There are 5 naval assets of the Italian Navy and the Spanish Navy that have participated in NATO Naval Electro Magnetic Operations (NEMO) Trials, held from 1 to 4 November. The exercise took place in the waters of the Gulf of Cadiz under the guidance of the COMANDES-31, capt Gonzalo Leira Neira, embarked on the Spanish frigate Mendez-Nunez.
In the training areas of Torregorda and Punta Camarinal, inside the Gulf of Cadiz, Nave Andrea Doria and the units of the Spanish Navy engaged in a series of demanding exercises in the context of the NEMO Trials, one of the most important training activities conducted by NATO in the field of electronic warfare and anti-missile defense of a naval force.
Ship Andrea Doria has demonstrated its operational readiness to combat by rapidly integrating with the aeronaval assets of the Spanish Navy and highlighting its peculiar multirole capabilities of detection and contrast to the air threat with particular regard to reactions soft kill.
The training scenario envisaged the conduct of the activities starting from an initial phase of integration between the participating naval, air and land assets, and then continuing with a serial phase that saw the specialized organic teams intensively engaged in anti-missile defense, employing countermeasures soft kill and the launch of decoy in a training context characterized by jamming.
The DA-20 aircraft, equipped with jammers and radar frequency simulators supplied by NATO JEWCS (Joint Eletronic Warfare Core Staff), combined with F18 aircraft of the Spanish Air and Space Force (SASF) and AV8B + of the Spanish Navy, simulated carriers with anti-ship missile, allowing training in air defense and anti-missile reaction by means of soft kill in a degraded environment characterized by imitative disturbances and deceptions.
This purely naval phase was accompanied by an intense activity carried out with the systems located on land near Torregorda and Punta Camarinal, where it was possible to test the GPS equipment in the presence of jamming.
The exercise represented an extraordinary training opportunity for personnel who, in addition to training in a multinational and multidisciplinary context, were also able to test their systems to their full operational potential, thus enriching their professional background of experience and knowledge.
