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Italy, economically dependent on importing and exporting goods, energy resources and raw materials by sea, has one of the most technologically advanced navies in the world, thanks to targeted investments and high-level national industrial capabilities.The Italian Navy is a balanced force, composed like all most modern navies of a multitude of often very different systems: not only ships and submarines, but also helicopters, aircraft, and land-based assets. Technological progress in recent decades has also led to the entry into service of remotely piloted aerial and underwater craft, which, along with surface craft, are destined to play an increasingly important role in the naval domain.
To date, thanks to the state-of-the-art Cavour aircraft carrier and the investment on the short takeoff and vertical landing F-35B, Italy is one of only three countries in the world (and the only one in the European Union) capable of operating fifth-generation combat aircraft from an aircraft carrier - besides the United States and Britain.
The Navy aims not only to modernize capabilities, but also to achieve a high level of integration between even very different combat platforms and systems (e.g., ships, submarines, helicopters, and remotely piloted vehicles) in a multi-domain and system-of-systems perspective. Among the Navy's main goals for the coming years, outlined in Future Combat Naval System 2035 (FCNS 2035), is also to strengthen the armed force's ability to adapt more dynamically to technological innovation, which is already accelerating rapidly.
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