Last ammaina flag of Euro Ship and Air Ship

(To Marina Militare)
04/10/19

Taranto Arsenal, work dock, 2 October 2019 at 18.30 pm: twenty-one cannon salvos mark the last moments of the operational life of two units of the Navy, the Maestrale class frigate, Euro, and the Soldier-class offshore patrol boat, Aviere retire after 35 and 36 years of activity in the service of institutions and the community respectively.

The formal act, the last drop the flag, chaired by the Chief of Staff of the Navy, team admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone and by the commander in chief of the naval team, team admiral Donato Marzano, who received the combat flags from the commander , Lieutenant Captain Giovanni Battista Tuli. Combat flags that will be kept in the Shrine of the flags of the Armed Forces at the altar of the Fatherland, in Rome.

With the cancellation from the roles of the military ship of Nave Euro of the Ship Aviere the process of downsizing and at the same time modernizing the Navy fleet continues.

However, a naval "emergency" program to stem the phenomenon of contraction of funds made possible by the financial interventions introduced with the Extraordinary Plan of the 2014 Stability Law and which allows the Armed Forces to have a modern, efficient and balanced aeronautical instrument in all its components and capable of expressing operational abilities adequate to the times and effective in fulfilling the tasks of the Institute and the missions established by the Political Authority.

 "That plan - said Admiral Cavo Dragone in his speech - it has only started a path that must be continued, above all to adapt some capacities ".