The closing counterfactual pauses to show how treaty accounting shaped Italy's stated force. Leonardo da Vinci still appeared in the Washington calculations, while the Regia Marina sought an official 175,000-ton allowance. To support its total, Italy also counted four roughly 12,600-ton pre-dreadnoughts and the 19,500-ton Dante Alighieri. The mixture shows that headline tonnage could include ships of very different combat value, which matters when comparing treaty parity with usable modern strength.
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How Italy assembled its Washington treaty tonnage claim
Italy counted old pre-dreadnoughts and Dante Alighieri alongside its modern ships while arguing for a 175,000-ton capital-ship allowance.