Shabby Legion
Italy is one of the largest in the EU and NATO in terms of population, size of the economy and, accordingly, military potential, however, it has not been spared by the general European trends of a significant reduction in the Armed Forces.
The country has a very powerful military-industrial complex, capable of producing military equipment of almost all classes. The level of training of the personnel of the Italian army is traditionally considered to be very low, but now it has fallen across Europe, therefore the “pasta” has ceased to stand out as the worst. Like most southern European countries, Italy does not recycle a significant part of the obsolete and decommissioned equipment, but leaves it in warehouses.
The ground forces in recent years have gone through many organizational transformations. At this point in them again restored division, of which there are three. The composition of the SV also includes three separate brigades and four commands.
The Division "Tridentina" (headquarters in Bolzano) is a mining unit, in its composition the Alpine brigade "Taurinens" (Turin) and "Julia" (Udine). Division "Friuli" (Florence) - "heavy." It has three brigades: the armored Ariete (Venice), the mechanized Sassari and Pozzuolo de Friuli (Bologna). The Acqui Division (San Giorgio, Naples), being "medium", includes the Garibaldi (Caserta), Pinerolo (Bari) and Aosta (Messina) brigades, the last two mechanized ones.
Separate brigades: Parachute "Folgore" (Livorno), communications and EW (both in Anzio), support (Solbiate-Olona).
The command of the MTR (Pisa) has 4 parachute and 3 helicopter regiments. Army Command aviation (Viterbo) consists of one brigade. The air defense command includes 3 regiments (4, 17, 121st), support command - 6 (MLRS, RKhBZ, self-propelled guns, two engineering and railway).
As an integral part of the ground forces can be considered carabineers. This is the 2 division, the 1 brigade and regional units. Subject to the command of the Armed Forces, they perform various police tasks throughout the country as a whole. The level of their combat training is higher than that of the Armed Forces. Carabinieri are armed with a number of armored personnel carriers, light aircraft and helicopters, which are taken into account in the total number of vehicles.
Tank The park consists of 197 C1 Ariete own production, created on the basis of the German Leopard-2. As a "wheeled tank" is often considered BMTV V-1 "Centauro" with a 105-mm gun. There are 300 such machines. Of the 317 BRMs, 14 are French VAB-RECO NBC, the rest are their own Cougars. All BMPs are ours: 172 Frechcha, 198 VCC-80 Dardo. BTR - about 2000: 148 Swedish Bv-206, up to 560 native VCC-1, up to 1190 VCC-2, 250 Pum, 57 Fiat-6614, 17 American amphibious AAV-7.
The artillery includes the 96 old American ACNs M109 and 70 the newest German PzH-2000, 72 English towed guns FH-70, up to 1000 mortars, 22 American MLRS. There are 173 of the latest Israeli Spike ATGMs, including 36 self-propelled on the Freccha BMP chassis, American Tou (702 self-propelled on the M270 BTR), 113 old French Milan.
Ground-based air defense has 10 batteries of the American XRUM XRUM XRUM, 60 XME battery of the newest SAMP / T French XRUM (6 PU), 36 SKYGARD-Aspid short-range SAM systems, 24 US Stinger XRUMX, 145 US X-NUMX short-range SAM systems, 96 US Stinger XNUMX batteries, XNUMX XNUMX American short-range air defense systems. their own SIRP SIDAM.
Army aviation has 7 light transport aircraft (3 Do-228, 4 P-180), 60 combat AW129 Mongoose and more XNXX multi-purpose or transport helicopters (300 AW21, 109 A37, up to 109-X-XXXXXXXXXX, 63 A412, up to 22-X-XXXXXXXXX, 47 AW1, 90 A61, 205, 84 AW206, 30 A212 XNUMX NHXNUMX, up to XNUMX AB-XNUMX, up to XNUMX AB-XNUMX, XNUMX AB-XNUMX). Almost all aircraft equipment of own production.
The Italian Air Force has six commands: combat, tactical, training, rear, two regional (north and south).
