Among the many imperialist countries, Italy should be in the worst bracket. In terms of war, even if it is an enemy of a country like Ethiopia, it can end up with a defeat and reparations, no wonder it has been despised by other powers for so many years.
However, there is one thing to say, although Italy's war strength is stretched, their military technology is still very powerful, and the best reflection of their skills in the field of warships has to mention the battleships built by Italy during the First World War - "Count Cavour" class.
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The Count Cavour-class battleship was the successor to the Dante class and the second type of dreadnought equipped by the Italian Navy. In the eyes of many World of Warships players, this ship is definitely an anomaly - 13 305mm guns, distributed in 5 turrets, three of which are equipped with three guns, and the other two are twin layouts, which can be described as weird compared to the popular main gun configuration at the time! It is mainly due to the immaturity of the triple main gun technology in that era, which is a historical problem, which is also faithfully restored by "World of Warships".
But don't look at the Count Cavour's main gun layout, its characteristic SAP shell damage is definitely outstanding among Tier 5 ships. Anyone who knows SAP shells knows that if the shell does not ricochet when it hits the deck, it will directly break down the judgment, which makes it extremely powerful to suppress the battleship! In addition, Count Cavour's main gun is reloaded in only 33 seconds, compared to other ships with 10 guns that need more than 40 seconds to reload, which is simply not too violent!
The Count of Cavour also had two sisters, Giulio Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci. Three warships were later engaged in the battle. As for chance...... It can only be said that the fate is ill!
The first ship, the Count Cavour, was commissioned in April 1915 and was modernized from October 1933 to July 1937. However, in World War II, it was torpedoed and sunk during the Royal Navy's raid on Port Taranto, and was salvaged but eventually became an obstacle used by Germany to block the shipping lane.
The second ship, the Julio Caesar, was damaged by the British "War Weathiness" at the Battle of Cape Stillo, and was bombed by British air in Naples and detained by the Allies after the surrender of Italy. It was eventually absorbed by the Soviet Navy as war reparations, renamed "Novorossiysk", and deployed in Crimea, but in 1955 it was killed in a fatal explosion and buried at the bottom of the sea with more than 600 crew members......
The Leonardo da Vinci, the first of the three warships, exploded in August 1916 while loading ammunition and sank in the port of Taranto.
In general, the "Count Cavour" class battleships performed fairly well in World War I, but as other powers such as Britain successively introduced new battleships equipped with larger caliber guns, the "Count Cavour" class gradually weakened in comparison. By the time of World War II, although the "Count Cavour" class had undergone modernization, it was still difficult to compete with the mainstream battleships of the time, and was drowned by the torrent of history.
It is worth mentioning that after these ships were transformed, they all had an extremely alternative feature: the double-decker bow, when Count Cavour rebuilt it, he had a new bow outside the original bow, and he did not even dismantle it; Her sister Giulio Caesar was rebuilt with a new bow that was dismantled from the original and rebuilt with a double bottom of the angle of attack...... Think about how much weight this strange design adds to the boatmen!
What's even more interesting is that World of Warships seems to have even this point in place! There is an 85mm "iron head" in the bow of the Count Cavour, which can play a strong defensive capability when selling heads, it turns out that because there are two heads, no wonder it will be more "iron" than others!
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