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Russia Expels Italian Diplomat in Tit-For-Tat Move Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202104261082727098-russia-expels-italian-diplomat-in-tit-for-tat-move/ According to an official statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, a staff member from the Italian Embassy will have to leave the country in 24 hours. Moscow has declared an Italian diplomat persona non grata, responding to a similar step by Rome. "On 26 April, Italian Ambassador Pasquale Terracciano was handed a note fr...

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. April 1, 2021 Mooring retrieved on board the Svalbard (photo credit: Daniel Fatnes of the Norwegian Coast Guard) Who do you call when you need a job done on short notice, in total darkness, under 100-percent ice cover, thousands of meters at the bottom of the sea? In the case of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), you call your friends in Norway. That is exactly what the Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral Lorin C. Selby did when he enl...

[ Editor’s Note: We are going to be mixing in more of our archival articles, especially by those who have passed on, many of them great talents, and sadly we are not seeing them replaced by equal quality often enough. Alan Hart was one of those. He saw some of the Israeli-Arab wars up close and personal, including front line reporting from the Suez Canal when the British intervened. The year was 1967, when I was heading from Berkshire School to NC State, on the front end of my travels. From h...

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Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier Arrived At Naval Station Norfolk In Preparation For The F-35B Certification Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier Arrived At Naval Station Norfolk In Preparation For The F-35B Certification U.S. Sailors, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), greet the Italian Navy flagship, aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550), as it arrives at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Feb. 13, 2021. The Cavour’s visit is part of a series of operations alon...

Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier To Start F-35B STOVL Aircraft Qualifications With The U.S. Marine Corps Next Month Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier To Start F-35B STOVL Aircraft Qualifications With The U.S. Marine Corps Next Month The Italian Navy Cavour aircraft carrier. (Image credit: Marina Militare) The Cavour aircraft carrier will carry out F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) qualification off the U.S. East Coast. The Italian Navy Cavour aircraft carrier is about to star...

January 13, 2021 The Italian Navy is all set to begin qualification trials and training for F-35B Lightning II aircraft onboard its aircraft carrier Cavour, the Naval attache at the Italian Embassy informed during a virtual symposium. Cavour, the flagship of the Italian Navy, would reach the Naval Station Norfolk next month to commence F-35B STOVL qualifications with the United States Marine Corps. Currently, the vessel carries 10 AV-8B Harrier II aircraft and can support only fixed-wing V/STOL...

Additional reporting by Luca Peruzzi This was announced by Captain Gianfranco Vizzini, Naval Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC, during the Surface Navy Association (SNA) 2021 virtual Symposium.  “The major issue for 2021 is the ITS Cavour, our major carrier, that will be deployed here in the United States for what we have called ‘Ready for Operation Campaign’ that consists to achieve the qualification and to conduct joint and combined maritime operations by embarking F-35 ...

Foreign Navy Chiefs compliment Sri Lanka Navy on 70th anniversary Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) Several foreign Navy Chiefs and Defence Attachés at embassies in Colombo sent their compliments to Navy Commander Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne to mark the 70th anniversary of Sri Lanka Navy which was celebrated on December 9, 2020, the Navy Media Unit said. Accordingly, Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chief of ...