The emphasis on speed and manoeuvrability suggests that Adriatic experience continued to shape Italian destroyer design. Confined water required rapid manoeuvres within very little space. Mediterranean combat still involved close fighting, but its greater space allowed more time and range for gunnery. The Atlantic and Pacific provided a further comparison, with more room to manoeuvre and fight at longer ranges. In this interpretation, Italian designs of the 1920s and 1930s retained compromises suited to the tighter Adriatic setting even as the expected theatre demanded more firepower.
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Adriatic experience and Mediterranean destroyer doctrine
Hull and armament choices suggest that Adriatic combat experience continued to shape Italian expectations for Mediterranean destroyer fighting.