Despite its budget difficulties, the Italian defense ministry has awarded a 764 million contract for the construction of the Italian navys ninth and tenth Fremm frigates. Above is the lead Italian ship, Bergamini. (MMI photo)
I don’t know how functional that rig is, but the Italians know how to style things.
I hope they fare better than the Italian Navy did in WWII
I hope so, considering the Japanese were building warships of similar size that were going ten knots faster than that - in 1944.
ON the other hand common sense dictates that the speed of a new warship should be classified.