DEFENCE
ATR 72MP: Effective and affordable force multiplier Leonardo’s ATR 72MP aircraft, also ordered by the Turkish Navy, is already in service with the Italian Air Force and with the Italian Customs Police. It is the ideal platform for maritime patrol, providing outstanding capabilities in Surveillance / Reconnaissance, Exclusive Economic Zone Patrol and Search And Rescue tasks. Its features allow operators to perfom missions such as counter drug trafficking, piracy, smuggling and preventing any illegal action across territorial waters, missions which can typically last more than eight hours. On November 2019 the first two out of four ATR 72MP (designated P-72B) ordered by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Customs Police) have been handed over during an official
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