F-582 Artigliere Soldati Frigate Italian Navy MarinaMilitare

Italian Navy / Marina Militare Italiana - Frigate
F 582 ITS Artigliere

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Type, class: Frigate; Soldati (Artigliere) class
Builder: Fincantieri, Ancona, Italy

STATUS:
Laid down: March 31, 1982 (as Iraqi F-14 Hittin)
Launched: July 27, 1983
laid up in cause of weapon embargo
transferred to Italian Navy
Commissioned: October 28, 1994
Decommissioned: December 13, 2013
Fate: laid up / maybe for sale

Namesake: Artigliere = the artilleryman
Ships Motto: PRIMI VELITUM (first to the fight)
Technical Data: see INFO > Soldati/Artigliere class Frigate

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ITS Artigliere (F 582):

Iraq ordered four Lupo-class frigates from CNR in 1980 as part of a naval expansion program just before the Iran-Iraq War. Due to restrictions on arm sales to Iraq because of the Iran-Iraq War placed by the Italian prime minister, the ships remained interned in Italy until the end of that war in 1988.

Negotiations and court proceedings were still ongoing when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and a new arms embargo against Iraq was placed by the United Nations, again blocking the sale.

In 1993 all of them were seized and, after being refitted as patrol ships, incorporated to the Italian Navy as the Soldati class.

Having joined the Italian Navy, Artigliere has had an intense operational life with the participation in various operations carried out jointly with units of allied navies. The ship took part in the patrol of the Adriatic between 1995 and 2000 interspersed with a Naval Campaign in South East Asia between September 1997 and January 1998.

She then took part in Operation Active Endeavor, on several occasions, between 2002 and 2005, as part of STANAVFORMED (NATO Standing Naval Force, Mediterranean) in the Eastern Mediterranean in 2002 and as part of STANAVFORLANT (NATO Standing Naval Force, Atlantic) also in the Eastern Mediterranean in 2002, 2003 and 2005.

Also in May 2005, she was the command Ship of the MCMFORSOUTH, the Mine Countermeasures Force and between September and October she carried out naval training at the Naval Training Center of the Italian Navy.

In 2006, she took part in the bilateral Italian-Maltese exercise CANALE 06 in the waters of the Strait of Sicily.

On January 31, 2012 the unit was placed in RTD (Reduced Availability Table).

On December 13, 2013, at the Sottoflutto pier of the port of Castellammare di Stabia, the lowering of her flag took place. The ceremony was attended by civil and military authorities, including the mayor of Castellammare di Stabia, the vice-president of the retired artillerymen association, General Genta and the Chief of Staff of the Navy Admiral De Giorgi to whom the last commander of the unit, frigate captain Paolo Casulli handed over the combat flag.

In 2015, she was mothballed in the Arsenale of La Spezia.

patches + more

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note - the motto is written "primi velitus"

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