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Fincantieri has delivered a new submarine to Marina Militare Italiana
Is the last one of a series of four twin units of the class "Todaro" commissioned by the NAVARM
May 11, 2017
Today in the ship yard of Muggiano (La Spezia) the navalmeccanico group Fincantieri has delivered to Marina Militare Italiana the new Romeo Romei submarine, last of a series of four twin units of the class "Todaro", type U212A, commissioned from the Direction of Naval Armaments - NAVARM for Marina.
the submarine has a displacement of surface of 1.509 tons, a lenght overall of 55,9 meters, the maximum diameter of seven meters and can reach in immersion a advanced speed to the 16 knots. The crew is composed of 27 people.
Fincantieri has specified that Romeo Romei, like the twin unit Pietro Venuti delivered to Marina Militare in the July last year from the yard of Muggiano, is characterized by highly innovative technological solutions, entirely realized in non-magnetic material with the application of the most modern techniques than silenziamento for the reduction of the acoustic signature.
the Romei, so like the other submarines of the series, is equipped of a system of silent propulsion based on the technology of the fuel cells in which the electric power it is produced through the reaction of oxygen and hydrogen, therefore independently from the air, guaranteeing an autonomy in remarkablly advanced immersion to that of the conventional systems to battery. The unit has of a elettroacustico system perfectly integrated in the system of command and control and a modern system of automation of the control of the platform.
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Today in the ship yard of Muggiano (La Spezia) the navalmeccanico group Fincantieri has delivered to Marina Militare Italiana the new Romeo Romei submarine, last of a series of four twin units of the class "Todaro", type U212A, commissioned from the Direction of Naval Armaments - NAVARM for Marina.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
