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Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier To Start F-35B STOVL Aircraft Qualifications With The U.S. Marine Corps Next Month Italian Navy Cavour Aircraft Carrier To Start F-35B STOVL Aircraft Qualifications With The U.S. Marine Corps Next Month The Italian Navy Cavour aircraft carrier. (Image credit: Marina Militare) The Cavour aircraft carrier will carry out F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) qualification off the U.S. East Coast. The Italian Navy Cavour aircraft carrier is about to start qualification with the new F-35B, the STOVL variant, of the Lightning II jet. The flagship of the ...

January 13, 2021 The Italian Navy is all set to begin qualification trials and training for F-35B Lightning II aircraft onboard its aircraft carrier Cavour, the Naval attache at the Italian Embassy informed during a virtual symposium. Cavour, the flagship of the Italian Navy, would reach the Naval Station Norfolk next month to commence F-35B STOVL qualifications with the United States Marine Corps. Currently, the vessel carries 10 AV-8B Harrier II aircraft and can support only fixed-wing V/STOL and helicopter air operations. It is the second aircraft carrier of the Marina Militare (Italian Na...

Additional reporting by Luca Peruzzi This was announced by Captain Gianfranco Vizzini, Naval Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC, during the Surface Navy Association (SNA) 2021 virtual Symposium.  “The major issue for 2021 is the ITS Cavour, our major carrier, that will be deployed here in the United States for what we have called ‘Ready for Operation Campaign’ that consists to achieve the qualification and to conduct joint and combined maritime operations by embarking F-35 Bravo air assets. The campaign will be executed in close cooperation with the U.S. Navy but especial...

Foreign Navy Chiefs compliment Sri Lanka Navy on 70th anniversary Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) Several foreign Navy Chiefs and Defence Attachés at embassies in Colombo sent their compliments to Navy Commander Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne to mark the 70th anniversary of Sri Lanka Navy which was celebrated on December 9, 2020, the Navy Media Unit said. Accordingly, Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chief of the Italian Navy and Colonel Denis I. Shkoda, Militara, Air and Naval Attaché to the Embassy of the...