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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement: | 43,835 tons standard,
45,963 tons full load
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| Length: | 224.5 - 237.8 m
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| Beam: | 32.9 m
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| Draught: | 10.5 m
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| Propulsion: | 8 boilers, 4 shafts, 140,000 hp
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| Speed: | 30 knots (54 km/h)
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| Range: | 3,920 miles at 20 knots
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| Complement: | 1,920
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| Armament: | 3x3 381/50 mm,
4x3 155/55 mm,
12 90/50 mm (anti-aircraft),
20 37/50 mm,
30 20/65 mm
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| Aircraft: | 3
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| Protection: | max 350 mm (vertical)
207 mm (horizontal)
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Vittorio Veneto was the most modern battleship class of the Regia Marina, the Italian navy up World War II. It is also known as Littorio class.
Vittorio Venetos were designed by general Umberto Pugliese, and were the first battleships which overran the limits of the Washington Treaty (35,000 tons of displacement). They were the best units in the world in 1939, because of her equilibrium of firepower, protection and speed.
Vittorio Veneto class was composed by four vessels:
- Vittorio Veneto – was given to United Kingdom at the end of the war
- Littorio – sunk by torpedoes in the Battle of Taranto, was given to United States at the end of the war
- Roma – entered in service later in World War II, and was sunk by German dive bombs after Italian armistice
- Impero – never completed
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Littorio, high speed manoeuvres, summer 1940.
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Roma, 1940, with war camouflage
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