None or almost say, but the Italian Navy through a time of great tension. Crisis. On the uncertainty. Due to constant budget cuts and stupid Defense, myopic policies and – above all – a lack of strategic vision of national interests, our Navy today is in its death throes. The fleet sinks, not in the dark waters of Lissa or head Matapam (terrible defeats but crossed by balugini pride), but in the pond of the Defence Committee of the Parliament or in the study of Mrs. Umberto Pinotti in via XX Settembre. The indifference of the policy.
Here’s how the fleet sinks
The fleet sinks into rust and disinterest of most. The teams offshore and coastal consist mostly of old ships, terribly old. The flag waving on unit worn, with more or less thirty years of seniority: the Garibaldi, the class frigates Grecale, of suppliers of the team, the San Giusto / San Marco, the corvettes do not make it anymore. Operation is now reduced to thirty percent. The national and international missions get harder to deal with.
The fleet sinks into the sinking of the Italian system. The obsolescence of the fleet is an inevitable fact and the situation will worsen. In the absence of new investment and an important project and forward-looking, soon our Marina, warns the Navy in its document “Perspectives and guidelines of the MM for the period 2015-2025″ edited in the fall of last year, shortly the fleet will shrink by 65 percent. Within the next decade, our Navy will go from the current 60 to 21 units, or ten – considering maintenance cycles and failure – and lose the ability to operate continuously and in doing tasks in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean. Mari increasingly restless, dangerous. Turbid.
Our yards are an Italian excellence
Of course, there is news. New variety. Sure, our yards still represent Italian excellence. Sure, the Cavour, the two fighters, FREMM frigates, submarines AIP are good ships. But this is not enough. And not enough even programs currently planned and funded – the completion of the two Fremm provided, the construction of two more submarines, a support ship multipurpose logistics unit and an amphibious. Numbers are important but insufficient in the face of disarmament (sad but inevitable) of the older units, a real massacre ship.
Hence the urgency of a choice. If we want Italy accounts still something in the Mediterranean area, weights a little something in the game of alliances – a tournament heavy and merciless, as he remembered the good Hegel states are cold monsters – is necessary, urgent program naval extraordinary – the example Law naval 1975 – to preserve at least a part of our national maritime capacity. The projects, plans, studies are ready for some time. Admirals – despite the odd recruitment campaigns in English in recent months – have not quite lost the Trabzon …
But mostly Italian shipyards – a heritage of 25 thousand technicians and skilled workers – have full capacity and technology to build 3/4 ships a year. An important showcase for military exports – an important segment, see the success of orders for Algeria and the United Arab Emirates, but little exploited for political reasons – to transfer to a hypothetical tomorrow in the civil field, generating additional benefits for ‘ national economy.
There is, once again, the political will, a broad and intelligent. A dash of courage. An idea of the risks and benefits of geopolitics. In the seventies governments Democrats – detestable in many respects, but not stupid – they understood the importance of the issue and intervened, investing money and resources on the Navy. With all their faults, Andreotti, Moro Area had clear the centrality of the Mare Nostrum and acted accordingly.
Today Mrs. Pinotti is not exposed and tergiversa. Renzi cares. The opposition thinks its internal squabbles. The Mediterranean burns. The fleet sinks.
from http://www.destra.it/il-mediterraneo-brucia-e-la-flotta-disarma-e-affonda/
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