* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

* Italian aircraft carrier Aquila, a World War II Italian aircraft carrier

The Italian Air Force was expected to procure up to 250 missiles for its Tornado ECR aircraft.

The upgrade is being carried out by Embraer and Elbit ; it includes a new avionics suite, a full glass cockpit with three MFDs, HOTAS configuration and a new multimode radar, the Italian Grifo F. The first F-5EM was handed over on September 21, 2005, and it is scheduled at a rate of two aircraft being delivered each month from that date onwards.

* Corvus Fusion, an Italian aircraft

This was just the opportunity the German Luftwaffe, Italian Regia Aeronautica, and the Soviet Union's Red Air Force needed to test their latest aircraft.

Italian exports cover one third of total EU arms exports towards Libya, and include mainly military aircraft but also missiles and electronic equipments.

* 1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.

Upon hearing of Hitler's intentions, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, through his Foreign Minister Count Ciano, quickly offered up to ten divisions and thirty squadrons of Italian aircraft for the proposed invasion.

* 1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.

* OMA SUD Skycar an Italian four-seat piston engined aircraft

* October 27 – Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist ( b. 1886 )

* Luigi Stipa, Italian aeronautical, hydraulic, and civil engineer and aircraft designer ( d. 1992 )

* Luigi Stipa, Italian aeronautical, hydraulic, and civil engineer and aircraft designer ( b. 1900 )

* August 28 – Seventy-five people are killed and 346 injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

** WWII: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval base.

** Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist ( d. 1957 )

The navy did not have any aircraft carriers to provide air cover for amphibious assaults in the Mediterranean, as the Fascist regime believed that the air bases on the Italian Peninsula would be able to do this task.

Alenia Aermacchi is an Italian aircraft manufacturer.

A Mid-Life Updating program is required by the Italian Air Force to upgrade the aircraft capabilities.

Men drawn from the Italian parachute forces were dropped in a special forces operation in North Africa in 1943 in an attempt to destroy parked aircraft of the USAAF.

As the class grew to be more of a social elite instead of a functional property-based military grouping, the Romans began to employ Italian socii for filling the ranks of their cavalry.

He is the first Italian known to employ the oboe as a solo instrument in concerti ( c. 1715, in his masterful 12 concerti a cinque, op.

Like the English playoffs, the Italian playoffs employ two-legged semi-finals, with the higher finisher in the league table earning home advantage in the second leg.

Numerous Italians in the employ of Spain and France, whose territorial claims in America were based on the voyages of Italian navigators, were involved in exploring and mapping these territories, and in establishing settlements.

Life Is Beautiful () is a 1997 Italian film which tells the tragic-comic story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice ( played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film ), who courts and marries a woman and later must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

The RAF Tornados rely on the aforementioned ALARM missile and the Italian / German Tornado ECRs employ the AGM-88 HARM missile.

Popemobile ( Italian: Papamobile ) is an informal name for the specially designed motor vehicles used by the pope during outdoor public appearances without having to employ the antiquated and often impractical sedia gestatoria.

According to Roth, although Abravenel had ample time to embrace and employ Italian, “ the Dialogue read a little stiffly, there is good reason to doubt whether represents the original text ” ( xii ).

It was the first battle of the war against Romans on Italian soil and the first battle of the war to employ legion-sized forces.

Mario, an Italian, suggests they employ the services of his compatriot César, a safecracker.

His chansons tend to be homophonic, with occasional contrapuntal detail, but the later ones employ many of the rhythmic devices common in Italian secular music of the period, particularly the frottola, and also are filled with madrigalisms such as word-painting.

The earliest paintings to employ the scene were Italian frescos of the 10th century.

Costa Coffee have their own roastery and employ the only three Italian Master Roasters in the UK.

The film, now lost, showed stylistic influences from the Italian neo-realists and was the first Korean film to employ synchronous sound.

Another group of cloistered " Nuns of St Ambrose ", also called the Annunciatae ( Italian: Annunziate ) of Lombardy or " Sisters of St Marcellina ", were founded in 1408 by three young women of Pavia, Dorothea Morosini, Eleonora Contarini, and Veronica Duodi.

During the next three years Salieri was primarily concerned with rehearsing and conducting the Italian opera company in Vienna and teaching.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

Along with Lazio and Juventus, Roma is one of only three Italian clubs quotated in Borsa Italiana ( Italian stock exchange ).

Vicious air bombings were targeted on Alicante during the three years of civil conflict, most notably the bombing by the Italian Aviazione Legionaria of the Mercado de Abastos in 25 May 1938 in which more than 300 civilians perished.

The remaining three brigades were Italian units under Brigadiers Dabormida, Ellena and Arimondi.

On the night of 29 February and the early morning of 1 March three Italian brigades advanced separately towards Adwa over narrow mountain tracks, while a fourth remained camped.

However, the three leading Italian brigades had become separated during their overnight march and at dawn were spread across several miles of very difficult terrain.

Arimondi's brigade beat back the Ethiopians who repeatedly charged the Italian position for three hours with gradually fading strength until Menelik released his reserve of 25, 000 Shewans and swamped the Italian defenders.

* The main source for Columbanus's life is recorded by Jonas of Bobbio, an Italian monk who entered the monastery in Bobbio in 618, three years after the saint's death ; Jonas wrote the life c. 643.

It consisted of three Italian MEPs ( Lega Nord two, Sardinian Action Party one ), two Spanish MEPs ( one each for the PNV and the Andalusian Party, PA ), one Belgian MEP ( for VU ), one French MEP ( Union of the Corsican People, UPC ), one British MEP ( SNP ) and one Irish MEP ( Neil Blaney, independent ).

The three remaining EFA member parties in Parliament ( SNP, VU and Canarian Coalition ) formed a common group with the French Energie Radicale list and the Italian Pannella List.

For example the Italian flag code expressly replaces the Italian flag for the European flag in precedence when dignitaries from other EU countries visit – for example the EU flag would be in the middle of a group of three flags rather than the Italian flag.

The Italian film industry took shape between 1903 and 1908, led by three major organizations-Cines, based in Rome ; and the Turin-based companies ' Ambrosio ' and ' Itala Film '.

In three day's fighting, the Allies captured more than 2, 000 Axis prisoners of war, mostly from the Italian Brescia ' and Pavia ' Divisions ; the New Zealand division suffered 1, 405 casualties.

Within fifteen years, Handel, a dramatic genius, started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera, but the public came to hear the vocal bravura of the soloists rather than the music.

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

* Hydrofoils are regularly operated on the three major Italian Lakes by branches of Ministry Of Transportation: Navigazione Lago Maggiore services routes on the Lake Maggiore between Locarno and Arona, Navigazione Lago di Como services routes on the Lake Como and Navigazione Lago di Garda services routes on the Lake Garda.

The occupied country was divided in three zones ( German, Italian and Bulgarian ) and in Athens, a puppet regime was established.