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4th September 2007 | 05:10

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GreenKnight121

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From: by the Great Salt Lake, USA

"Italy it seems might be getting rid of the Garibaldi"

Actually, Cavour is replacing Vittorio Veneto... a helicopter-carrying ASW cruiser of "the old school"... aft flight deck with below-decks hangar for 9-A/B-212s (twin-engined long-fuselage UH-1s).

http://members.aol.com/mircogr/ihelos.html

This one has pictures:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmor...elicopter.html

http://homepage.eircom.net/~steven/crustmov.htm

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