Last August 12 Nave look-out has consolidated its moorings in Sharm El Sheik in support of the activity of the Multinational Peace Force (Multinational Force & Observes - MFO) which sees the Navy as a protagonist for some time, engaged on the maritime front to ensure compliance with the 1978 Camp David agreements and the subsequent Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty of 1979.
The coastal patrol vessel, commanded by vessel lieutenant Ambra Francolini, belongs to the explorer class and depends on the third naval division; after a long stop for work at the Brindisi naval base, the unit left last July 24 sailing in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean and crossing the Suez Canal, to arrive in Sinai at the base of the tenth coastal naval group (COMGRUPNAVCOST 10) .
For a few weeks all four units of the class Explorer - Ship look-out, Ship Relay, Ship Sentinel of the Ship Explorer – will be deployed in Sinai together for the first time. The presence of the Navy within the maritime component of the MFO, with duties of presence and surveillance, began in 1982.
With the arrival of Nave look-out in the Red Sea, to date, there are eleven naval units of the Navy engaged outside the Mediterranean basin in national activities and international missions, in the North Sea, in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, in the Persian Gulf, to protect national interests in the whole of the enlarged Mediterranean.
A complex of activities extended outside the straits which, together with the daily commitment in the waters of the Mediterranean, concretizes the maneuver scheme of the Armed Forces, consolidating the presence in the areas of strategic interest of the country.
