High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Reggiane Re.2002 Ariete was an Italian fighter-bomber developed during World War II. The aircraft was a further development of the Re.2000, with some of the modifications that already had been introduced in the Re.2001. The aircraft was mainly used by the Regia Aeronautica (Royal Air Force), but it also saw limited use with the German Luftwaffe, who used it against the French resistance.