13/11/23  |  Seaside
The Scaneagle project takes off from the flight deck of Nave Bergamini
The month of November 2023 saw the completion of the first flight of a remotely piloted aircraft carried out on board a Navy unit (APRM ScanEagle). Ship...
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06/11/23  |  Seaside
The first part of the Around the World Campaign 2023-2025 world tour of Nave Amerigo Vespucci ends today
After having crossed the Pillars of Hercules, crossed the Atlantic Ocean from north to south and crossed the equator, the Veliero reaches the 10th and final stop: La Plata, in Argentina. There...
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03/11/23  |  Seaside
The Volunteer students on Initial Service take the oath in the “Comando” Square of La Maddalena
Do you swear by it? I swear!! It is now customary for one of the four annual oaths to take place outside the School in the setting of Piazza Umberto I - for all "Piazza...
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30/10/23  |  Seaside
Nave Marceglia: three months of deployment in the NATO operation “BRILLIANT SHIELD” in the Baltic Sea
On 25 October 2023, Nave Antonio Marceglia left the port of Riga, thus returning to sail in the waters of the Baltic Sea where it is engaged in...
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26/10/23  |  Seaside
Nave Magnaghi moored in La Spezia after an activity lasting 150 days
​On 18 October, the Admiral Magnaghi returned to the port of La Spezia, concluding the 2023 hydro-oceanographic campaign. This campaign saw the three units overall...
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25/10/23  |  Seaside
Exercise Breeze 2023
The "BREEZE" exercise, now in its 27th edition, is a "maritime-focused" tactical training event with multinational participation, planned and carried out annually in...
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25/10/23  |  Seaside
Visit by Admiral Keith Davids Commander of Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC)
In recent days, the commander of the United States Navy Special Forces (US Naval Special Warfare Command - NSWC), Admiral Keith B. Davids, went to the...
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24/10/23  |  Seaside
Lamp ceremony for the Red Cross Nurses at the Naval Academy
Saturday 21 October 2023, on the occasion of the 115th anniversary of the foundation of the body of Volunteer Nurses of the Italian Red Cross, the Naval Academy, for the first time in...
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24/10/23  |  Seaside
121 new graduates among the marshals of the Non-Commissioned Officers School of Taranto
​On October 18th, with the award ceremony of the three-year degree diplomas in Science and Business Management...
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23/10/23  |  Seaside
Brazilian soldiers embark aboard the Vespucci ship
On the crossing from Fortaleza to Rio de Janeiro, 10 Brazilian soldiers, of different ranks and categories, experienced the...
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23/10/23  |  Seaside
Palinuro training ship visits the port of Taranto
The Palinuro training ship departs from Taranto, after having made a logistical stop, in the post-2023 campaign period...
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18/10/23  |  Seaside
The Steadfast Jupiter 2023 is underway
​The command of the Italian maritime forces (COMITMARFOR) starts the CAX/CPX (Computer Assisted Exercise/...
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17/10/23  |  Seaside
The Navy at the 29th edition of the European underwater activities exhibition
The Navy, represented by Comsubin raiders and divers, participated in the 29th edition of Eudi...
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17/10/23  |  Seaside
Italian and Albanian divers work together to monitor underwater pipelines
On 12 and 13 October, Nave Chioggia was engaged in bottom survey activities in...
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16/10/23  |  Seaside
Navy instructors with MOST sea-riders train NATO ships
The consolidated cooperation between the command of the mine countermeasure forces (MARICODRAG) and the mine countermeasure...
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16/10/23  |  Seaside
The installation of Nave Trieste continues at the Arsenale Triestino “San Marco”
On the morning of Monday 02 October 2023, after approximately four days of navigation, Nave Trieste entered the...
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13/10/23  |  Seaside
OMS: change of tactical command at sea, Admiral Manganaro takes over from Admiral Costantino
New rotation at sea tactical command of Operation Safe Mediterranean. On board the amphibious ship San Giusto,...
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13/10/23  |  Seaside
Greetings to Nave Vesuvio and Nave Bormida in La Spezia
Last October 11, 2023, the last ceremony of...
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12/10/23  |  Seaside
The Navy in collaboration with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Last autumn, the Stromboli volcano produced a pyroclastic flow and a subsequent lava flow which...
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12/10/23  |  Seaside
The journey begins for 6 new officers of the San Marco marine brigade
Thursday 05 October 2023 took place at the Piazza d'Armi of the Castello Svevo in Brindisi, headquarters of the command of the...
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Tribute (due) to the 80th "Roma" infantry who takes leave with honor

Well, yes, we are now used to witnessing the closure of the barracks and perhaps even a little to burying the long history of the departments, a phenomenon which however does not erase the memories. It also touched...

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"Il Signor Parolini" (ninth part)

The baked chicken, as expected, had lived up to its reputation, consolidating, where needed, the undisputed culinary mastery of Gastone, chief ...

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The Last Ethnic Cleansing: Nagorno Karabakh
At the end of September this month, it will be one year since the exodus of the Armenian population expelled by the armed forces of Azerbaijan with the support of Turkey in Nagorno Karabakh (this is...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Are the chiefs of staff also censored now?"
Dear director, I have read the speech given by General Masiello to the 40th of the Lagunari and, remembering having read the Army Press Release (it dates back to 25 June, you were not...
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