Lieutenant Colonel
Francesco
Esposito
Joint Air Power Competence Centre (2018-2022)
Lieutenant Colonel Francesco Esposito joined the Italian Air Force in 1990, joining the Italian Air Force Academy in Pozzuoli (Italy). He was trained with the US Air Force SUNT program in Randolph AFB (TX) and subsequently graduated as a Tornado Navigator/Weapon System Operator in Cottesmore (UK) in 1996. As an aircrew with 156° Tornado Sqn, and as an instructor with 102º Tornado OCU Sqn he participated in the flying Operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Between 2008 and 2012, he served as ATO Coordinator and Chief Strike cell in the Combined Air Operation Centre in Uedem (Germany) contributing, as an ATO Coordinator, to the Operation Unified Protector in Libya. Currently, he serves as JAPCC Precision-Guided Munition Expert.
Information provided is current as of August 2021
From the Author
Good News or Bad News?
Embryonic Development of Network Enabled Weapons
By Lt Col
Francesco
Esposito
By Mr
Adam
Jux
In the past few decades, the way we have understood conflict and war has seen a tremendous change. War had traditionally been understood as armed physical violence. Today, global security challenges are changing faster than [...]
Hypersonic Weapons
The Defining Challenge of Our Time
By Lt Col
Francesco
Esposito
For most people, hypersonic weapons and aircraft represent yet another 21 However, hypersonic studies have an extended history stretching back over half a century. In October 1967, William J. Knight, an aeronautical engineer, piloted the [...]
Precision-Guided Munitions of the Future
And the Related Challenges to NATO
By Lt Col
Francesco
Esposito
‘War has always been a chameleon, it is ever-changing, adapting to new circumstances and camouflaging itself …’ Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) There has been a remarkable acceleration with the use of guided weapons since Operation [...]
