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General Tricarico: not enough Italian airplanes, helicopters, UAVs in Afghanistan

Rome , Italy - Choppers like the EH-101 are lacking; the others have to be empowered and/or armed

Landed this morning at Rome-Ciampino airport, the C-130 aircraft carrying the bodies of the first corporals Gianmarco Manca, Francesco Vannozzi, Sebastiano Ville and Marco Pedone, dead in the district of Gulistan, about 200 km from the region Farah, Afghanistan, on October 9th, in an attack claimed by the Taliban. To welcome the return to the Country of the corpses, the highest State and military...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1121653
Rome, Italy, 10/11/2010 18:04
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