After a decade of deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq, the wings are literally falling off the USAF’s aging fleet of AC-130s. The Air Force thought about upgrading them to the new MC-27J Spartan ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As the Gulf nations struggle to adjust to an evolving battlefield, Italian defense contractor Alenia Aermacchi is pitching its new MC-27J multi-mission airlifter and ...

One of the most interesting thing I’ve found here at Farnborough Air Show 2012, is the first glimpse to a Special Operations version of the C-27J. Officially designated MC-27J, the main feature of the ...

ATK and Alenia Aermacchi have successfully completed the first phase of ground and flight testing for the palletised gun system on the MC-27J gunship variant of the tactical transport with the support ...

The MC-27J Praetorian concept retains the capability of the regular C-27J but can be rapidly converted for special missions. Alenia Aermacchi's MC-27J multi-mission tactical transport recently made ...

Alenia Aermacchi, and ATK announced today that the demonstrator of a fully configured MC-27J multi-mission tactical transport aircraft completed its first flight from the company's Turin test flight ...

TURIN, Italy, April 28 (UPI) -- A fully configured multi-mission tactical transport/gunship by Alenia Aermacchi has completed its first flight test in Italy, the company announced. The MC-27J ...

An Alenia/ATK team will modify six Italian air force transports into MC-27J Pretorian gunships and command and control aircraft, opening the export market for large armed cargo aircraft for the first ...

The Italian air force (AMI) is planning to send an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance-capable Alenia C-27J Spartan tactical airlifter to Afghanistan to support the final months of Italian ...

In a media briefing held inside the fuselage of the C-27J CSX62127, Finmeccanica group’s company Alenia Aermacchi has unveiled a few more details about the new gunship version of the Spartan launched ...

The Italian Air Force will operate the MC-27J Praetorian configuration by 2030. The photo shows an MC-27J Praetorian with winglets. (Leonardo SpA) The Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare Italiana: ...

The Italian Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to fund new multi-year programmes for the development of three Leonardo MC-27J Praetorian special operations aircraft and the acquisition of two new Boeing ...