Within the Pacific the oldest and latest ship of the Italian Navy

(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 24 – Within the waters of the Pacific Ocean, the oldest ship within the Italian Naval Squadron and the youngest to affix the Italian Navy are touring collectively in direction of Honolulu, within the Hawaiian Islands. The coaching ship Vespucci – launched in 1931 – is carrying the scholars of the primary class of the Naval Academy of Livorno, to finish the training obtained at college throughout their first yr on the Academy. The Montecuccoli is “expertise made right into a ship”, a ‘multipurpose fight ship’ engaged in an operational projection marketing campaign that after crossing the Atlantic has entered the Pacific, by way of the Panama Canal, the place it’s taking part in intense coaching and operational exercise with accomplice and allied navies. The ship is characterised by two extremely modular areas: one amidships and the opposite aft, whereas the bridge space designed like an airplane cockpit ensures wide-ranging visibility. The bridge can be the technological middle of those models as a result of it brings collectively in a single setting all of the management, self-defense and assault, navigation and propulsion programs. (ANSA).