Italy (Summoning Italy)

### Location

South-Western Europe in the Mediterranean Sea (Former) Philades Continent near the Philades Strait (Current)

### Currency

Euro

Italy (Italian: *Italia)* Officially **The Republic of Italy** is a country originally located in Southern Europe of the Mediterranean Sea. Is now located in the southern continent of Philades, bordering the Parapaldia Empire. Italy is the main protagonist of the story Summoning Italy by catcatsu.

## Military

The Italian Armed Forces are the set of military components of the Italian Republic.

The armed forces are made up of:

* Italian Army (*Esercito Italiano*) (land component)
* Italian Navy (*Marina Militare*) (naval component)
* Italian Air Force (*Aeronautica Militare*) (air component)
* Carabinieri (*Arma dei Carabinieri*) (since 2000 as an armed force): it is a land component with special gendarmerie functions with military police functions, competing in the integrated defense of the national territory.

Armed Corps:

* *Guardia di Finanza*: land and naval component, with general competence in economic and financial matters, having gendarmerie and exclusive security functions at sea, and special military police functions within the corps; it too is integrated into the defense of the national territory.

Auxiliary Corps:

* Volunteer military corps of the Italian Red Cross
* Military corps of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta auxiliary to the Italian Army
* Corps of volunteer nurses of ACISMOM
* Military Ordinariate.

The **Italian Army** (*EI*) is the land component of the Italian armed forces, such as the navy, air force and Carabinieri, dependent on the chief of defense staff and included in the Ministry of Defense.

There are six Military branch (*Armi*):

Infantry, with the following specialties:

* Grenadiers (*Granatieri*)
* Bersaglieri (*Bersaglieri*)
* Alpines (*Alpini*)
* Paratroopers (*Paracadutisti*)
* Lagooners (*Lagunari*) (Amphibious infantry)

Cavalry, with the following specialties:

* Line Cavalry (Dragoons, Lancers, Cavalrymen)
* Tank drivers (*Carristi*)

Artillery, with the following specialties:

* Land artillery (includes self-propelled and mountain artillery)
* Anti-aircraft artillery

Engineer, with the following specialties:

* Pioneers (*Pionieri*)
* Bridgemen (*Pontieri*)
* Railwaymen (*Ferrovieri*)
* Sappers (*Guastatori*): They support the fighting troops, soldiers specialized in the attack and defense of fortified works, but also in destroying armored vehicles, placing and defusing bombs.

Transmissions, with the following specialties:

* Telematics
* Electronic Warfare
* Transport and Materials Corps

The Corps of the Italian Army are the following:

* Commissariat Corps of the Italian Army
* Italian Army Medical Corps
* Army Corps of Engineers

Army Aviation: it is the only Specialty of the Armed Forces that does not belong to any branch or Corps of the Army but is made up of highly qualified personnel from any Branch, Corps or other Specialty.

Special forces:

* 9th Parachute Assault Regiment "Col Moschin"
* 185th Parachute Regiment RAO (Reconnaissance Target Acquisition Regiment)
* 4th Alpine Parachute Regiment (Ranger)

There are many weapons and equipment supplied to the Italian army, both of national production and from other countries. Its main battle tank is the Ariete C1, of which only two hundred examples exist, but there are also one hundred and twenty Leopard 1 some used for training and the others are support variants, such as the bridge version. The Centauro II MGS 120/105 is a tank destroyer, intended to carry out tactical reconnaissance, support of combat units and territorial defense tasks. It can escort convoys and be used for road patrol missions. It is currently one of the best Italian military vehicles produced.

As an assault helicopter it uses the AgustaWestland AW129, (the first attack helicopter to be designed and built in Western Europe). The Leonardo AW249 replacement is currently being designed.

The **Italian Navy** (*Marina Militare*) is the maritime operational component of the military defense of the Italian Republic. Its history begins in 1946 after the Second World War, with the birth of the Republic, inheriting the structure of the Royal Italian Navy and those naval units that the conditions of the armistice and the peace treaty left to Italy. After an expansion also due to the sale by the United States of America of some naval units and a construction program known as "naval law", necessary to deal with the threat coming from the Warsaw Pact, starting from the end of the twentieth century a downsizing program was implemented due to the reevaluation of the tasks of the armed force.

The Navy is divided into six Corps:

* General Staff Corps
* Marine Corps of Engineers comprising:
	+ Naval engineering specialty
	+ Infrastructure specialty
	+ Naval weapons specialty
* Maritime Military Medical Corps
* Maritime Military Commissariat
* Harbor Masters Corps - Coast Guard
* Maritime Military Crew Corps

The "Lighthouse Service"

The "Lighthouse and Maritime Signaling Service" according to its full name, indicates the management of the lighthouses located along the Italian coasts.

