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Italian Air Force Patches Aeronautica Militare AM
Italian Royal Army Air Service founded in 1884 1911 Servizio Aeronautico undertook reconnaissance and bombing in the Italo-Turkish War the first use of powered aircraft in armed conflict. Italian Royal Air Force Regia Aeronautica Activated 28 March 1923 Combat in Etheopia 1935 Spanish Civil War 1936 - 39 and Joined Germany for WWII Mediterranean North Africa Balkans Greece Russia Armistice 8 September 1943 split Regia Aeronautica with Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force aligned with the Allies and the pro-Axis Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana until 8 May 1945. With the establishment of the Italian Republic on 18 June 1946 Regia Aeronautic became Aeronautica Militare The restrictions of the 1947 Peace Treaty of Paris 1947 were removed with the formation of NATO in 1949 The Air Force upgraded to mainly US aircraft and Italian types continued expansion F 104 Supersonic Fighter Tornado F 16 Fighting Falcon Typhoon F 35 Lightning II NATO operations in Somalia Mozambique and Balkans
Italian Naval Aviation Patches Aviazione Navale