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u/Timmyc62 · 12 pointsr/WarshipPorn

Well, remember Italy was also the home of Giulio Douhet, probably the most famous aerial strategist from the interwar period. There's no lack of appreciation by some strategists and Mussolini of the potency of airpower - whether that gets implemented at the procurement and air force organization levels is a different story. Same goes for the naval requirements branch. It's all too easy to assume one aspect of a country applies to every part of it, and we need to be careful about making such generalizations. I wish I had Bagnasco and de Toro's book on the Littorio class at hand - I suspect it would provide some more definitive answers regarding these unique windows.

u/pUREsTORM · 9 pointsr/WorldOfWarships

Glorious.

If she's as fun to play as the Cesare, this will be well worth the purchase. It'd be fantastic if she gets released in time for the Christmas holidays.

It will go along nicely with a book I recently ordered.

u/KorvusJunode · 6 pointsr/WorldOfWarships

Yay people clapping each other on the back because they all know how bad the Italians are, woohoo!

Re: TDS. Read Bagnasco's book for a more thorough explanation, excellent book cheap price. Just a link to hard copy to look at, electronic version is on google play and other formats.

https://www.amazon.com/Littorio-Class-Largest-Battleships-1937-1948/dp/1591144450

Pretty much every prewar TDS was not as good as imagined. For some odd reason the Italians are singled out although if you look at the system in war time usage it did about as well as everyone else. Aka not as well as the designers imagined. I won't go into arguments, the book above gives several examples. Basically as with every other ship that had to work up during the war hard lessons where learned and things became better over time.

The Brits, per Brown, underestimated wartime torpedo payloads and even wargamed battleships taking multiple hits without severe degradation to the fighting capability of their battleships.

For an incompetent navy the Italians still managed to keep the sea lanes open, cause the British to cancel operations, halt other operations to run operations in the Med, go to long lengths to plan convoy missions, etc.

https://www.usni.org/store/world-war-ii/struggle-middle-sea

Don't believe me just read the book by an American author.