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The four latter designs are discussed later in the threat. Specifically, this post:


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As for the first one - the values of the P1 study are on the card shown in the image, but there is a clearer version of this sketched by John Jordan for Michele Costentino's article "The Italian Navy and the Battleship in the 1930s: Theory and Practice" in Warship 2023.


The design is from a study conducted by General (Genio Navale) Luigi Barberis from December 1931 to January 1932 on battleships of moderate displacement, both in reaction to the French decision to build Dunkerque and in anticipation of the upcoming Geneva disarmament conference (February 1932).


These were not so much intended to provide specific designs the Regia Marina would want to build, but rather to evaluate what kind of capabilities might be viable on large cruisers or fast battleships with full load displacements ranging as low as 14,000 tons and as high as 30,000 tons.


Card P1, in the image shared earlier, appears as follows:


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The ultimate conclusions of the study were that, should Britain succeed in if its effort to press the limits of battleship designs down to 25,000 tons, this would be advantageous for Italy (allowing it to acquire the desired number of capital ships without the risk of superior modern ships from other navies being built), but also that 25,000 tons was really the minimum standard displacement one could build a viable battleship on, and displacement limits should go no lower than this.


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