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13-06-2013

The Task Group "Black Cats" captures valuable photographic information

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The AMX Task Group "Black Cats" in over 6000 hours of flying night and day were able to photograph the area of influence to the east of Herat all routes, and paths of Insurgents allowing it to complete the mapping of corridors used by law hostile.

The collected data were processed by analysts image office AZ - ISR which subsequently produced a useful strategic plan on the surveillance and reconnaissance of the dial concerned.

In the months before the Italian AMX destroyed a tower with antennas for telecommunication Taliban positioned behind Fob - Lavaredo in Bakwa.

The antennas were powered with solar panels made in China and have been identified by analysts of images of the group, the operation was successful thanks to precision armament supplied to the media.

The Task Group "Black Cats" is part of the Joint Air Task Force (JATF) Air Force and supports the operations of the R - C West, has been operating on the basis of Herat airport and is equipped with AMX fighter bombers and Predator, or vehicles remote control for military and civil protection services (voluntarily omit the number of units for security reasons).

AMX

 

AMX technical data:

 

Wingspan 9,97 m (32ft 71in) - length 13,23 m (43ft 41in) - height 4,55 m (19ft 93in) - maximum mass (take-off) 13.000 kg (28,660 lb) - powerplants: 1 Rolls-Royce Avio RB.168-807 Spey turbofan of 5.000 kg (11,023 lb)/s - maximum speed 940 km (584 miles)/h (Mach 0.86) - service ceiling 13.000 m (42,650ft) - operational range of transfer 3.600 km (2,236 miles) - crew: 1 pilot/1-2 pilots* - armament: 1 cannon cal. 20 mm, up to 3.800 kg (8,377 lb) of external loads (external fuel tanks, reconnaissance pod, air-to-air missiles AIM-9L Sidewinder). *AMX-T

 

 

Predator

Uav general atomics rq 1b predator technical data:

 

Wingspan 14,8 m (48ft 56in)  - length 8,2 m (26ft 9in) - height 1,82 m (5ft 97in) – cruise speed 135-160 km (83-99 miles)/h – service ceiling 7.800 m (25,590ft) – operational range 24 hours on station at 296 km (183 miles) from its base - maximum mass (take-off) 952 kg (2,098 lb) -  powerplants: 1 four-cylinder engine Rotax 912 – useful load 240 kg (529 lb) (optical-electronic sensors, synthetic aperture radar). 

 

 

 

 

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Sergio Giangregorio

Degree in Political Sciences and International Relations. Specialized in "Speculative models and educational researches in multimedia interaction of I°and II° level", adjunct university professor in investigative subjects with specific expertise on security in urban areas, on intelligence methods and peacekeeping. Communications expert in extreme situations.

Investigative journalist and intelligence analyst, he developed many strategic studies of all theather of war as the balcanic conflict, the Afghanistan's war and conflicts in Iraq and North Africa.

President of the European Center of Orientation and Studies (CEOS).

Director of the monthly magazine on line "Convincere".

 

Website: www.sergiogiangregorio.it

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