ACMI : Air Combat Manouvering Installation

Air Combat Manouvering Installation is the state of art about air combat training and it is extremely safely. A.C.M.I. is an electronic system which offers all the real advantages involving the pilot and beyond that all the psychological attitude for population and territory under military restrictions: it does not use any kind of weapons.

A.C.M.I. is made up by some electronic sites on the ground or sea with receiver antennas powered by photovoltaic elements or power generators which get radio and telemetric data from the aircrafts that carry very special instruments outside the cockpit. The aircarfts can simulate every air combat special phases.

The aircrafts pull up, pitch, and they shoot "electronic" bullets: that is, they "shoot a burst of electromagnetic waves" that are received by sea-sites and sent by radio relay stations to the Operation Center in Decimomannu Airbase. Lot of computers will work out data so that the ground-instructors are able to follow the different pilot training phases and so get very good results in terms of economy, training level, and safety for pilots and related habitat.

So bullets are no more in use; missiles are no more shooted. Pilot, aircraft, area of operation become immune from dangers related to the use of explosives and fire-arms. Real-time training, is more "realistic": aircrafts can be visualized into the monitors from different point of sight and also from the cockpit. So instructors can give more control and more safety.

Least but not the last, Capo Frasca A/G Range, is the final target of every activity performed in Deci Air Base. Upon the Range two different kind af activity could be performed: day-time activity and night-time activity. Italian and G.A.F. personnel take over all the operational activities upon the Range that is under responsibility of an Italian Officer. From 1982, a Radar Site is also located inside the Range. This site gives aids all the aircraft involved in A.C.M.I. activities, Air to Air Range and also has the target of National Air Defense.

From: Aeronautica Militare Italiana