Communications, tactical information, and command-and-control capacity were central to the class's fleet role. The destroyer carried only one fewer tactical-information console than the carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi. This made it a credible flagship and coordinating platform. If the carrier became unavailable, Durand de la Penne could assume control of the formation. That second command node gave the fleet resilience that weapons and sensors alone could not provide.
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A destroyer equipped to take command of the task group
An unusually extensive communications and information fit made the destroyer a flagship-capable second command node behind Giuseppe Garibaldi.