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what is that thing in the middle of the bridge?

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Funky, but I doubt they'd go through all the trouble of remodelling the superstructure so drastically when a cheaper and more easily built slab-sided one will do just as well.
Since this is obviously a post WWII refit, I'd remove all the 20 and 40mm guns.
Personally I'd remove the raised 6"(?) as well and fit something like the American 3"/70 instead.
Oh and get rid of the Carley floats. It's the 1960ies and self-inflating life-rafts are all the rage.

Oh and you're not going to push it up to 48kts, not even at Italian trial conditions. 32ish cruising speed? Sure, but it's not going to have much speed in reserve.

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noted.

That's an open bridge - most armored warships have two bridges, one in an armored citadel and an open bridge, sometimes completely exposed to the weather and almost always with at least an open top or very light structure (as the case is here) since the armored citadel was usually considered too restrictive to be a useful command center during normal operations and especially when leading fleet operations. This is why a number of things happened - why flagships started getting separate command levels, why admirals would be in the open bridge even during fleet actions and why they stopped putting in armored bridges alltogether (of course with postwar armor schemes it become a moot point regardless). It also looks like the armor bridge has been rebuilt too, a common practice with between-wars ships to try to make them more hospitable.

That said there's a lot about this ship that doesn't make sense, especially after most of the year spent drawing fine ships. You could get away with the bridge features stolen from a cruise liner but the black structures off to the side don't make sense and at this point and age even with a complete rebuild I feel it better justified to build a dedicated missile escort separately.

A giant toaster? But seriously, as always, a most intriguing design, and the other comments apart, I'd question having the aft sam launcher so close to such a large calibre gun mount - as it could play havoc with its more intricate parts when the guns are fired

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That bridge wouldn't look out off place on a 1950's merchant ship, but a battle-cruiser?
Also the directors on the bridge (those that look a lot like the USN Mk.37 GFC directors)have no radar while those sided at the after-end of the bridge structure (thos that look like USN Mk.53 GFC directors) have radar.
...and I still don't understan what that thing, that looks like a "giant toaster", is?

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