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During the Sage invasion of Earth 20 years ago, Vittorio Veneto ended up with her superstructure all but demolished when the pan-European naval battle group she was a part of was overwhelmed by a large swarm of suicide drones. Barely surviving the ensuing retreat, she was then rebuilt with an AEGIS combat system into a command ship for fleet air defense operations, allowing effective coordination of firepower deployed from less-sophisticated wartime-expedient guided missile frigates that such a command ship would spend the rest of the war leading.
Soon after the war, she, along with many other refurbished surplus warships from the national militaries across the Homeworld, were transferred to the then-nascent Taskforce Frontier Nations, becoming part of the Frontier Navy's first-generation capital ships lineup. As sufficient number of new-construction AEGIS warships begin filling the ranks within the Frontier Navy, those first-generation warships still in service and not yet transferred to Foreign Auxiliary are concentrated within the 7th Fleet. Although no longer quite the go-to ship to lead expeditionary strike groups nowadays, she is active in testing and developing new technologies and new techniques, including the New Threat Upgrade Mk.II programme that involves full-spec. Cooperative Engagement Capability and CEAMOUNT active electronically-scanned array illuminator.
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As part of global emergency naval construction programme during the Sage invasion of Earth 20 years ago, two more Luigi Durand De La Penne class destroyers were ordered. Both were transferred to the Frontier Navy after the war and ended up, in addition to the New Threat Upgrade Mk.II trial, involved in the evaluation of Sampson radar.
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Spruance class destroyers that survived the Sage invasion were transferred to the Frontier Navy upon the latter's establishment. They received a limited upgrade during the war to allow for the use of SM-2MR missiles, and during Frontier Navy service certain aging electronics were replaced with more-available items from Europe.
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Built and acquired in a similar manner as the Luigi Durand De La Penne class destroyers; different from the first batch in the use of European- and American-made sensors and weapons adopted out of concerns over production constraints but ending up offering some degree of maintenance commonality with other Frontier Navy warships when they were declared surplus and transferred.
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The design of the Maestrale class frigate was altered to provide a general-purpose wartime expedient, not much unlike the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, to equip the global naval efforts against the Sages in the war 20 years ago. Many surviving examples ended up in the Frontier Navy's inventory.
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