4th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment "Peschiera"
The 4th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment "Peschiera" is an air defence regiment of the Italian Army. Originally an air defence regiment of the Royal Italian Army, the regiment is now based in Mantua in Lombardy and assigned to the Anti-aircraft Artillery Command. During the Cold War, the regiment was equipped with MIM-23 Hawk air defence missile systems and formed, together with the 5th Anti-aircraft Missiles Artillery Regiment, the air defence belt of the Italian Army in the country's Northeast. The regimental anniversary falls, as for all Italian Army artillery regiments, on June 15, the beginning of the Second Battle of the Piave River in 1918.
SAMP/T missiles being loaded onto the launcher
Lancia 3Ro truck with 90/53 anti-aircraft gun
132nd Field Artillery Regiment "Ariete"
The 132nd Field Artillery Regiment "Ariete" is a field artillery regiment of the Italian Army, specializing in armored combat. Originally an armored artillery regiment of the Royal Italian Army, the regiment was assigned during World War II to the 132nd Armored Division "Ariete", with which it fought in the Western Desert campaign until the division and regiment were destroyed in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
Destroyed 90/53 anti-aircraft gun of the 132nd Field Artillery Regiment "Ariete" after the First Battle of El Alamein
132nd Field Artillery Regiment "Ariete" ARTHUR radar during an exercise in 2020