{"id":38290,"date":"2026-03-30T19:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adriaports.com\/uncategorized\/italian-navy-tb3-drones-on-cavour-with-leonardo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:57:01","slug":"italian-navy-tb3-drones-on-cavour-with-leonardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adriaports.com\/en\/shipping-en\/italian-navy-tb3-drones-on-cavour-with-leonardo\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Navy, TB3 drones on Cavour with Leonardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRIESTE &#8211;<\/strong> The Italian Navy is aiming to introduce <strong>TB3 drones on board the aircraft carrier Cavour<\/strong>, strengthening its embarked air capabilities. The news was reported by the <strong>Naval News website<\/strong> and stems from statements by the <strong>Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Enrico Berutti Bergotto, during a Senate hearing on 25 March<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A key point concerns Leonardo\u2019s role<\/strong>. The Bayraktar TB3 system, developed by <strong>Turkey\u2019s Baykar, will in fact be acquired through the Italian group thanks to an industrial agreement between the two companies.<\/strong> The cooperation is also taking shape through the joint venture LBA Systems, created to facilitate technological integration and access to European markets. The TB3 is a short take-off drone designed to operate from naval units such as the aircraft carrier Cavour. Compared with the earlier TB2, it introduces changes for maritime use: folding wings, reinforced landing gear and systems adapted to the naval environment.<\/p>\n<p>With this move, <strong>Italy is on course to become the first European operator of the TB3. The system is intended for surveillance, reconnaissance and light attack missions<\/strong>, with the ability to deploy guided munitions. Integration on board Cavour marks a further evolution of the Navy\u2019s air component, which already operates short take-off and vertical landing F-35B fighters. The introduction of fixed-wing drones extends the operational range and makes it possible to pair crewed assets with unmanned platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The programme fits into a <strong>broader framework for the development of unmanned systems. The Navy already uses ScanEagle UAVs on FREMM frigates<\/strong> and has also recently acquired vertical take-off systems with offensive capabilities, able to release loitering munitions. No timeline or acquisition numbers have been indicated, but the direction is clear: to build a more flexible embarked air component, based on integration between crewed aircraft and drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIESTE &#8211; The Italian Navy is aiming to introduce TB3 drones on board the aircraft carrier Cavour, strengthening its embarked air capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shipping-en","category-italy","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Italian Navy, TB3 drones on Cavour with Leonardo - AdriaPorts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Agreement with Turkey\u2019s Baykar at the centre of the programme: acquisition and integration of UCAV systems for advanced naval operations\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adriaports.com\/en\/shipping-en\/italian-navy-tb3-drones-on-cavour-with-leonardo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian Navy, TB3 drones on Cavour with Leonardo - 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