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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'...

such guns project was in mid-1930s. said to be modified from old 10 inch guns. In Ansaldo progetto 986 for Spain, there was 203mm/55 guns mentioned. In Warship 2023? maybe, there was description that the gun was a stopped project. About its probable performance, is there any info and reference?

The secondaries of Dante Alighieri are lack of detailed data except muzzle velocity in Navweaps. The twin turrets have weird shape. Dante used both turrets and casements of one same gun, that was rare at that time. Are you will to offer clear plans and performances of them (twin turrets and...

What‘s that weapon?

Some of these biggest muzzle loading guns are kept in Gibraltar and Malta now. But at their time most of them were equipped on Italian battleships Duilio and Dandolo. Any details about the twin-mounted barbette on Duilio class battleships? And, their further development twin BL 17inch guns...

EOC 10inch guns are offered for Italian armoured cruisers in a long period. Its general performances can be find on relative websites and references. Nowadays it seems hard to know further details of such weapons , as they were only equipped for a smaller navy and that they were really antique...

The harbour/port is dredged/demined and Giulio Cesare/Novorossiysk is not sunk. What do the Soviet union do with her?

From, La Science et la vie 1946-05-01, what was this ?.

Stefano Sappino's blog has information on these battleship studies: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/regia-marinas-bb-design-p1-by-general-barberis-navy-corps-of-engineers/ In the post, he says: In his posts, he only provides information about 4 of the Group 3 designs. Does anyone...

The Navweps site on these two guns has some passing mentions that lead me to other questions: -135 mm/45 (5.3") Models 1937 and 1938: There is this statement: "A twin AA version for the Etna class cruisers and for the rebuild of the damaged battleship Conte Di Cavour were only in the...

Hello all, While browsing some old WoWS Reddit threads I found mention of a CRDA (assumedly Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, active 1930 to 1984) battleship design that was posted on the (now-defunct) WoWS forums. Apparently the known specifics are "61200 tons standard, 29 knots, 406mm belt...

As we know, Dedalo was a German merchant ship confiscated during WW1 and converted by the Spanish into a seaplane tender in 1922. Dedalo well demonstrated the utility of an aircraft capable ship by supporting the Spanish-French landings at Alhucemas during the Rif War in Morrocco in 1925. In...

https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/italy/aircraft-carrier-aquila.php?amp=1 According to the site above, there are several aircraft carrier plans planned by Regia Marina's Lieutenant General Bonfiglietti, does anyone know more about this?

Perhaps some of you still remember the article in stefsep's blog, where he mentioned a weird Italian battleship design: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/ferrettis-10381-in-quintuples-battleship-design/ I just found out the original paper, published in 1916, and maybe written in 1915...

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?

Hi, does anyone know these two aircraft ( Avis 4 Cagno & Avis 5 Serra Zanetti0,and what was Avis company ?

So what the title says. Say that cme the armistice in 1943 the Italians are able to tow away the ship to some secure port. Or alternatively if you want things simpler Italian commandos do not scuttle the ship in April 1945 and the Germans fail to sink her on their retreat. Either way you have...

I have quite a bit of information on this design but a couple sources imply that early on there was consideration of using at least one twin turret for the 135mm guns. Can anyone verify if this was true and, if so, what was the intended arrangement of the guns? Thanks, Dave G

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This concept is from my AH project "Savioe Cross". In short - in 1943, Mussolini was a bit quicker, and managed to broker peace with Allies before the Victor Emmanuel III. Italy managed to came out of Axis more orderly, and successfully repel (with Allied help, of course), German invasion. But...