Talk:Pugliese Underwater Protection Bulkhead/@comment-26135416-20150429145209/@comment-24093250-20150430082640

That happens even to the best, I think.

Anyway, against the conventional attacks the system did help to limit the damage to the structure; let's not forget that flooding also implicates the security service and the water-tightness of the compartments (and that also gave a big help to the Brits at Taranto), and that in all the other times the Littorio-class ships were torpedoed, they always managed to get back to port (despite most of these shots being in the areas where the system was finer and therefore from the start much less effective).