The 5th Field Artillery Regiment "Superga" is a field artillery regiment of the Italian Army. The regiment is the army's only multiple rocket launcher unit and equipped with M270A1 MLRS-I launchers. The regiment is based in Portogruaro in Veneto and assigned to the Artillery Command. The regiment is the Italian Army's senior artillery regiment and was formed in 1850 by the Royal Sardinian Army. In 1855-56 the regiment deployed six batteries to Crimea for the Crimean War and in 1859 it fought in the Second Italian War of Independence. In the 1860 it participated in the Piedmontese invasion of Central and Southern Italy. In 1861 the regiment joined the Royal Italian Army and in 1866 it fought in the Third Italian War of Independence. During World War I the regiment served on the Italian front. In 1935 the regiment was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division "Superga", which in 1940 participated in the invasion of France. In fall 1942 the division was transferred to Tunisia for the Tunisian campaign. The division and its regiments surrendered there to the British forces on 12 May 1943.

The V Army Corps was one of three corps the Italian Army fielded during the Cold War. Based in the regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia-Giulia the corps was the army's main combat force. The 5th Army Corps was arrayed close to the Yugoslavian border and tasked with meeting any Warsaw Pact forces that crossed the border. On the left flank of the corps the 4th Alpine Army Corps was tasked with blocking the Alpine passes and in the rear of the corps the 3rd Army Corps served as operational reserve. After the end of the Cold War the corps was reduced in size and on 1 October 1997 it became the 1st Defence Forces Command. In 2013 the COMFOD 1° was disbanded and its function and brigades taken over by the 20th Infantry Division Friuli in Florence.