'Littorio' class Battelship in harbour, circa 1941

Opening scene from wartime movie 'La nave bianca' directed by Roberto Rossellini, released in 1942. An unidentified battleship of 'Littorio' class is portraied along with other Regia Marina units in harbour.

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• WWII
• Regia
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• Corazzata
• Littorio
• Battleship
• Fascism
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• Rossellini
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• Fleet
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• Benito
• Mussolini

[hoplite1766]

Alright, I have changed my attitude the last few weeks. It seems our nations are under threat from immigration from Muslim countries, we need to Unite and stop this. I congratulate Italy's govt on the recent new laws it has passed on immigration and illegals crossing from N Africa. Although this is not the forum for this topic, I will say...Forza Italia! Europe for Europeans!

[hoplite1766]

Thanks KnightOfChrist1, good to see many English are anti EU. And we must give support to our Italian brothers in this respect. End immigration from 3rd world and Muslim countries!

[XElTuertoX]

Viva il Duce!!

[clama79]

it is sad, the the italian navy was too afraid to fight. They had such good ships.

[Bigfoot1955]

Interesting about the charge variation. That makes a shambles out of any attempt at long range accuracy. Look into any article on snipers and everything must be known, accurate, and consistant in order for long range shots to get where you want them to go.

[GrandeurFrancaise]

UK PARLIAMENT SAID THAT BRITISH TODAY ARE IN SO BAD ECONOMICAL CONDICTIONS THAT HAVE NO MORE MONEY TO BUY BOMBS FOR THE LIBIAN WAR.

[HAL9000Intelligence]

@maxpiemont By the way, Thanks for the info., I did not know that information until you posted the reply. Yea, it's those little details that can be a big problem and sometimes a disaster like the tragedy that happened to the 16" gun crew of Turret No. 2 on the U.S.S. Iowa.

[HAL9000Intelligence]

@maxpiemont Apparently the British Royal Navy was very Lucky for the indefinite weight of the Italian 15.1" charges and 12.6" charges that was just variable enough to misdirect the Italian Vittorio Veneto battleship 15.1" long range gunnery fire control to be too erratic to the frustration of the Italians and to the Luck of the British as what may have happened to the Italian Battleship Vittorio Veneto at the Battle Of Cape Matapan.

[maxpiemont]

@HAL9000Intelligence . Agree with your explanation. But the real , demonstrated reason because the Italian battleships never scored a hit is not related to the aiming method. The real , vulgar reason is that the launching charges had a weigh variation of 10%.this problem was well known in the Navy but never fixed. This fact is still debated in Italy.

[HAL9000Intelligence]

@maxpiemont To defend Littorio Class:The 15.1" heavy naval guns never scoring a hit is debatable but then the Italian 15.1" guns were out ranging all other navies' main heavy naval guns including the Yamato Class and the standard extreme long range gunnery fire control method was to shoot the shells in a bracket formation where the target is predicted/estimated to be based on the target's calculated course and speed during the shell's trajectories to the future target. Trigonometry Can Kill!

[guasc0]

@hoplite1766

I agree, you're right bro.

Forza Italia, Rule Britannia and Vive la France and Germany, Spain and so on Europe!!