Italian Navy Frigate Luigi Rizzo Participated in Exercise Obangame Express 2021
ITS RIZZO will be deployed within Operation GABINIA until next June, for the protection of national and international interests, and fight against piracy and illegal trafficking. Luigi Rizzo (F 595) is a Carlo Bergamini-class frigate of the Italian Navy which were developed from the FREMM multipurpose frigate program. On 9 December 2015, the launching ceremony of the ship took place at the Fincantieri yard in Riva Trigoso. Luigi Rizzo was commissioned on 20 April 2017. On 5 March 2021, Luigi Rizzo sailed alongside USS Dwight D. Eisenhower while transiting the Strait of Gibraltar.