The maxi-exercise of the Italian Navy "Mare Aperto 2021" also touches Sardinia. The major maneuvers began last October 4 and are engaging more than 4,000 soldiers belonging to the Italian Navy and to the eight Marines, allies and partners, participating.

"This is - explained Undersecretary of Defense Stefania Pucciarelli - of the most important and complex exercise of our Navy which involves all its articulations - commands and staff, embarked and static, operational, training and support components - on a large portion of multidimensional space including the waters and the coastal and coastal areas of the Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian and Sicilian Channel, under the supervision of the Command in Chief of the Naval Squadron ".

"This morning - continues Pucciarelli -, in the Sardinian shooting range of Capo Teulada, I witnessed an amphibious landing operation, a strategic intervention option that places our Navy and Italy in a small group of nations with a similar niche component, guaranteed by the synergy between the capabilities of the air-naval device and those of the Marina San Marco Brigade, from this year in NATO standard certification to take on the role of amphibious component of the Alliance's rapid response force in 2022 ”.

"In this activity - underlined Pucciarelli - I appreciated the extraordinary professionalism of our sailors with 'Le Stellette', called to conduct exercises with increasingly higher degrees of difficulty, necessary to respond to scenarios characterized by tensions, risks and threats increasing in number. , typology and complexity ”, concluded the undersecretary.

(Unioneonline / lf)