41st IMINT Regiment "Cordenons"

The division and regiment were located in Macedonia when the Armistice of Cassibile was announced on 8 September 1943.

In 1976 the regiment was disbanded and its flag and traditions were assigned to the 41st Artillery Specialists Group "Cordenons", which was the 5th Army Corps' target acquisition unit.

In 2004 the regiment was assigned to the RISTA-EW Brigade and reorganized a battlefield surveillance unit.

[4] During the war the regiment served on the Italian front, where it fought in summer 1915 on Cima Vezzena [it; lld].

In November 1916 the regiment participated in the Ninth Battle of the Isonzo on the Pečinka and at Lokvica.

For the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo in May 1917 the regiment was arrayed at Dosso Faiti [it; lld; sl] and Kostanjevica.

The regiment retreated with the army after the defeat in the Battle of Caporetto to the Tagliamento river and fought a delaying action at Madrisio before falling back to the Piave, where the regiment fought in the First Battle of the Piave River at Ponte della Priula.

11 field guns to the 35th Artillery Regiment "Friuli", which in turn transferred its III Group with 75/13 mod.

[1][4][6][7] Following the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943 the division and its regiments attempted to retreat from Macedonia to Albania and from there over the Adriatic Sea to Southern Italy.

15 mountain guns fought with the partisans against the Germans until the surviving personnel of the division was repatriated on 26 May 1945.

The regiment consisted of a command, a command unit, the I and II groups with QF 17-pounder anti-tank guns, one of which was ceded by the 184th Field Artillery Regiment, and the III and IV groups with QF 6-pounder anti-tank guns.

The two groups, which were support units of the V Army Corps and based in Rovigo, were equipped with Brandt AM-50 120 mm mortars.

On 16 January 1975 the regiment's III Group with M59 155 mm field guns was placed in reserve status.

The group had been formed on 1 June 1956 in Conegliano as the V Army Corps Artillery Specialists Unit.

[4][5] On 12 November 1976 the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone confirmed with decree 846 the assignation of the flag and traditions of the 41st Artillery Regiment "Firenze" to the group.

On 31 March 1993 the 5th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment was disbanded and the group became once more an autonomous unit.

[10] In 1996 the group was assigned to the Informations and Electronic Defense Center, which over the years evolved to become the Tactical Intelligence Brigade.

On 18 September 2001 the group lost its autonomy and the next day entered the 41st Field Artillery Regiment "Cordenons".

[1][4][5] As of 2023 the 41st IMINT Regiment "Cordenons" is organized as follows:[11] The regiment is equipped with RQ-7 Shadow 200, RQ-11B Raven and Bramor C4EYE unmanned aerial vehicles, IA-3 Colibrì unmanned quadcopters, Thales SQUIRE ground surveillance radars.

41st "Cordenons" operator launching a RQ-11B Raven in the Dolomites with a Squire radar in the background