Leonardo: A NATO combined operation

摘要

NATO's SACLANT Under-sea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN), La Spezia, Italy, conducts research in support of NATO's undersea operational requirements. It operates the only ship jointly owned by all the NATO nations, the purpose built acoustically silent, N.R.V. Alliance. It has been in continuous and productive service since its delivery in 1988 by the builders. Since the end of the cold war, a shift of emphasis into the shallower littoral waters has caused a significant increase in the use of SACLANT-CEN's existing leased shallow water research work boat Manning in increasingly complex and sophisticated experiments at sea.