Here's the missing Masestrale and Oriani classes: Maestrale as commissioned in 1934: https://i.imgur.com/SpFM6S9.png Alfredo Oriani as commissioned in 1937: https://i.imgur.com/H5VAPkn.png Also, I updated the early verison of the Navigatori since several sources depicts her in a dark grey: https://i...
Here's a more obscure Ansaldo design for a "fleet air-defense" destroyer armed with 5x120mm DP guns in stabilized single mountings similar to the earlier 90mm mounts. The hull mostly resembles previous destroyer classes, though the superstructure does not. Light AA was provided by four twin 20mm mou...
Here's a thread for Italian export cruisers, for now, only the offerings to Romania have been drawn. First up is the Ansaldo U.P.90 and U.P.90Bis design. The U.P.90 started out as an Ansaldos' take on the German Deutschland class, albeit faster and armed with dual-purpose secondary battery and small...
Would it be prudent to keep the clipper bow instead of the original raked bow? It does make sense that the Germans would rebuild the bow to better suit their needs, since their own designs did have that style of bow. Edit: Also, most sources state that the length would be 100m, which it would be if ...