Italy became the first outside the United States, where licensed production of US F-35A fighters began. She currently has 7 such machines. In addition, armed with 75 modern European fighter "Typhoon", in the production of which Italy itself participates (62 IS, 13 training and combat IT), 72 German-British-Italian bomber "Tornado" IDS, 28 own MV339CD and 55 Italian-Brazilian AMX attack aircraft. The 4 obsolete basic Breguet-1150 Atlantic patrol aircraft can also be classified as combat.
The Air Force - 1 plane DER "Gulfstream-3», 4 tanker "Boeing-767» MRTT 1 and COP-130J, to transport 100 (19 C-130J, 13 C-27J, to P-3 166, 27 P- 180, 24 S-208, 3 A319CJ, 2 “Falcon-50”, 7 “Falcon-900”). There are 40 UBS MB-339A and purely training: 31 SF-260EA, 7 latest T-346, 9 German Grob-103. Helicopters: 85 NH-500, up to 7
Italy is one of two NATO countries (the other is the United Kingdom) that received combat UAVs from the USA - 5 RQ-1B and 1 MQ-1В “Predator”, 3 MQ-9 “Riper”.
On the Aivano Air Force, 50 nuclear B-61 for the USAF is stored, on the Gedi Tore Air Force - 20 similar bombs for the Italian Air Force.
The Navy is the strongest type of the country's Armed Forces, with all combat units built at their own shipyards.
There are 2 newest submarines Salvatore Todo (German project 212), 2 are still being built, 4 of Sauro type. The Navy has aircraft carriers Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi (“Who is against the Queen”). They are the only ones in their class from the West that carry, in addition to deck aircraft, not only short-range air defense weapons, but also strike weapons, including anti-ship missiles. In fact, they, like Russian ships, should be classified as aircraft carrying cruisers. "Cavour", in addition, can be used as UDC. The decommissioned cruiser-helicopter carrier "Vittorio Veneto" is in the sediment.
There are 4 modern destroyers - on the 2 "Andrea Doria" and "Luigi Durand de la Penne" ("Black Cross aboard the" Italian "), in the sediment - 2 old destroyers of the type" Audace ". Frigates: 4 of the newest "Bergamini" (Italian-French project FREMM, it is supposed to have 10 in total), 2 "Artiliere", 7 "Maestral".
In the Navy, as well as the coastal and financial guards, a significant number of corvettes, patrol and patrol ships: 4 of the Minerva type, 4 Cassiopeya, 4 Esploratore, 2 Sirio, 4 Comandante, 1 Zara, XNUM "Saettia" plus about 6 patrol boats. The 300 minesweeper "Lerici" and 2 "Gaeta", 8 DVKD "San Giorgio" are in the ranks.
Naval aviation is armed with X-NUMX AV-16B Harrier fighter jets with vertical takeoff for two aircraft carriers. Also in its composition 8 basic patrol aircraft P-3 and 180 ATR-7, 42 transport P-11, helicopters: 166 ASW (50 EN-5ASW, to 101 AB-36ASW), 212 AWACS (EN-4), 101 DER (AB-2ASW-EW), a multi-purpose vehicles and 212 (70 EH-10, 101 to SH-12D, 3 AB-18, 206 AB-21, 412 AW1, AW139 11, 109 A9).
The Marines consist of the San Marco Regiment. He is armed with 40 BCC VCC-2 and 18 AAV-7, 14 Mortar "Brandt", 6 ATGM "Milan" and 6 "Spike".
A group of US troops is deployed in Italy. It consists of the 173rd airborne brigade (Vicenza), the 31st fighter wing (Aviano, armed with 21 F-16), a squadron of 9 base patrol aircraft R-3C (Sigonella). In Gaet (near Naples) is the headquarters of the 6th operational fleet US Navy.
On the whole, the current capacity of the Italian Armed Forces is quite enough to solve the only task within NATO and the EU - limited participation in collective police operations on the territory of developing countries. For a serious operation, at least in its former colony of Libya, plunged into chaos with the active participation of Italy itself, its army is incapable of having to shed a lot of its own blood. For Europeans this is excluded today.
