Talk:Zara/@comment-24093250-20160215090101

Radar was not the cause of all the troubles, it was only a part of the problem for these ships at night...

The issue was that, because of several reasons, the Regia Marina turned up ignoring night fighting between the interwar, so no major ship (above destroyer level) was expected to fight at night: no training, no equipment (flashless powder, adequate star shells, etc.), no nothing. This despite the fact that they perfectly knew that the Royal Navy (after the Jutland night embarassment) was training and developing equipment for it.

The lack of radar was because of this stance, and because of a certain conservatism amongst the top brass, despite the fact that someone was already trying to develop one (a prof. Ugo Tiberio). But only after Matapan he was given the appropriate funding and resources, so he could come up with the first Italian radar set, the EC.3ter "Gufo".