First steel cut for new Italian Navy patrol ship

The PPA will be capable of dealing with surface, subsurface, and airborne threats. Her armament will include 76mm and 127mm naval guns, a 25mm close-range defence autocannon, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship/land attack missiles, and torpedoes.

Leonardo-Finmeccanica will provide the ship with an array of guidance systems, a combat management system, radars, a cockpit-style integrated navigation management system that can be operated by only two crewmembers, an infrared search and track sensor, a fire control system, an advanced sonar that can detect divers and underwater saboteurs.

Aviation facilities will be available for either two NH90 or one AW101 utility helicopter.

Variants of the Thaon di Revel-class PPAs have also been delivered to the Indonesian Navy.