The country has a very powerful military-industrial complex, capable of producing military equipment of almost all classes. The level of training of the personnel of the Italian army is traditionally considered to be very low, but now it has fallen across Europe, therefore the “pasta” has ceased to stand out as the worst. Like most southern European countries, Italy does not recycle a significant part of the obsolete and decommissioned equipment, but leaves it in warehouses.
The ground forces in recent years have gone through many organizational transformations. At this point in them again restored division, of which there are three. The composition of the SV also includes three separate brigades and four commands.
The Division "Tridentina" (headquarters in Bolzano) is a mining unit, in its composition the Alpine brigade "Taurinens" (Turin) and "Julia" (Udine). Division "Friuli" (Florence) - "heavy." It has three brigades: the armored Ariete (Venice), the mechanized Sassari and Pozzuolo de Friuli (Bologna). The Acqui Division (San Giorgio, Naples), being "medium", includes the Garibaldi (Caserta), Pinerolo (Bari) and Aosta (Messina) brigades, the last two mechanized ones.
Separate brigades: Parachute "Folgore" (Livorno), communications and EW (both in Anzio), support (Solbiate-Olona).
The command of the MTR (Pisa) has 4 parachute and 3 helicopter regiments. Army Command aviation (Viterbo) consists of one brigade. The air defense command includes 3 regiments (4, 17, 121st), support command - 6 (MLRS, RKhBZ, self-propelled guns, two engineering and railway).
As an integral part of the ground forces can be considered carabineers. This is the 2 division, the 1 brigade and regional units. Subject to the command of the Armed Forces, they perform various police tasks throughout the country as a whole. The level of their combat training is higher than that of the Armed Forces. Carabinieri are armed with a number of armored personnel carriers, light aircraft and helicopters, which are taken into account in the total number of vehicles.
Tank The park consists of 197 C1 Ariete own production, created on the basis of the German Leopard-2. As a "wheeled tank" is often considered BMTV V-1 "Centauro" with a 105-mm gun. There are 300 such machines. Of the 317 BRMs, 14 are French VAB-RECO NBC, the rest are their own Cougars. All BMPs are ours: 172 Frechcha, 198 VCC-80 Dardo. BTR - about 2000: 148 Swedish Bv-206, up to 560 native VCC-1, up to 1190 VCC-2, 250 Pum, 57 Fiat-6614, 17 American amphibious AAV-7.
The artillery includes the 96 old American ACNs M109 and 70 the newest German PzH-2000, 72 English towed guns FH-70, up to 1000 mortars, 22 American MLRS. There are 173 of the latest Israeli Spike ATGMs, including 36 self-propelled on the Freccha BMP chassis, American Tou (702 self-propelled on the M270 BTR), 113 old French Milan.
Ground-based air defense has 10 batteries of the American XRUM XRUM XRUM, 60 XME battery of the newest SAMP / T French XRUM (6 PU), 36 SKYGARD-Aspid short-range SAM systems, 24 US Stinger XRUMX, 145 US X-NUMX short-range SAM systems, 96 US Stinger XNUMX batteries, XNUMX XNUMX American short-range air defense systems. their own SIRP SIDAM.
Army aviation has 7 light transport aircraft (3 Do-228, 4 P-180), 60 combat AW129 Mongoose and more XNXX multi-purpose or transport helicopters (300 AW21, 109 A37, up to 109-X-XXXXXXXXXX, 63 A412, up to 22-X-XXXXXXXXX, 47 AW1, 90 A61, 205, 84 AW206, 30 A212 XNUMX NHXNUMX, up to XNUMX AB-XNUMX, up to XNUMX AB-XNUMX, XNUMX AB-XNUMX). Almost all aircraft equipment of own production.
