Today the Aeronautica Militare has a strength of 45, 879 and operates 585 aircraft, including 219 combat jets and 114 helicopters.

In 1946, the monarchy was abolished and the Kingdom of Italy became the Italian Republic, whereupon the name of the air force changed to Aeronautica Militare Italiana.

The Regia Aeronautica was succeeded by Aeronautica Militare when Italy became a republic on 2 June 1946.

* Aeronautica Militare, after World War II

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It is intended to equip the Eurofighter Typhoons of the United Kingdom Royal Air Force ( RAF ), Germany's Luftwaffe, Spain's Ejército del Aire and Italy's Aeronautica Militare Italiana, British and Italian F-35s, French Dassault Rafale, and the Saab JAS 39 Gripen of Sweden's Flygvapnet.

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The Frecce Tricolori ( Italian, literally Tricolour Arrows ), officially known as the 313 ° Gruppo Addestramento Acrobatico, is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Aeronautica Militare, based at Rivolto Air Force Base, in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, province of Udine.

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The ACI formed the basis of the post-war Air Force of the Italian Republic ( Aeronautica Militare Italiana ).

* Aeronautica Militare ( Post-war Italian Air Force 1945-present )

A small number of SM. 79s remained in service in the post-war Aeronautica Militare, where they served as passenger transports into the early 1950s.

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One of the ex-Lebanese aircraft is now on display at the Museo Storico dell ' Aeronautica Militare Italiana at Vigna di Valle, north of Rome.

The Italian Royal Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica Italiana ) was the name of the air force of the Kingdom of Italy.

In August 1941 the Regia Aeronautica sent an Air Corps of 1, 900 personnel to the Eastern Front as an attachment to the " Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia " ( Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia, or CSIR ) and then the " Italian Army in Russia " ( Armata Italiana in Russia, or ARMIR ) were known as the " Italian Air Force Expeditionary Corps in Russia " ( Corpo Aereo Spedizione in Russia ).

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He went through a crash course of flying instruction and set up to build the Italian Royal Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica Italiana ).

When the forces of Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, aircraft of the Royal Italian Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica Italiana ) scattered fliers asking the population to rebel against Haile Selassie and support the " true Emperor Iyasu V ." It was feared that the Italians would make use of Iyasu to fragment Ethiopian resistance to their conquest.

The Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force ( Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana, or ACI ), or Air Force of the South ( Aeronautica del Sud ), was the air force of the Royalist " Badoglio government " in southern Italy during the last years of World War II.

This was known as the National Republican Air Force ( Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, or ANR ), ostensibly part of the forces of the Benito Mussolini's Fascist state in northern Italy, the Italian Social Republic ( Repubblica Sociale Italiana ).

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* The Società Aeronautica Italiana is founded by Angelo Ambrosini at Passignano sul Trasimeno, Italy.

Ansaldo & C. shipbuilding company and combines it with its own Società Italiana Aviazione subsidiary to form a new Società Anonima Aeronautica d ' Italia subsidiary for the design and production of aircraft.

* Società Aeronautica Italiana, an Italian aircraft manufacturer

The Aeronautica Militare Italiana ( Italian air force ) prepared their aircraft to be launched at a moment's notice in case of a terrorist strike.

After the armistice, Visconti continued to fly with the newly formed National Republican Air Force ( Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, or ANR ) of the Italian Social Republic ( Repubblica Sociale Italiana, or RSI ).

In European NATO air forces, the SEAD mission falls mostly to Royal Air Force Tornado GR. 4s, Luftwaffe Tornado Electronic Combat and Reconnaissance variant ( ECR ), and Aeronautica Militare ( AMI ) Tornado ECRs.

In Iraq, the Regia Aeronautica was only operational for four days ( 28 – 31 May 1941 ), with their aircraft painted in Iraqi colours.

* Regia Aeronautica ( Royal Air Force ), from 1923 to June 1946

Among the men who became famous through serving in the Regia Aeronautica, the Sparviero crews became even more renowned than fighter aces because of the initial records set, the successful raids in Spain, especially those made by the " Green Mice " ( I sorci verdi ), and the torpedo missions carried out during the war which became the subject of fascist propaganda.

The Regia Aeronautica ( Italian Air Force ) would contribute approximately 180-220 transport aircraft, mostly three-engined SM. 75s ( carrying 24-28 men each ), SM. 81s ( carrying 12-14 men each ) and SM. 82s ( carrying 30-34 men each ). Ref

* February 16 – 19 – On February 16, Marshal Pietro Badoglio orders Italian ground forces not to pursue Ethiopian forces after they begin to retreat from Amba Aradam and assigns the task of exploitation of Italys victory to the Italian Royal Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica ), a novel task for an air force.

Its origins are in the A. D. R. A Arditi Distruttori Regia Aeronautica ( Kingdom Air Force Brave Destroyers ), a corp of WW2.

This story can be verified by reading the article " L ' UOMO CHE ABBATTE ' VISCONTI " ( THE MAN WHO SHOT DOWN VISCONTI ), in the 3rd of March 1989 issue of the Italian magazine " Aeronautica ", article using the notes taken at the time by Eddy in his notebook, which allowed to retrace the combat and to understand that it was him the " adversary " of Visconti ( a fact completely unknown to Eddy himself till then ...).