They won't confess it even under torture. Sardinia, however, is surrounded from this morning to dawn. The operative code is armored. The Notam, the aerial map of military operations, is reserved for the command boards of aircraft carriers and the cloche of fighters and airliners. Supersonic jets can circle, shoot and do whatever they want, the others, those with passengers, have to change the air. For them off-limits areas, from today until October 27th.
Notam of prohibitions
The excerpt from the Notam that we publish is the synthesis of the east, west and south coasts of the island. There are the Star off-limits zones h24 on the east side, those Yankee and Ray to the south and the D40s to the west. Areas of war, at sea, in the sky and in the firing ranges of Teulada, Quirra and Capo Frasca. It doesn't take long to understand that these are not the usual, already invasive, military exercises that upset and forbid Sardinia for most of the year. To confirm the extraordinary nature of what is happening on the island, the military leaders took care of it. With an explicit letter, sent to war in Ukraine already exploded, they communicated: all exercises are canceled.
Sardinia on alert
All suspended, except those "oriented to" warfighting "". Or, to understand, those explicitly intended for emergency response in a war conflict linked "to the evolution of the international chessboard". What has been happening for 48 hours on the Cagliari stage is the confirmation that Sardinia is foreclosed. The Port of Cagliari, from the Ichnusa pier passing through the Ponente one, up to the Porto Canale, is proof of an unprecedented mobilization. The map of the location of the aircraft carriers, of the combat ships, American, German and Italian attached to the Cagliari bollards, does not bode well. From this morning the NATO "battleships", with the support of fighters, starting with the brand new F35, could already be positioned in operational order to reach both the Salto di Quirra and Teulada shooting ranges.
Simultaneous nuclear
If the warfighting set-up is overt, it cannot be overshadowed that from this morning, simultaneously with the start of operations in Sardinia, NATO will start nuclear exercises involving the B-52 bombers in northern Europe. The annual "Steadfast Noon" nuclear exercise, with up to 60 aircraft that will take part in training flights over Belgium, the North Sea and Britain to practice the use of nuclear bombs based in Europe, takes on these times quite different given the dramatic evolution of the conflict in Ukraine. The "Sardinian" exercises, therefore, are placed in a scenario that sees Sardinia at the center of an unprecedented military operation between northern and southern Europe. The deployment of air and naval means on the island, moreover, could not go unnoticed.
