23.06.1997 Kiel week

The Audace class destroyers were two guided missile destroyers built for the Italian Navy during the Cold War. An improvement of the Impavido class, these ships were designed for area air defence and also had a heavy gun armament. They were fitted with contemporary American radars and sonars, but also they were fitting, just as the next Italian ships, they fitted all the new weapons made by Italian industry of the time, such torpedoes, helicopters and guns. Also some indigenous radars were fitted.

Name: Audace
Pennant number:D 551
Builder:CNR of Riva Trigoso
Laid up: 17 April 1968
Launched: 2 October 1971
Commissioned: 16 November 1972
Status: Decommissioned 28 September 2006