italian navy

Benedetto Brin liked big cannons for his giant ironclads. For the 3rd series of Brin design philosophy, Ruggiero di Lauria, Francesco Morosini, and Andrea Doria, they use the same caliber 431mm to the former class Italia. As for this gun, were those the same to Italia and Lepanto's? Laurias'...

Project 26, or Kirov class, were influenced by Italian cruisers. In fact, the final design took Raimondo Monteccucoli class as a reference, and cruiser Kirov's machine facilities were made in Italy (Voroshilov's were domestic). An early project in about 1933 showed a cruiser with three twin...

these guns are used on Brin's giant Italia class. Most of them are L27 so we shall talk about L27 generally. These guns' performance are shown in Warship 2000. But shooting range at maximum 15 degree, is not known. Any useful info?

Soviet cruiser Proiekt 22 is mostly known by the public as WoWs Italian tier X large cruiser Napoli. The 22000-ton cruiser with nine 250mm guns was first sketched in about 1936, by Ansaldo. On this unaccomplished plan replaced by Pr.69 Kronshtadt class several yrs later, WoWs also made Soviet...

The article on the Naval Analyses website refers to it as the Mk 10 GMLS, but some other sources call it the Mk 4, and even some as the Mk 9 mod 1. Judging from the "carrying 72 missiles" and "stored in a vertical position", it seems to be the same as the Boston-class missile cruiser, which is...

Since there aren't any large threads for FREMM already, I figured I would create one specifically to discuss the background and development of the FREMM-EVO, a pair of interim frigates ordered for the Marina Militare Italiana. Background: Before we talk about the FREMM-EVO, we should talk...

Érase una vez sólo dos bandos (y sabías qué esperar) y había un país llamado Unión Soviética. Y el portaaviones era la especie dominante en los mares (Cuanto más grande era el portaaviones, más felices eran los almirantes), pero este tipo de barcos son muy caros, tan caros que parecía que iban a...

In UK we know Lion after KGV In USA we know Montana after Iowa In French and German we know Alsace and H class In Japan we know super Yamato and a150 series And how about Italian battleship after Littorio class?

The Italian Trieste LHD has finally started its sea trials during last week, in the Gulf of La Spezia, here there are some nice photos by Italian Ares Difesa website: https://aresdifesa.it/prime-prove-in-mare-per-llhd-trieste-foto/

The Italian Navy is planning a pair of 10,000 ton Destroyers, known for the time being as DDX. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2020/11/09/italy-plans-new-destroyers-for-2028-delivery/ These would be the largest surface combatants built in Western Europe since the 40s.

This thread is effectively a relaunch of the "Fictional Never-Were" thread from Warship Projects 3.0. It covers fictional warships in novels such as: USS John F Kennedy (BCGN-???) (Joe Poyer: North Cape, 1969) First up... John Watson: The Final Act, 2000 Germany Hindenburg Bismark Class...