The Italian Air Force has six commands: combat, tactical, training, rear, two regional (north and south).Italy became the first outside the United States, where licensed production of US F-35A fighters began. She currently has 7 such machines. In addition, armed with 75 modern European fighter "Typhoon", in the production of which Italy itself participates (62 IS, 13 training and combat IT), 72 German-British-Italian bomber "Tornado" IDS, 28 own MV339CD and 55 Italian-Brazilian AMX attack aircraft. The 4 obsolete basic Breguet-1150 Atlantic patrol aircraft can also be classified as combat.
The Air Force - 1 plane DER "Gulfstream-3», 4 tanker "Boeing-767» MRTT 1 and COP-130J, to transport 100 (19 C-130J, 13 C-27J, to P-3 166, 27 P- 180, 24 S-208, 3 A319CJ, 2 “Falcon-50”, 7 “Falcon-900”). There are 40 UBS MB-339A and purely training: 31 SF-260EA, 7 latest T-346, 9 German Grob-103. Helicopters: 85 NH-500, up to 7
Italy is one of two NATO countries (the other is the United Kingdom) that received combat UAVs from the USA - 5 RQ-1B and 1 MQ-1В “Predator”, 3 MQ-9 “Riper”.
On the Aivano Air Force, 50 nuclear B-61 for the USAF is stored, on the Gedi Tore Air Force - 20 similar bombs for the Italian Air Force.
The Navy is the strongest type of the country's Armed Forces, with all combat units built at their own shipyards.
There are 2 newest submarines Salvatore Todo (German project 212), 2 are still being built, 4 of Sauro type. The Navy has aircraft carriers Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi (“Who is against the Queen”). They are the only ones in their class from the West that carry, in addition to deck aircraft, not only short-range air defense weapons, but also strike weapons, including anti-ship missiles. In fact, they, like Russian ships, should be classified as aircraft carrying cruisers. "Cavour", in addition, can be used as UDC. The decommissioned cruiser-helicopter carrier "Vittorio Veneto" is in the sediment.
There are 4 modern destroyers - on the 2 "Andrea Doria" and "Luigi Durand de la Penne" ("Black Cross aboard the" Italian "), in the sediment - 2 old destroyers of the type" Audace ". Frigates: 4 of the newest "Bergamini" (Italian-French project FREMM, it is supposed to have 10 in total), 2 "Artiliere", 7 "Maestral".
In the Navy, as well as the coastal and financial guards, a significant number of corvettes, patrol and patrol ships: 4 of the Minerva type, 4 Cassiopeya, 4 Esploratore, 2 Sirio, 4 Comandante, 1 Zara, XNUM "Saettia" plus about 6 patrol boats. The 300 minesweeper "Lerici" and 2 "Gaeta", 8 DVKD "San Giorgio" are in the ranks.
Naval aviation is armed with X-NUMX AV-16B Harrier fighter jets with vertical takeoff for two aircraft carriers. Also in its composition 8 basic patrol aircraft P-3 and 180 ATR-7, 42 transport P-11, helicopters: 166 ASW (50 EN-5ASW, to 101 AB-36ASW), 212 AWACS (EN-4), 101 DER (AB-2ASW-EW), a multi-purpose vehicles and 212 (70 EH-10, 101 to SH-12D, 3 AB-18, 206 AB-21, 412 AW1, AW139 11, 109 A9).
The Marines consist of the San Marco Regiment. He is armed with 40 BCC VCC-2 and 18 AAV-7, 14 Mortar "Brandt", 6 ATGM "Milan" and 6 "Spike".
A group of US troops is deployed in Italy. It consists of the 173rd airborne brigade (Vicenza), the 31st fighter wing (Aviano, armed with 21 F-16), a squadron of 9 base patrol aircraft R-3C (Sigonella). In Gaet (near Naples) is the headquarters of the 6th operational fleet US Navy.
On the whole, the current capacity of the Italian Armed Forces is quite enough to solve the only task within NATO and the EU - limited participation in collective police operations on the territory of developing countries. For a serious operation, at least in its former colony of Libya, plunged into chaos with the active participation of Italy itself, its army is incapable of having to shed a lot of its own blood. For Europeans this is excluded today.
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