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The Vittorio Veneto-class battleships were the pinnacle of their ship type in Italy. They were notable for their decent armor protection and for being fast, but the main battery guns they carried were not especially accurate. This shortcoming was to be addressed in the future. | World of Warships

Since the early 1920s, the Regia Marina—the Royal Italian Navy—was involved in a significant fleet modernization program spurred on by its perceived rivalry with the French Navy and British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. Though older dreadnoughts were reconstructed where possible, a wealth of new battleship designs were put forward by Italian shipbuilders. One of these projects was a design for a medium-displacement battleship with a top speed of more than 30 knots and eight 320 mm guns housed