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This is a list of active Italian Navy ships. The navy maintains approximately 181 ships in service, [ 1 ] including minor auxiliary vessels. The fleet has started a process of renewal that will see 50 ships retired by 2025 and replaced by 30 multi-mission ships. [ 2 ]
Today's Italian Navy is a modern navy with ships of every type. The fleet is in continuous evolution, and as of today oceangoing fleet units include: 2 light aircraft carriers , 3 amphibious assault ships , 4 destroyers , 11 frigates and 8 attack submarines .
Vulcano (A 5335) [1] (Italian: Nave Vulcano (m)) [2] is a warship of the Italian Navy, a Vulcano-class logistic support ship, the lead ship in its class. [3] It was built as part of a joint project between Italy and France to build such ships. [4] It is a replenishment oiler auxiliary ship. [5] [6] Vulcano has the pennant number A 5335. [1]
The frigate was commissioned into the Italian Navy on 19 December 2013 and is based at La Spezia as part of 2° Comando Gruppo Navale. [2] Virginio Fasan was deployed as part of EUNAVFOR's counter-piracy Operation Atalanta in 2017. On 18 November, the ship responded to a series of attacks on a container ship and a fishing vessel.
But due to the policy of restraint adopted by the Italian Navy, Dante Alighieri and the other battleships of the Italian fleet saw no action. [4] Financial limitations in the post-war period forced the navy to scrap the ship to reduce the naval budget. [13] The ship was accordingly stricken on 1 July 1928 and sold for scrap. [12]
In more recent designs the ships are shown as 16,500-ton 160-metre (520 ft) landing platform docks with two helicopter landing spots on the aft deck. [3] [1] The first two ships are expected to enter service from 2028 to 2030. If the option is taken, the third ship will enter service after 2031. [4]
The ship was named in honor of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (after proposals such as Luigi Einaudi and Andrea Doria were discarded) and became the NUM (New Major Unit) of the Italian Navy, joining the aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi. Its name holds historical significance for the Italian Navy, as a tribute to the strong impetus that Count ...
The lead ship of the French Navy's Jacques Chevallier sub-class began sea trials in December 2022 [17] and was commissioned in November 2024. [18] Steel was cut on a second ship for the French Navy in February 2022 [19] and on a second ship for the Italian Navy in July 2022. [20] The ships have the capability to: refuel ships; produce fresh ...