* Cavour (Flagship)
* Giuseppe Garibaldi (It will be used as a launch platform for the national space strategy, under the Joint Forces Command for Space Operations)

Destroyer:

* x2 Durand de la Penne Class
* x2 Orizzonte Class (Andrea Doria Class)

Submarines:

* x4 Sauro Class
* x8 U-212A Class (Todaro Class) (4 under construction and yet to be named)

Frigates:

* FREMM class (Bergamini class) (Role: Multi-role or anti-submarine)
* x2 Mistral Class

Patrol vessels:

* x3 Thaon di Revel-class (4 under construction)
* x4 Commander class
* x4 Cassiopeia class
* x2 Sirius Class

Coastal patrol vessels:

* x4 Explorer Class

Minehunter:

* x2 Lerici Class
* x8 Class

LHD (Landing Helicopter Dock)

* Trieste (Which would be the replacement for the Giuseppe Garibaldi aircraft carrier)

LPD:

* x3 San Giorgio Class (One of which should be replaced by the Trieste)

Supply ship:

* x1 Etna Class

Logistics support ship:

* x2 Vulcan class

Training ship:

* *Amerigo Vespucci*
* *Palinuro*
* *Caroly (A 5302)*
* *Stella Polare*
* *Italia*
* *Corsaro II*
* *Capricia*
* *Orsa Maggiore*

The elite unit of the Navy is the COMSUBIN (*Comando subacquei e incursori* "Teseo Tesei":

* Operational Raiders Group
* Operational Divers Group
* Special Naval Group
* Schools Group

The "San Marco" Marine Brigade is a large amphibious unit, it is the marine infantry of the Navy established on 1 March 2013, with the reorganization of the Navy Landing Force. It takes up the traditions of the first "Brigata Marina" established by the Royal Italian Navy in 1915. It has its command in Brindisi.

It is part of the joint amphibious component of the Sea Projection Force, whose commander is the same rear admiral as commander of the San Marco Marine Brigade.

Organization:

* Brigade Headquarters;
* 1st San Marco Regiment;
* 2nd San Marco Regiment;
* Landing craft group
* "Caorle" Schools Battalion;
* 3rd San Marco Regiment (Surveillance and internal order services).

The training of the 1st Regiment "San Marco":

The San Marco operatives are chosen from among the VFP4 or the students of the Petty Officer School of the Navy of Taranto. After a two-week incorporation period, there is an initial 4-5 week course for the selection of suitable candidates, who are sent to the Carlotto Barracks for the course managed by the Caorle School Battalion. The training includes a first phase of eight weeks for physical training, and a second phase of 12 weeks which includes the Technical Courses. In this second phase the Recruits are trained in various specific activities including: physical conditioning and martial arts activities, lesson periods and conferences, amphibious training, helicopter and rock wall exercises, use of individual and unit weapons supplied to the Force from Landing, day and night land combat, topography, amphibious doctrine, anti-NBC activities and other complex exercises. During training, those selected receive various specializations such as mortar, missileer, assaulter and pioneer.

Those eligible, before being employed in actual operations, must participate in two exercises on a national or NATO scale. The Officers are recruited from the Normal and Special Courses of the Naval Academy General Staff Corps: for the Normal Roles the 4th year is asked to wish to take the amphibious qualification. Once you have finished your studies at the Academy, after a medical examination (which, remember, Volunteers and NCOs also do), you are sent to Brindisi for a year, completing your preparation for a further year in the USA, at Quantico Marines Base (Virginia) with the United States Marines or with the Royal Marines.

The training of Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers, in Italy and in the USA, is one of the toughest among the conventional forces of the Italian Armed Forces.

The 1st "San Marco" Regiment is the only Italian unit and one of the few European units to be able to conduct simultaneously and independently (without the intervention of other units) actions by sea (such as landings), by land (such as mechanized attacks and artillery) and by air (as airborne troops, thanks to the helicopters supplied to the Eliassault department).

Finally, the Brigade also has anti-pirate tasks, both in the Mediterranean or when navy ships were deployed abroad, the brigade intervened for rescue when civilian ships, to be precise cargo ships, were under attack by pirates.

The aircraft in use by the Naval Aviation are:

* AV-8B+ Harrier II (Fighter)
* Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II (Fighter)
* Piaggio P.180 Avanti II (Transport aircraft)
* NHIndustries NH90 (helicopter) (ASW and Eliassault)
* AgustaWestland AW101 (helicopter) (ASW and HEW)
* Schiebel Camcopter S-100 (UAV)
* Boeing ScanEagle (UAV)

The **Air Force** (*Aereonautica Militare;* AM or ITAF) has the task of defending the national airspace. Born on 28 March 1923 and known until 17 June 1946 as the Regia Aeronautica Italiana.

Since its formation, the armed force has played a leading role in modern Italian military history.

It has an aerobatic team, called the *313° Gruppo Training Acrobatico, Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale* (313th Acrobatic Training Group, National Aerobatic Team) commonly known as "*Frecce Tricolori*".

The 17th Raiders Wing (*17° Stormo incursori*), part of the 1st Air Brigade "special operations", is part of the Italian special forces (TIER 1), under the operational command of the Special Forces Operations Command (COFS—*Comando interforze per le Operazioni delle Forze Speciali*). Their duties are Combat Controller/Combat SAR.

