In the autumn of 1957 the 14 countries that then formed the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) conducted a series of competitive trials among a number of western European aircraft manufacturers to select a lightweight ground attack fighter plane. After extensive testing, the aircraft selected as NATO's standard strike fighter was the G.91 produced by Aeritalia, the Italian airframe manufacturers established by the giant automotive firm of Fiat.

The G.91, which resembled a scaled-down versions of America's North American F-86 Sabrejet, was a superb aircraft and well suited to its mission of hitting fast and hard at potential enemy ground targets. Its sophisticated array of armament included either four .50-caliber machine guns or two 30-millimeter cannons mounted in the sides of its fuselage, two 500-pound conventional bombs, air-to-air guided missiles and up to 31 air-to-ground rockets. It also had the capability of carrying nuclear weapons, but their type, size and number have remained classified information.

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