F-35B, how the Navy and Air Force exercise on Nave Cavour went
The Cavour ship exercise with Navy and Air Force F-35B aircraft concluded. All the details
The exercise on the Cavour aircraft carrier with Navy and Air Force F-35B aircraft concluded, in synergy with the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
This was reported yesterday in a press release from the Ministry of Defense.
"For the first time an F-35B of the Italian Air Force landed and took off from the aircraft carrier of the Cavour Navy" underlined Pietro Batacchi, director of Rid .
The F-35B is the “short take-off and vertical landing variant” of the F-35, the fifth generation fighter aircraft of the Joint Strike Fighter program next to the Navy in the Stovl variant to replace the AV8B-plus.
The Italian Navy bought 15 F-35Bs. The Air Force also ordered the same quantity of Model B, as well as 60 F-35A Ctol (conventional take-off).
The qualification for the F-35B will allow Nave Cavour to participate in joint operations between the Italian Mm and the United States Marine Corps (Usmc).
“The joint activity of Navy and Air Force F-35B aircraft aboard the Cavour aircraft carrier comes after a long period of tension between the two Armed Forces regarding the assignment of aircraft and the use of differentiated bases”, remembers Analysis Defense . At the moment the Navy has 3 F-35Bs and the Air Force only one.
Furthermore, the success of the exercise comes after last week's accident involving a British F-35. On November 17, the UK Ministry of Defense confirmed the crash of an F-35 Lightning II operating from the aircraft carrier HMSQueen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean. The pilot ejected himself safely, but the crash triggered a rush to retrieve the plane, which contains a lot of classified equipment.
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THE JOINT OPERATION BETWEEN MARINA'S F-35B AND AERONAUTICA
The operation saw the Italian F-35Bs landing on the British ship (HMS Queen Elizabeth); American F-35Bs that pinned on the Italian ship (Cavour) and F-35Bs of the Air Force and Navy that pinned on Nave Cavour in synergy.
"The aerial activity aboard the Cavour aircraft carrier, carried out in full synergy between the Navy and the Air Force, represents a milestone in the development of the national ability to project from the sea the potential offered by the new fifth generation aircraft, the F-35B", he reads in the note.
The activity ended on November 22, in the central Mediterranean, in the presence of the Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone. Also present were the Chief of Staff of the Navy, team admiral Enrico Credendino, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, air squad general Luca Goretti.
In addition, the activity saw the aircraft of four different components: Am, Mm, Us Marine Corp and the British who carried out air combat operations, "demonstrating even the most total compatibility in the air", underlined the head of Smd Cavo. Dragon.
ACTIVITY ON BOARD THE CAVOUR CARRIER
We also remember that Nave Cavour has just returned from a recent campaign in the United States where in March it obtained certification for boarding the F-35s.
THE COMMENT OF ADMIRAL CAVO DRAGONE, CHIEF SMD
"In addition to the excellent capabilities already achieved by the Air Force F-35As, both in the operational field and in real operations, today's exercise represents a strong impetus in the process of developing the national air projection capability from the sea, with the integration of fifth generation joint aerotactic multirole aircraft, allowing our country to be the only one able to guarantee this contribution within the European Union ”, highlighted Admiral Cavo Dragone.
"The synergies between the Navy and the Air Force in the use of the F-35Bs on board the aircraft carrier will also be achieved in the use from the ground, operating jointly in operational situations where suitable landing strips for conventional aircraft are not available" he concluded.
SYNERGY WITH AIRCRAFT CARRIER QUEEN ELIZABETH
Finally, in the interaction with the British aircraft carrier, thanks to the high level of interoperability achieved, two Italian F-35Bs are stationed on the Queen Elizabeth and at the same time two F-35Bs of the US Marine Corps, embarked on the English ship, are stationed on the Italian aircraft carrier. Cavour.
"The interaction also saw further training activity in flight with the involvement of F-35Bs that took off from the two aircraft carriers, which carried out a demanding air combat mission".
In addition to the success of the joint activities carried out by the Navy and Air Force aircraft on board Nave Cavour, the interaction with the British aircraft carrier group made it possible to successfully test the joint technical-operational procedures aimed at achieving full interoperability between the two Marines.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/f-35b-come-e-andata-lesercitazione-di-marina-e-aeronautica-su-nave-cavour/ on Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:46:24 +0000.