page_title: 185th Paratroopers Artillery Regiment "Folgore"
section_title: Deployments
hierarchical_section_title: 185th Paratroopers Artillery Regiment "Folgore" / Deployments
caption_attribution_description: English: Italian Army soldiers of the 185th Paratroopers Artillery Regiment "Folgore" during the Summer Tempest exercise 2016
context_page_description: The 185th Paratroopers Artillery Regiment "Folgore is an artillery regiment of the Italian Army, specializing in airborne operations. The regiment was raised in March 1942 to support the Paratroopers of the 185th Paratroopers Division "Folgore". The division served with distinction the Western Desert Campaign and was destroyed in November 1942 during the Second Battle of El Alamein. Between 2000 and 2013 the regiment was named 185th Paratroopers Reconnaissance Target Acquisition Regiment "Folgore" and a Special Operations unit, tasked with reconnaissance and target acquisition. On 1 July 2013 the regiment was reformed as artillery unit in Bracciano and received war flag of the 185th Paratroopers Artillery Regiment "Folgore", while the 185th Paratroopers Reconnaissance Target Acquisition Regiment "Folgore" received the war flag of the 185th Paratroopers Regiment "Nembo", which had been disbanded in September 1944 after serving with the Italian Co-Belligerent Army. Today the regiment is based in Bracciano near Rome and operationally assigned to the Paratroopers Brigade "Folgore".
context_section_description: During World War II, the Regiment was deployed in El Alamein, where it fought valiantly alongside its parent formation and the "Pavia" and "Trento" Divisions.
  The activity abroad of 185th Regiment, after the World War II, began with the first overseas mission of the Italian Army in 1982: a battery participated in the mission in Lebanon.
  In 1991, as part of the Italfor Airone Mission, the Group contributes to the establishment of the Paratroopers Tactical Group sending its personnel to Iraq. The 185th Regiment was the first unit involved in the national operation "Vespri Siciliani", and immediately afterwards was sent into the operational cycles of Somalia, maintaining a mortar battery there. Then it was the turn of former Yugoslavia: the 185th Regiment was present in all the missions that involve the Parachute Brigade in Bosnia and Kosovo.
caption: Paratroopers of the 185th ready their mortar during exercise Summer Tempest 2016
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