C-27J/G.222 SPARTAN Bandai which was later accepted by

which was later accepted by the Czechoslovak army and used under designation 3

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3 ft) mounted on the wing's leading edge directly forward of the landing gear

These assumptions proved correct during the war for the islands of the Falkland archipelago in 1982

One man holds a rail spike while kneeling on the ground

C-27J/G.222 SPARTAN Bandai which was later accepted byThe Aeritalia G 222 twin engine transport aircraft was designed in the late 1960s by the famous ing. Giuseppe Gabrielli, fighter designer such as G. 55 and G. 91 and was born for a specific need of the Italian Air Force: to have a tactical transport aircraft, smaller than the four engine Lockheed C 130 Hercules, able to take off and landing from very short and unprepared runways. The two turboprop engines are able to make the G 222 reach 480 km h and