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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 1st, 2012, 4:38 pm
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Indeed, submarines of the era was in the same spot that torpedoboats where in at the turn of the century.
Mature enough to be used as weapons, but tactics and doctrine were largely speculative.
Plus subs still spent a lot of time on the surface, and shells were a lot cheaper than torpedoes (still are for that matter).

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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 1st, 2012, 4:45 pm
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TimothyC wrote:
Thiel wrote:
Indeed, submarines of the era was in the same spot that torpedoboats where in at the turn of the century.
Mature enough to be used as weapons, but tactics and doctrine were largely speculative.
Plus subs still spent a lot of time on the surface, and shells were a lot cheaper than torpedoes (still are for that matter).
I'll submit soon other projects that confirm it

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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 1st, 2012, 7:09 pm
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Are those proper turrets or fixed in traverse?
That is one wacky scheme, underwater speed would have been slow, and how do you protect against leaks around the turret base?

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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 2nd, 2012, 6:33 am
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Are real tuttets with 270 deg rotation. The drawings (the section) do not explain much about the sealing of the turrets.

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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 2nd, 2012, 6:55 am
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Perhaps they were wet-mounts like on that British submarine they turned into a carrier.

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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 2nd, 2012, 7:16 am
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One of these ideas that perhaps look good on paper, but only on paper.
Great drawing! :)
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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 2nd, 2012, 3:06 pm
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TimothyC wrote:
Plus subs still spent a lot of time on the surface, and shells were a lot cheaper than torpedoes (still are for that matter).
That's much more true today than it is back then - a single Mk.48 ADCAP basically costs the same as a single BGM-109 Tomahawk. I believe a single 5-54 shell is only in the five figure range at best.
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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 2nd, 2012, 3:52 pm
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Great ship , shame on italy that it was neverbuild!

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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 5th, 2012, 3:29 pm
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here is the project B3 made by Bernardis in 1922: it is a preliminary project for a "large" submarine of about 2.700-3200 ton.
It was armed with two twin tuttets for 152/50, 4 torpedo tube in the hull (as usual) plus other 2 twin external torpedo tubes (adjustable).
No info about the turrets: probably sealed as the X1 but it is not evident the solution.
Anyhow the hull shows the wish for a fast unit...

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Post subject: Re: Italian projects for Submarine gunships and cruisersPosted: May 5th, 2012, 3:42 pm
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