Fincantieri manufactured eight Maestrale frigates for the Italian Navy in the 1980’s, with the last vessel commissioned in 1985 for Italy. The Italian Navy currently operates two Maestrale-class frigates, which they are phasing out in favor of the Bergamini-class frigate.
The vessels are123 meter in length, and at 3,040 tons, weighs less than half of the FREMM frigates. Manned by 225 officers and men, the Maestrale-class frigates boasted a variety of weapons, among them a range of antiship missiles, torpedoes, and 127 mm cannon.
Aside from the FREMM and Maestrale frigates, Prabowo also procured Eurofighter Typhoon multipurpose jets from Austria and F-15 EX fighters from the United States.
(Writer: Achmad Nasrudin Yahya | Editors: Icha Rastika, Rakhmat Nur Hakim)
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