National Defence committee  Actually, I think we will have better service, because basically, as I told you, in terms of speed, we have the same speed as the C-130, and we are faster than the Buffalo, but we have the same capability at low speed. So basically the overall fleet will have a faster response because we'll have faster airplanes.

National Defence committee  The Italian air force and the Greeks also use the aircraft for search and rescue. In fact, the Italian air force has two observer seats with large windows in the back of the airplanes, so they can look outside. And one of the features we have on our airplane is that you can choose your search pattern, so you can input the data of your search pattern and--

National Defence committee  That's basically the good of our airplanes, that it is a multi-role aircraft that is used also on search and rescue missions. Italy has 12 and Greece has another 12.

National Defence committee  It's multi-role. They're used as a multi-role, so it has a second role.

National Defence committee  Of course the requirements are in the hands of the government. The government debates on the needs and decides which way they want to go. We cannot comment on the requirements because they are coming from the government based on the needs. What we can say for sure is that we have a good solution, as we explained at the beginning.

National Defence committee  One of the key points of our airplane is that basically it flies at the same speed as the C-130 that is currently performing the search and rescue in the western area, where you need speed and range. Then, on the west coast, as you say, you need a very manoeuvrable aircraft. Our aircraft has great performance at low speed, as we said earlier.

National Defence committee  Basically those limits are related to the propeller limits. We have the same propulsion system as the C-130J, specifically the same propeller, so we have basically the same capability in terms of wind speed as the C-130J that you recently procured. I didn't mention it before, but our aircraft is fully civil-certified and fully military-certified in extreme conditions, and especially for ice.

National Defence committee  Yes, it's particularly for Libya, Nigeria, Turkey, for the Italian navy—

National Defence committee  Alenia has vast experience modifying aircraft in order to install search and rescue maritime patrol sensors and anti-submarine warfare equipment. We have also developed, with another product, which is the ATR, a series of different configurations with the latest technology for search and rescue.