page_title: Italian Army 1975 reform
section_title: Anti-aircraft Artillery Command
hierarchical_section_title: Italian Army 1975 reform / Army General Staff / Anti-aircraft Artillery Command
caption_attribution_description: English: Italian Army Anti-aircraft Artillery Command reform changes 1975
context_page_description: With the 1975 reforms the Italian Army abolished the regimental level and replaced it with brigades made up of multiple arms. During the reform the army disbanded 48 regimental commands and reduced its force by 87 battalions. A further ten regimental commands were used to raise ten new brigade commands. Ten training centers, which for traditional reasons had carried the names of regiments, were also disbanded. The reduction in units also allowed to mechanize most of the remaining units in Northern Italy and Italy's defense strategy changed from a hold-at-all-costs territorial defense to one of mobile warfare.
  The reform was pushed through by General Andrea Cucino. Having become Chief of the General Staff of the Army on 1 February 1975, Cucino, concerned with the number of undermanned and underequipped units, ordered an immediate review of the army's structure. After two months Cucino and his staff presented a plan to restructure the entire army, and having secured an additional 1,100 billion Lire over 10 years to modernize the army's equipment, Cucino ordered the reform to begin with 1 September 1975.
context_section_description: In peacetime the Anti-aircraft Artillery Command was under administrative control of the Artillery Inspectorate in Rome, in wartime it would have come under operational control of NATO's Allied Land Forces Southern Europe Command in Verona.
   Anti-aircraft Artillery Command, in Padua
  new: Command Unit, in Padua
   4th Anti-aircraft Missile Artillery Regiment, in Mantua
  Command and Services Battery, in Mantua
  I Missile Group, in Ravenna (MIM-23 Hawk anti-aircraft missile systems)
  II Missile Group, in Mantua (MIM-23 Hawk anti-aircraft missile systems)
  24th Signal Company, in Mantua
   5th Anti-aircraft Missile Artillery Regiment, in Mestre
  Command and Services Battery, in Mestre
  I Missile Group, in San Donà di Piave (MIM-23 Hawk anti-aircraft missile systems)
  II Missile Group, in Rovigo (MIM-23 Hawk anti-aircraft missile systems)
  25th Signal Company, in Mestre
   17th Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment, in Brescia ->  17th Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group "Sforzesca" (assigned the war flag of the 17th Artillery Regiment "Sforzesca") ʘ-> Villafranca
  Command and Services Battery, in Brescia -> Command Battery ʘ-> Villafranca
  I Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, at Villafranca Air Base (L/70 40mm anti-aircraft cannons) -> 1st Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Battery / 17th Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group "Sforzesca"
  II Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, at Istrana Air Base (L/70 40mm anti-aircraft cannons) -> 3rd Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Battery / 17th Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group "Sforzesca"
  IV Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, at Ghedi Air Base (L/70 40mm anti-aircraft cannons) -> 2nd Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Battery / 17th Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group "Sforzesca"
   18th Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment, in Rimini -> disbanded, flag and traditions transferred to the I Field Artillery Group of the 13th Field Artillery Regiment
  Command and Services Battery, in Rimini -> disbanded
  I Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, in Rimini (L/70 40mm anti-aircraft cannons) -> III Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group --> 121st Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment "
  II Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, in Ferrara (L/70 40mm anti-aircraft cannons) -> IV Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group --> 121st Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment
   121st Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment, in Bologna
  Command and Services Battery, in Bologna
  I Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, in Bologna (L/70 40mm anti-aircraft cannons)
  II Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, in Reggio Emilia (L/70 40mm anti-aircraft cannons) ʘ-> Mestre on 10 March 1977
  new: 21st Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group "Sparviero" (Reserve), in Villafranca (equipment of the disbanded groups of the 17th Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment)
  new: 22nd Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Group "Alcione" (Reserve), in Bologna (equipment of the disbanded groups of the 17th Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment)
  Anti-aircraft Missiles Supply and Repairs Unit, in Montichiari
  Anti-aircraft Artillery Materiel Supply and Repairs Unit, in Bologna
caption: Anti-aircraft Artillery Command 1975 reform changes
  Italian Army reform 1975 color scheme.png
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