Ship Francesco Morosini, second ship of the class Pattugliatori Polivalenti d’Altura (PPA) of the Italian Navy has left the naval base of La Spezia for a naval campaign in the Far East that will last 5 months.
“Hold high the honor and the flag of the Italian Navy.” With these words the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Enrico Credendino, intervened at the Naval Base of La Spezia, greeted the crew of Nave Morosini, for the Campaign in the Far East, the day before departure.
The activity, which will develop over a period of over five months and will end in September, will see the Unit become a witness of the country system and the excellence of the national industry, sailing “in an area where our Navy has been missing for several years, a world that we know little” – as reiterated by the Chief of Staff – “but on which there is a strong strategic interest, military, diplomatic and political”.
Admiral Credendino also wanted to underline how this activity allows us to “develop training synergies with foreign navies such as Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America”, guaranteeing high visibility to the Navy and more generally to the country, and allows “to show our flag in very complicated waters, in some ways even more disentangled than those of the Mediterranean”.
Yesterday in La Spezia at the departure the greeting to the crew of the Undersecretary of State for Defense Matteo Perego di Cremnago and the Commander in Chief of the Naval Squadron Admiral Aurelio De Carolis and numerous civil military authorities, as well as representatives of the management of the national industry.
“The mission you are about to undertake is very demanding but at the same time fascinating, I envy you and if I could go back in time I would make the choice of life that you have undertaken, enlisting in the Navy. I will support you throughout the campaign with conviction and pride”, said Matteo Perego di Cremnago Under Secretary of State for Defense to the crew.
Among the planned activities, for the promotion of industrial excellence in Defense, the presence at the Singapore International Maritime Defence Exhibition (IMDEX) and at the Langkawi International Maritime at Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA). This will be followed by participation in the South China Sea in the Indonesian-led Komodo 23 exercise focused on the search, rescue and evacuation of civilians during a crisis situation in the region and which will involve all the main countries of the Asian area overlooking the Pacific Ocean. During the campaign the patrol boat will go as far east as the waters of the China Sea reaching the ports of Yokosuka, Japan (14-18 June) and Pusan, South Korea (21-24 June) carrying out Naval Diplomacy activities in fifteen ports of fourteen countries of Southeast Asia.
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