The Lupo- class is a class of frigates that were built for the Italian Marina Militare , the Peruvian Navy, and the Venezuelan Navy in the 1970s . In addition to four ships of the Lupo class, Italy put four identical ships into service that were not equipped for submarine hunting and were therefore designated in the Italian Navy as patrol frigates of the Artigliere class . Lupo-class frigates are now only in service in Peru and Venezuela. A total of 18 ships of this type were built.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the Marina Militare began planning new multi-purpose frigates based on experience with the Alpino class . Initially, four Lupo-class units were built in Riva Trigoso near Genoa and put into service from September 1977 to March 1980. The eight enlarged frigates of the Maestrale class , which were mainly used for submarine hunting , while the four ships of the Lupo class were intended for surface warfare, were a further development . Around 2003 the four Lupo-class frigates were decommissioned, subjected to extensive modernization work and then handed over to the Peruvian Navy, which already had four of these ships.
The Iraq ordered in 1981 in Italy four frigates of the Lupo class in an export version and six corvettes and a catering . After completion, however, the frigates were subject to an international arms embargo and remained in the port of La Spezia until 1994 . After renovation work, they were taken over by the Italian Navy until 1996 under the designations Artigliere class or Soldati class . They supplemented the original four units of the Lupo class, initially only in the areas of migration control, embargo enforcement, etc. After the first four units were decommissioned in 2003, only the four frigates of the Artigliere remained in addition to the eight frigates of the Maestrale class -Class. They were also decommissioned by 2018.
The first four frigates were named after Italian torpedo boats that distinguished themselves during World War II . The last four units were named after the lowest ranks of the armed forces or branches of service. Artigliere means artilleryman , Aviere stands for aviator , Bersagliere for a rifleman of the Bersaglieri and Grenatiere for a grenadier of the Granatieri di Sardegna . These ship names were given to other ships in the past. On the frigate Bersagliere , which circumnavigated the globe with the destroyer Luigi Durand de la Penne from 1996 to 1997 , a newly developed on-board gun of the type 127/64 Lightweight was scaffolded for testing purposes.
Peru
Peru was involved in the Lupo project from the start and ordered four units as early as 1973, which are called the Carvajal class there. The first two frigates were built in Italy and handed over to the Peruvian Navy in late 1978 and early 1979. The last two units were in the early 1980s by Fincantieri - license from the Servicio Industrial de la Marina (SIMA) in Callao built. As part of modernization work, the frigates were given enlarged flight decks that can also be used by larger Sea King helicopters .
The four units of the Lupo class, which were taken over by the Italian Navy between 2004 and 2006, form the Aguirre class in Peru , a sub -class of the Carvajal class . All eight Peruvian ships are named after heroes of the Saltpeter War. The identifier FM stands for Fragata Misilera or "guided missile frigate ", the ship's name prefix BAP for Buque de la Armada Peruana or "ship of the Peruvian Navy".
Venezuela ordered six Lupo-class frigates in October 1975, which were built between 1976 and 1981, two of them ( ARV General Urdaneta and ARV General Salóm ) in Riva Trigoso near Genoa, the remaining four units in Ancona . In Venezuela, the six ships form the Mariscal Sucre class , named after Antonio José de Sucre . The first two units in the class were modernized by Ingalls Shipbuilding in the United States between 1998 and 2002 . The remaining ships were modernized in Puerto Cabello because of the political tensions between Venezuela and the USA , but only in part. The work concerned the drive and the sensors.
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