Friedrich

Er..No

The Littorio class were the most modern of Italy's battleships, but still showed several weaknesses in design, like seperate AA and secondary armament. The Cavours and Dorias were contemporaries, although inferior ones, of the Queen Elizabeth class, the most famous being Cunninghams flagship, Warspite.

The Italians showed little aggression or co-ordination and their gunnery was uniformly terrible. Outside of their excellent Human Torpedo operation at Alexandria they showed little initiative.

The success of the RN in the Med' is summed up by Cunningham. "It takes 3 years to build a ship, it takes 300 years to build a tradition". The high levels of aggression meant that in all operations the Royal Navy expected to win. Apart from the Japanese, all it's opponents expected the RN to win as well. Psychologically the British won every naval engagement without firing a shot.

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