The Battle of Calabria includes a long-range battleship exchange fought at roughly 24,000 metres. Italian doctrine allowed only one battleship to engage a given target at a time. The rule grew from lessons attributed to Jutland: overlapping shell splashes could confuse observers about which fall of shot belonged to their own ship. Fire-control limits therefore shaped how the Italians concentrated battleship fire even when several capital ships were present.
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Calabria shows Italy's one-ship, one-target gunnery rule
Italian doctrine assigns only one battleship to each target so observers can distinguish its shell splashes and correct fire accurately.