Talk:Pugliese Underwater Protection Bulkhead/@comment-26135416-20150429145209/@comment-25399466-20160517091453

Really, what happened in every encounter of the Littorio class battleships with torpedoes, is that the Pugliese System worked slightly better that what could be expected by a conventional multy-layer bulkhead (see the effects of the same 533mm torpedo on the Vitorio Veneto and the Scharnorst, the effects of a single aerial torpedo on the Nelson, or even that of the firsts aerial torpedoes on the Yamato and Musashi). Not by chance, after having tested the two system in real scale, the Soviets chose the Pugliese for the Sovetsky Soyuz class battleships, the last andthe biggest to have been laid down in Europe.

Probably the multy layer bulkheads could have been improved to match and even surpass the performances of the Pugliese, but, all in all, the Pugliese System provided adequate protection in WWII.