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Israeli Air Force selects the Italian M-346 trainer aircraft to train its pilots 1802121.
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Israeli
Air Force selects the Italian M-346 trainer aircraft to train its pilots.
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The Italian M-346 trainer aircraft of Alenia Aermacchi (a Finmeccanica company) has been selected by Israel’s Ministry of Defence to train its Air Force pilots. |
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Italian Alenia Aermacchi M-346 trainer aircraft (Credit Photo Alenia Aermacchi) |
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Giuseppe Giordo, Alenia Aermacchi’s Chief Executive
Officer and Responsible for Finmeccanica’s Aeronautics Sector,
has commented: “We would like to thank the Israeli Ministry of
Defence for their trust in and their choice of the M-346, a fact that
confirms the product excellence, result of the skill and expertise of
Alenia Aermacchi’s human resources”. The aircraft has just
been delivered to the Italian Air Force and, in the short term, will
also be in service with Singapore’s Air Force. The M-346s, which will make the Israeli Air Force’ new trainers fleet, and will replace the TA-4 Sky-Hawks, currently operated by IAF (Israel Air Force), will be a total of about 30 aircraft. The official contract award is scheduled for the middle of 2012 and the airplanes will be delivered to the customer starting in the middle of 2014. |
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