page_title: Italian frigate Carabiniere (F 581)
section_title: Anti-submarine frigate
hierarchical_section_title: Italian frigate Carabiniere (F 581) / Service / Anti-submarine frigate
caption_attribution_description: The Italian frigate Carabiniere (F581) operates in the Mediterranean Sea in 1979.
context_page_description: Carabiniere was a frigate operated by the Italian Navy. Launched in 1967, the vessel served in the anti-submarine role during the Cold War until 1992. The ship was then recommissioned as a testing platform for new weapons systems, including Aster, finally retiring in 2008.
context_section_description: Commissioned on 28 April 1968, Carabiniere served with the 1º Gruppo Navale d'Altura based at La Spezia. In 1973, when the school ship Amerigo Vespucci was inactive due to maintenance, Carabiniere was one of a number of Italian naval vessels used as a summer school cruise ship for students at the Italian Naval Academy. The vessel subsequently visited Istanbul, Odessa and Sevastopol alongside the destroyer Impavido.
  During the 1970s, the ship was updated.  The helicopters were replaced by the more capable AB-212ASW and a SLQ-A ECM system was added. The ship was further upgraded in the 1980s. Hull-mounted sonar and the SLQ-747 ECM suite was fitted.
caption: Carabiniere underway in the Mediterranean in 1979
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