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Italian Eurofighter Re-Fuels With KC-130J

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Thursday, November 13th, 2008

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By B.C. Kessner ROME--Finmeccanica's Alenia Aeronautica Tuesday said fight-refueling tests of a double-seat Eurofighter with an Italian air force KC-130J Hercules tanker were successfully completed near southern Sardinia's Decimomannu Air Base. "The tests last week were another important step toward achieving interoperability will all possible assets, not just here but around Europe," Valerio Bonelli, Alenia Aeronautica's head of media communications, told Defense Daily yesterday. Italy started an air force program about two years ago to configure eight C-130Js as tankers…

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