on Aug. 6, MM7285 “4-16″ was the first Eurofighter Typhoon...
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Grosseto airbase
Grosseto airbase has changed a lot in the last 10 years. As described in my previous posts, today the airport it is the MOB of the ItAF Eurofighters (the Gioia del Colle and its 12th Gruppo/36th Stormo...
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Close encounters (snapshots from the Cold War)
As written in a previous post (Typhoon Block 5 and Cold War alert) on Aug. 17th, Russia begun 20 hours long strategic flights around the globe, like those carried out during the Cold War. So far, no...
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Two ItAF F-16s intercept an Ukrainan liner
While being widely involved in the Ex. Spring Flag 2008, the Italian Air Force ensures the SSSA (Servizio Sorveglianza Spazio Aereo, Airspace Surveillance Service) with its F-16s and F-2000A ready to...
View ArticleAnother Scramble for the Italian F-16s
On Apr. 18, a Kuwaitian C-130 UK-bound, coming from Athens and crossing the Italian airspace was intercepted by two F-16s of the 5th Stormo. The Italian fighters took off from Cervia, intercepted the...
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Supersonic scramble for the Italian F-16s
Today, two Trapani based F-16s belonging to the 37 Stormo were scrambled to intercept a Lufthansa flight transiting through the Italian airspace. LH8619T, was flying from Milan Linate to Athinai, when...
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A RAF C-130 intercepted by 2 ItAF F-16s
On June 20, a RAF C-130 flying from Lyneham to Cyprus, was intercepted by a flight of 2 F-16s of the 37° Stormo. The British aircraft had lost the radio contact with the Italian Air Traffic Control...
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Another supersonic scramble
Even if in the F-104 age there were many scrambles, I remember that only a few times the interceptor “broke” the sound barrier during the mission. Even in the post 911 period, until 2004, under...
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An Italian Typhoon intercepts a Primera Air B-737
On Jul. 10, 2009, a Primera Air Boeing 737-700, with registration TF-JXG, flying as GX-362 flight, from Zakinthos (Greece) to Dublin (Ireland), with 153 passengers and 6 crew members, was escorted by a...
View ArticleTwo pilots shocked to find German Typhoons hot on their tail
Two pilots flying what they thought was a routine flight to Germany for servicing of their Embraer Phenom executive jet had more than they bargained for when two Luftwaffe Typhoons appeared on their...
View ArticleAudio: U.S. Air Force F-15s scramble to intercept United Airlines Boeing 767...
On Jul. 31, two F-15s were scrambled from Barnes Air National Guard Base, when United Airlines Flight 956, a Boeing 767 with registration N654UA and 157 passengers on board, flying from Newark to...
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Following bomb threat two Italian Typhoon jets perform supersonic scramble to...
Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoon in QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) were scrambled to intercept and escort MEA214 flight that reported a bomb threat aboard. Two loud sonic booms were heard at around 1.45PM...
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