Ship Rizzo trains with the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier

(To Marina Militare)
11/03/21

As part of the consolidated and profitable air-naval cooperation with the United States Navy, last 05 March Nave Luigi Rizzo completed the joint training with the Carrier Strike Group 2 composed of the destroyer USS Mitscher, from the cruiser USS Monterey and from the aircraft carrier USS "IKE" Eisenhower.

Transiting off the Moroccan coast, with the bow facing the Gulf of Guinea, Nave Rizzo he was able to meet the US aero-naval group with which he carried out training activities at close range.

To welcome the formation of the sixth FREMM of the Italian fleet, the seamless take-off of about 20 F / A-18Es Super Hornet from the flight deck of the stars and stripes aircraft carrier. Nave's response was not long in coming Rizzo, which immediately took part in flight operations with one of the two SH-90s embarked, carrying out take-off and landing activities on the flight deck of the USS fighter Mitscher.

In the frame of the precious training moment shared by the two navies, close kinematic maneuvers were carried out, thus demonstrating complete interoperability between the Carrier Strike Group US and the Italian Navy represented by the FREMM named after the hero of Premuda.

"It has been a pleasure and an honor to sail alongside your beautiful ship": with these words the commander of the USS Eisenhower greeted the commander of Nave Rizzo.