110th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Anti-Aircraft Department

(To Army Majority State)
10/01/25

This morning, the 110th anniversary of the establishment of the first Italian anti-aircraft unit was celebrated at the Santa Barbara barracks in Sabaudia, home to the Army's anti-aircraft artillery command.

After the flag-raising ceremony and the laying of a laurel wreath at the war memorial, the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery, Brigadier General Giuseppe Amodio, in extending his best wishes to all anti-aircraft artillerymen for the anniversary of the establishment of the specialty, recalled that in 1915, with the establishment of the first anti-aircraft unit in Nettuno, the anti-aircraft specialty actually received a defined organic structure and was supplied with personnel, means and materials to be able to face that new threat coming from the sky.

On this occasion, General Amodio delivered to the personnel of COMACA, of the 4th and 17th anti-aircraft artillery regiments the certificates relating to the qualifications for the airspace control (CSA). The qualified officers and non-commissioned officers, at the end of a complex training process of high technical-operational value, carry out tasks connected with the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (DAMI), both nationally and abroad, to fulfill the Army's anti-aircraft artillery mission.

Training, technology and values ​​are the pillars for the formation of the “modern” anti-aircraft gunner who has innovative technologies and top-level skills to ensure the protection of friendly and allied forces, infrastructures and the population from air, missile and drone threats, operating at different altitudes.

Anti-aircraft artillery is an increasingly necessary component in military operations, in joint and multinational contexts, deployed at home and abroad to face and overcome all the challenges imposed by the changed international situation.