On 1 March 2002, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Group was established within the 32nd Wing, with Predator-A UAVs. On 1 February 2005 the Group was renamed as 28th Group "Le Streghe", after the 3rd Wing in Villafranca was disestablished. The 28th Group has participated to all major missions abroad since 2005: Operation Antica Babilonia in Iraq, Unified Protector in Libya and NATO Joint Enterprise in Kosovo. In 2009 the 32nd Wing provided air security to the 2009 35th G8 summit held in L'Aquila and to the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. In Afghanistan the 32nd Wing sent two task-groups: in 2007 with Predator UAVs (Task Group ""Astore") and in 2009 with AMXs (Task Group "Black Cats"").