Here’s What You Need to Know: The Italian navy was beset by problems during World War II. Italy’s Regia Marina was one of the busiest navies of the interwar period. Four old battleships were ...

Key Point: Rome worked hard to maintain parity with its neighbors during the 1930s. In fact, Italy was able to build battleships that rivaled France’s. Italy’s Regia Marina was one of the ...

Like so much about Italy’s wartime experience, the Italian Navy’s experience with aircraft carriers missed its moment. Some scholars have argued that if the war had begun in 1945, perhaps ...

With the introduction of fifth-generation aircraft capability with the F-35B, the Italian navy has upgraded its carrier strike component and this year’s deployment thus became a unique opportunity to ...

Benito Mussolini stood last week four-square on a package of exploding firecrackers. Zing!—the British Navy blanketed the Suez Canal. Zip!—Italian submarines prepared to counter with ...

At least twice in the first days of War the F-104 were ordered to take off for unknown aircraft heading towards Italy but in both cases the order was cancelled before the aircraft could take off.

An Italy Navy officer caught passing classified documents to Russian diplomats for money during clandestine meeting in Rome. It’s the most serious spying episode since the end of Cold War. An ...

An Italian carrier strike group on its first deployment to the Indo-Pacific region will sail through the South China Sea to the Philippines after participating in war games with U.S. allies in ...