The Littorio’s design work was largely done under the jurisdiction of the WNT, which limited battleship design to 35000 tons standard displacement with an armament not exceeding 406mm. The ultimate evolution of the Italian battleship, ‘BB1936’, often known as UP.41 (Ufficiale Progetto 41 by Ansaldo’s nomenclature), this wasn’t so much an evolution past Littorio so much as it was the original idea. Most of the ship lines are somewhat feasible besides for some details but that seems to have really gone out of the window with the Italians. I don't know if any navy considered putting that many 8" guns on a cruiser, at that point a larger caliber is easily the better choice. Maybe the T9 is excusable if that "10 or less" rule is not true, but 15 8" guns? That just seems crazy to me. The Italian T10 cruiser doesn't seem to make any sense to me either. That would explain why their light cruisers never went beyond 10 6" guns but is there any truth to that claim? This forum used to have a handful of armchair experts (no offense intended by that label) on the Regia Marina and their priorities when it came to warship design, I'm hoping a few of them might chime in here.ĭo the T9 and T10 Italian BBs make any sense? Did the Regia Marina ever work on designs for quadruple turrets for large caliber naval artillery like the quad 15" guns both the T9 and T10 have in game? I've heard the claim that that starting in the 1930s the Italians didn't consider it efficient to have more than 10 main battery guns on a warships due to the challenges in spotting for that many guns.
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