Ardente and Ardito occupy a disputed class boundary. They may be counted as members of the Indomito class or as a separate Ardito class. The surrounding discussion follows changes in machinery intended to obtain more power while retaining a broadly similar design. Roughly ten vessels are treated as a related design family, without resolving every class boundary. That continuity provided the basis for the next class ordered before the war.
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Ardente, Ardito, and the Indomito class boundary
Ardente and Ardito can be grouped with the Indomitos or treated as a separate class, despite their close design relationship.