F-583 Aviere Soldati Frigate Italian Navy Marina Militare

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F 583 ITS Aviere

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

STATUS:
Laid down: September 3, 1982 (as Iraqi F-15 Dhi Qar)
Launched: December 19, 1984
laid up in cause of weapon embargo
transferred to Italian Navy
Commissioned: January 4, 1995
Decommissioned: October 2, 2019
Fate: laid up

Namesake: Aviere = the aviator
Ships Motto: VIRTUTE SIDERUM TENUS (with valour to the stars)
Technical Data: see INFO > Soldati/Artigliere class Frigate

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ITS Aviere (F 583):

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.

Aviere was laid down on 3 September 1982 and launched on 19 December 1984. She was commissioned on 4 January 1995. Originally, the ship had been given the name Dhī Qār and the pennant number F-15.

From 18 November 2001, she took part in Operation Enduring Freedom, operating for 3 months in the Indian Ocean carrying out checks and inspections on merchant ships in transit in that area and conducting numerous escorts to naval units of the coalition, returning to Taranto on March 18, 2002.

In 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010 took part in Operation Active Endeavor, a naval military operation of NATO in the Mediterranean to prevent movements of terrorists or trafficking in weapons of mass destruction and in general to ensure the safety of the navigation in the main maritime communication routes of the Mediterranean.

In 2009, it took part in the UNIFIL Operation, under the aegis of the UN, for the control of Lebanese territorial waters, which achieved the removal of the Israeli naval blockade and restored sovereignty over its territorial waters and freedom of navigation to Lebanon.

In 2010, she took part in Operation Joint Warrior, in the waters off the north-west of Scotland, when the ship was integrated into NATO SNMG-2.

In 2011 and 2012, she took part in the editions of the IONIEX exercises, a bilateral Italian-Russian cooperation exercise to increase interoperability between the two navies with the participation of Black Sea Fleet Units of the Navy of the Russian Federation.

On a national level, in the last two years of service, she has participated in the OPEN SEA and AMPHEX exercises which also saw cooperation with the Army and the Air Force in a scenario that follows the latest crisis situations that broke out in the Mediterranean.

Ships of the Soldati-class are considered by the Navy to have reached operational limits. The decommissioning plan provides for its decommissioning in the sequence Artigliere, Granatiere, Aviere, Bersagliere. On 24 June 2018, the Aviere, together with F-575 ITS Euro and F-555 ITS Driade, left for the last naval campaign of her career after attending the Sea Future 2018 international exhibition at the Military Arsenal of La Spezia, with the students of 2nd course of the Francesco Morosini Military Naval School, and on July 16, 2018 the ceremony of dismissal from the roles is scheduled.

On 2 October 2019, at 18.00, at the quay of the Taranto military maritime arsenal, the Aviere, together with ITS Euro, carried out the last flagging in a solemn ceremony in the presence of the military, civil and religious. During the ceremony the combat flags of the two ships were delivered to the Commander in Chief of the Naval Squad, Division Admiral Donato Marzano and to the Chief of Staff of the Navy, squad admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone for forwarding to Rome and custody in the Shrine of the Flags of the Armed Forces, inside the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria).

source: wikipedia

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