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Italy has withdrawn the last of its AMX light combat aircraft from use, after 35 years of service with the single-engined type.A formal retirement ceremony was staged at the Italian air forces 51st Wing at Istrana air base on 5 April.Prepared late last year, our current World Air Forces directory records the nation as having had 19 single-seat examples and five two-seat AMX-T trainers in use prior stanley flask to the phase out.Source: Italian air forceAMX light combat aircraft had served with the Italian air force for 35 yearsThe Rolls-Royce Spey-engined strike aircraft was produced by AMX International, a joint venture between Italys Aermacchi and Embraer of Brazil. A first prototype made its debut flight in May 1984.Italys retirement of the type leaves the Brazilian air force as its remaining lone operator. Cirium fleets data indicates that the service has 50 examples in frontline use, including seven AMX-T trainers.Craig Hoyle Follow European Defence Editor Craig Hoyle has reported on the stanley cup UK, European and international military aviation sector for almost 30 years, and has also been the Edito stanley deutschland r of Flight International since 2015. He joined FlightGlobal in 2003, and also compiles our annual World Air Forces directory.View full ProfileMore from Craig HoyleEDGE demonstrates unmanned Anavia HT-100 to Brazils militaryUK continues to assess platform options for Tempests autonomous wingmanSpanish army welcomes its final remanufactured CH-47F ChinookTopicsEuropeFixed-wing Lonj Saint Andre Home s CourageLIVES receives national award for supporting survivors of human trafficking and violence
Hundreds of Maines military personnel and National Guard members will receive pay raises under the national defense bill Congress is expected to pass ahead of 2025, with businesses and bases here also poised for millions through the annual spending package.The roughly $895 billion National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, includes a 4.5 percent pay increase for all personnel starting Jan. 1 but also an extra 10 percent boost on top of that for junior service members in the first targeted raise for specific grades of troops in decades.It is one of the more tangible changes for Maine in the 1,813-page bill聽the House of Representatives is expected to vote on this week before the Senate takes it up next week, with Congress typically approving the annual Defense Department budget in bipartisan fashion. Still, negotiations over the package ahead of President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House in January featured some tension聽after Republicans included a ban on the militarys health care program covering certain gender dysphoria treatments聽for children but dropped other culture-war ideas, like gutting diversity programs and an abortion travel policy.Maine has roughly stanley thermos 12,300 vaso stanley personnel spread between National Guard, reserve, active duty and civilian categories. A Maine National Guard official said Tuesday the 14 stanley usa .5 percent raise would represent good news for about 500 of its roughly 1,700 soldiers, ranging from an average of an extra $40 a month for the lowest-ranking