A completed Italian class could encourage a race toward 30- or 31-knot battleships rather than leave fast capital ships as exceptional types. The aim would be to increase speed while retaining the protection and firepower expected of a battle-line ship. Caracciolo offers a credible early benchmark around which British and other responses might form. This is one possible path in the absence of immediate treaty restraint rather than an automatic outcome. The segment isolates the competitive mechanism before the video turns to whether national industries could build the resulting ships.
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Could treaty navies race for fast battleships?
The Caracciolos suggest an alternative interwar competition in which navies retain battleship capability while pushing fleet speed toward 30 knots.