17th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment "Sforzesca"
military unit
The 17th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment "Sforzesca" (Italian: 17° Reggimento Artiglieria Controaerei "Sforzesca") is an air defense regiment of the Italian Army. Originally an artillery regiment of the Royal Italian Army, the regiment fought on the Italian front in World War I, and was assigned in World War II to the 2nd Infantry Division "Sforzesca", with which the regiment was deployed to the Eastern Front, where division and regiment were destroyed during the Red Army's Operation Little Saturn. In 1947, the Italian Army reformed the regiment and, on 1 July 1953, the regiment was transferred from the field artillery to the anti-aircraft specialty. Today the regiment is based in Sabaudia in Lazio and assigned to the Anti-aircraft Artillery Command. The regiment's batteries are equipped with Skyguard surface-to-air missile systems respectively Stinger man-portable air-defense systems. The regiment's anniversary falls, as for all Italian Army artillery regiments, on June 15, the beginning of the Second Battle of the Piave River in 1918.
History
On 1 November 1888, the Royal Italian Army formed the 17th Field Artillery Regiment in Novara. The new regiment consisted of eight batteries and one train company ceded by the 5th Field Artillery Regiment. The ceded batteries had participated in the First, the Second, the Sardinian campaign in central and Southern Italy in 1860–61, and the Third Italian War of Independence.
In 1895–96, the regiment formed the 1st Mountain Artillery battery for the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
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