Italian destroyer Impavido (D 570)

Impavido (D 570) is the lead ship of the Impavido-class destroyer of the Italian Navy.

The vessels were commissioned in the early 1960s and were roughly equal to the American Charles F. Adams-class destroyer.

They had two fire control radars to guide their weaponry and all this was fitted in the aft of the ship.

Both classes also had two single 127 mm (5 in) guns, but the American ships had these in single mountings and in a new model, the Mk 42, one fore and the other aft, while the Impavido-class made use of an older Mk 38 dual turret.

[3] She is laid down on 10 June 1957 and launched on 25 May 1962 by Cantiere navale di Riva Trigoso.