Talk:Zara/@comment-25863825-20170228114132/@comment-25399466-20170301125517

@Italianfan88

The more the reason if the hits had been obtained by two different ships, but at a similar distance. It demonstrates that they were not due to a particular well built batch of ammos for example, but that +21 km was already a convenient fighting distance for the Italian 203s.

Is perfectly true that the British tended to fire more. In the battle of Cape Spada for example the two Italian light cruisers fired 500 rounds for a single hit. The single British light cruiser fired 1300 rounds for five hits. Taking in account that two of those hits were obtained vs a ship with the rudder locked in centerline position, and that the Italians had to fire their rounds on multiple targets to keep the destroyers at bay, the accuracy had been similar. The number of rounds fired made the difference.