Back in june italy was pondering about the possibility of developing a nuclear carrier. Back then it was still considered too ambitious of a an endeavour and quite hefty on the navy budget, but with the current increase in tensions between europe and the usa i believe it will be accomplished. Now, what i wonder is: will the nuclear rearmament of italy influence other nations as well?https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2025/italy-evaluates-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier-under-long-term-naval-modernization-strategy
Unless we re gonna need to bomb india i dont see the benefit of a nuclear carrier as an italian.
>>64751580The Italian Navy is working alongside Fincantieri, Ansaldo Nucleare and the University of Genoa on the so called "Progetto Minerva", which is aimed at the evaluation of the use of small nuclear reactors on navy ships, as well as the creation of a military nuclear supply chain in Italy. In theory such reactors should be small enough to be mounted easily not only on carriers, but also submarines and frigates. The project started only two years ago, and obviously this king of stuff takes a long time, but it's a good start.
>>64751581the unified European Navy is going to need at least half a dozen nuclear supercarriers to deter American aggression and only Italy and France are qualified to build them at all unless the UK rejoins
>>64751580>nuclear rearmamentYou never had any nukes.
>>64751580It might in Europe. I was thinking about nuclear powered navy ships recently as well. They have a lot of advantages regarding speed and endurance, can produce lots of power for various energy weapons, radars and sensors and are even the "green" option (radioactive waste aside). The main downside is it would be a bit expensive, though probably quite a bit less so if you had quite a few of them, economies of scale and all that.
>>64752866I would contend that Nuclear vs Conventional power is less important than being CATOBAR
>>64751580Daily reminder that in the 50s Italy had already started developing its own nuclear submarines as well as their own missiles and nuclear deterrent, before the US told them to step down and forced them to sign the non-proliferation treaty...https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_Marconi_(sottomarino)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_(rocket)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Giuseppe_Garibaldi_(1936)
a nuclear powered blue fleet that can project power over far distances is the one advantage america has over europe. so far none of the eu members seem interested in creating at least a joint nuclear fleet in case of an emergency, and the only countries having nuclear vessels at all is france and the uk, and they get away with it by virtue of having glorified sand humps they call islands scattered all over the sea to defend. italy is quite known for being the cheapskate military that optimizes everything, and a nuclear program is usually the big spender in a military budget, so to justify such a huge undertake italy needs to be really riled up, like active war or something.
So how many F-35B will Italy buy?
>>64752976They should use Rafales to avoid the killswitch
