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Old 11-14-2010, 02:34 PM
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Beautiful ships.

Like most surface combatants designed before the outbreak of WW2, however, they are totally insufficient in anti aircraft capability. You can see the attempts to add AAA in the later refits. Still not enough however.

Che bella macchnina.
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