Giuseppe Garibaldi (551)

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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi (551) underway in the Atlantic Ocean.jpg
Ship data
flag ItalyItaly (naval war flag) Italy
Ship type Aircraft carrier
Shipyard Italcantieri, Monfalcone
Keel laying March 26, 1981
Launch June 4th 1983
Commissioning September 30, 1985
Ship dimensions and crew
length
180 m ( Lüa )
width 33.4 m
Draft Max. 6.5 m
displacement 13,850  t
 
crew 775 men
Machine system
machine 4 Avio - gas turbines
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format
73,548 kW (99,997 hp)
Top
speed
30 kn (56 km / h)
Armament
Sensors
  • Radar SPN-728, SPN-749, RTN-30 X, SPS-744
  • SPS-52C and SPS-768 aerial search radars

The Giuseppe Garibaldi (ID: 551) is an Italian aircraft carrier . She has been in the service of Marina Militare since 1985 , her home port is Taranto . She is the fourth ship to be named after the Italian national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi .

history

The Giuseppe Garibaldi (in the foreground) with the USS America in the Adriatic during NATO's Operation Joint Endeavor , January 1996

The ship was commissioned in 1979 as a flight deck cruiser and was primarily intended to be used for hunting submarines . Modeled on the British carrier HMS Invincible , it was built in the STOVL design. Since a regulation from the post-war period forbade the Italian Navy to use combat aircraft, the ship was never officially declared as an aircraft carrier. Until the lifting of this ban in 1989, the ship was therefore as a helicopter carrier used and experienced only during some maneuvers with the Royal Navy use by British fighter aircraft of the type Hawker Siddeley Harrier . From 1994 the Italian Navy acquired 18 machines of the type AV-8B Harrier II and used them on the Giuseppe Garibaldi . The V / STOL aircraft take off via the front flight deck ramp ( ski jump ), which rises by 6.5 ° . Flight operations take place on a 173 m long and 28 m wide flight deck with two elevators.

The original design as a flight deck cruiser explains the relatively strong armament of the ship: In addition to guns for self-defense, it has torpedo tubes , anti- ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles. The rocket launchers for anti-ship missiles were removed in 2003 during renovation work.

In the summer of 1991 the Giuseppe Garibaldi crossed the Atlantic to take over two two -seat TAV-8B in Norfolk (Virginia) and to bring these two Harrier trainers to their base in Tarento-Grottaglie . In 1994, in Norfolk, she took over another three single-seat AV-8B + models built in the USA, while the remaining machines were assembled in Italy.

Because of the wars in the former Yugoslavia , the Garibaldi completed its first mission in the Adriatic in 1993 as part of Operation Sharp Guard . In 1994 and 1995 she led two squadrons to Somalia (25º / 26º Gruppo navale , UNOSOM II ) . In 1999 she returned to the Adriatic Sea and took part in Operation Allied Force with her Harriers .

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , the ship operated as part of Operation Enduring Freedom from late 2001 to early 2002 in the Indian Ocean and also took part in air strikes against targets in Afghanistan with its fighter planes . After the above-mentioned modernization work in 2003, a participation in exercise Majestic Eagle in the Atlantic followed in 2004 .

In 2006, the Garibaldi led an amphibious unit off the coast of Lebanon , where the UNIFIL troops there had to be reinforced. In the spring of 2011, the carrier was made available for international military operations in Libya .

Since the end of 2012, the Garibaldi has been used in a new role as a helicopter carrier for amphibious operations. It only accepts aircraft if the aircraft carrier Cavour , which entered service in 2009, is unavailable due to docking times or for other reasons. In her new role, the Garibaldi complements the landing ships of the San Giorgio class and thus the amphibious forces of the San Marco Brigade .

From October 2013 to October 2014, the Garibaldi in the Taranto Naval Arsenal underwent various modernization work, which will allow the carrier to continue to be used until around 2025. The amphibious assault ship Trieste is planned as its successor , which is to take on helicopters as well as airplanes on its continuous flight deck.

The Garibaldi is the flagship of Operation Sophia , which u. a. To track down people smugglers in the Mediterranean Sea (as of August 2016). On August 22, 2016, Angela Merkel , François Hollande and Matteo Renzi met on board to talk about the future of the European Union .

See also

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Garibaldi (551)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Italian aircraft carrier "Giuseppe Garibaldi". Süddeutsche Zeitung / dpa, August 22, 2016, accessed on August 26, 2020 .