The aircraft in use by the Air Force are:

* Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon (Interceptor fighter)
* Lockheed Martin F-35 (A and B) Lightning II (Stealth-capable fighter-bomber)
* Panavia A-200 Tornado (Fighter-bomber, Electronic warfare)
* AMX International A-11 Ghibli (Ground attack aircraft)
* Gulfstream G550 CAEW (AEW Aircraft and Electronic Warfare)
* Gulfstream G550 AISREW (C4ISTAR Aircraft)
* Beechcraft King Air 350 (SIGINT aircraft)
* Alenia EC-27J JEDI (Electronic warfare aircraft)
* Leonardo P-72 Surveyor aircraft (Maritime patrol aircraft)
* General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (UAV)
* Boeing KC-767 (in-flight refueling)
* Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules (Transport aircraft)
* Alenia C-27J Spartan (Tactical transport aircraft)
* Airbus A319CJ (VIP transport aircraft)
* Dassault Falcon 50 (Tactical transport aircraft)
* Dassault Falcon 900 (Tactical transport aircraft)
* Piaggio P180 Avanti (VIP transport plane)
* AgustaWestland HH-101 Caesar (C/SAR helicopter)
* Agusta AB.212 (SAR helicopter)
* AgustaWestland HH-139 (SAR helicopter)
* AgustaWestland VH-139 (VIP transport helicopter)
* Breda Nardi NH 500 (Liaison helicopter and training helicopter)

Furthermore, the Italian Air Force, together with the British Royal Air Force and the Japanese Kōkū Jieitai, was developing the BAE Systems Tempest, a sixth generation stealth multi-role fighter, the project foresees entry into service for 2035. But now that Italy has been transferred to a new world, the fate of the project is still unknown.

The **Carabinieri** (first *Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali,* then *Arma dei Carabinieri Reali* and now *Arma dei Carabinieri*) is one of the Italian police forces, with general competence and permanent public security service. At the same time it is part of the Italian armed forces (since 2000 with the rank of armed force), hierarchically dependent on the Ministry of Defence, with functional dependence on the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies and also the Ministry of 'environment. It also contributes to traffic police services on ordinary roads as well as in the border service along land borders.

It has military police duties on the other three armed forces, at home and abroad, and is part of the European Gendarmerie Force. At its top there is a general commander with the rank of *generale di corpo d'armata con incarichi speciali*.

The Italian Carabinieri have been involved in many missions abroad, one of their first foreign deployments dating back to 1855, during the Crimean War.

They have a parachute regiment, the 1st Carabinieri Paratroopers Regiment "Tuscania" (*1° Reggimento Carabinieri Paracadutisti "Tuscania"*), an elite unit that has special operations roles, they are a diplomatic protection force, Military Police, they have also anti-terrorism tasks etc...

But there are also the Carabinieri Special Forces, whose members are chosen from this regiment. We are talking about the G.I.S or Special Intervention Group (*Gruppo di Intervento Speciale*). Elite unit of the Carabinieri, it is not only a special force, but also a tactical police unit.

**Special Forces Support Forces:**

* *9º Reggimento d'assalto paracadutisti "Col Moschin";*
* *4º Reggimento alpini paracadutisti;*
* *185º Reggimento paracadutisti Ricognizione Acquisizione Obiettivi.*
* *G.O.I. - Gruppo operativo incursori del COMSUBIN - Raggruppamento subacquei ed incursori "Teseo Tesei";*
* *17º Stormo incursori;*
* *G.I.S. - Gruppo intervento speciale.*

The operational support of special operations (S*upporto Operativo delle Operazioni Speciali* - *SOOS*) presupposes the availability of highly specialized fixed and rotary wing flight units for tactical transport. It also makes use of departments with specific resources for transmissions and operational communications:

* 3rd R.E.O.S. - "Aldebaran" special operations helicopter regiment (Army);
* 21st Flight Group of the 9th Wing "Francesco Baracca" (Air Force);
* Helicopter assault unit of the 1st Helicopter Group (Navy);
* 11th Transmission Regiment (Army).
* 28th "Pavia" Communications Regiment (Army).

In addition to the "Operational Support Units", the COFS can also make use, in the planning of FS missions, of individual departments available in the operational theater, such as exploration units, chosen based on the degree of operation or level of training. In the even partial lack of special operations forces in an operational theatre, it is therefore possible to draw from the third level. (Those who are not part of the special forces)

* Combat support company of the 1st "San Marco" Regiment (Navy);
* 1st Company of the 1st Parachute Carabinieri Regiment "Tuscania" (Carabinieri);
* Air Rifle Group from the 9th Wing "F.Baracca" (Air Force);
* Stos Air Rifle Company of the 16th "Force Protection" Wing (Air Force);
* Parachute scout platoon of the 183rd "Nembo" Parachute Regiment (Army);
* Parachute scout platoon of the 186th "Folgore" parachute regiment (Army);
* Parachute scout platoon of the 187th Parachute Regiment "Folgore" (Army);
* 1st Parachute Scout Squadron of the "Savoia Cavalleria" Regiment (3rd)
* Amphibious scout platoon of the "Serenissima" lagoon regiment (Army).