Talk:Zara/@comment-24093250-20160215090101/@comment-1637496-20160215124629

To be fair Regia Marina was not expected to take the Royal Navy until the Abyssinian crisis of 1935, up to that point France was the hypothetical adversary and the two navies tended to mirror a lot each the other, France similarly lacked radar, efficient sonar sets, etc. at the outbreak of the war.