One of the pioneers of the helicopter carrier, the former Italian flagship Vittorio Veneto 60

Vittorio Veneto is an Italian helicopter cruiser that inherits and inherits the name of the Vittorio Veneto battleship with a full load displacement of 45,000 tons in World War II. There are also several translations of the name, Vittorio-Veneto/Vittorio-Veneto/Vittorio Venando, which is actually built for anti-submarine purposes, similar to the relatively small Andrea Doria class helicopter cruiser.

Its hull number C550, once one of the few guided-missile cruisers in the world, was launched in 1969 and commissioned in the same year, and remained the flagship of the Italian Navy until 1985, when giuseppe Garibaldi entered service, with a standard displacement of 7500 tons and a full load displacement of 8850 tons. The giant gun was changed to a time of missileization, it was definitely a big hunk, the main weapons: the Hound Dog air defense system could also be used to launch anti-submarine rockets, 8 76/62 mm Otto-Merala dual-purpose guns, 2XMk-324 mm torpedo launchers, up to nine light helicopters, Agusta Bell AB-204 or later AB-212 or six AB-61/SH-3 Neptune heavy helicopters, which can be placed in a long hangar under the long adeck, There are two elevators transporting helicopters between the hangar and deck. At that time the electronics were arguably quite advanced - a three-dimensional AN/SPS-52B radar and an SPS-768 (RAN 3L) aerial search radar, with an/SQS-23 sonar units installed for anti-submarine warfare. The ship was propelled by a 2X73,000 hp steam turbine with a maximum speed of 30 knots. Stabilizing fins are provided under the waterline to improve stability and facilitate helicopter operation. Between 1981 and 1984, after modernization, the standard SM-1ER SAM missile, the OTO Melara Twin 40L70 DARDO CIWS compact gun mount, as well as the installation of a launcher for launching the "Ottomatte" missile, used as a training ship after 1985, a small accident occurred in 1997, Vittorio Veneto was retired in 2003, docked in the port of Taranto originally as a museum, but recently its fate was finalized, It was pulled to Turkey for dismantling, because the manufacturing project used materials that now seem very unecoordinarily unprofitable, such as asbestos, and there are pictures of the historical footage of its final passage through the Taranto Revolving Bridge, which is not long ago. It may be a predecessor of the helicopter carrier, slightly later than the "Joan of Arc", and the Moscow-class helicopter carrier (commissioned in 1967), but the Moscow-class is more extreme, the style is more brutal, so it grabbed a lot of shots, and everyone paid more attention to the Moscow-class helicopter carrier.

As one of the town-state instruments of Italy-One of the seven great powers in the West, it has drawn its own strokes in the history of world ships, promoted the modernization of ships, and explored the development path of ships outside the United States and the Soviet Union, with unique Italian characteristics. At present, the Italian economy is exhausted, but the comprehensive strength is still there. There are very few large companies, a large number of companies such as supercars, the industry is seriously lame, may be related to their personality, good at a single small batch of industrial artwork - may also be one of the reasons why the United States put the F-35's European assembly center in Italy, but full of disdain for mass production. They like to talk about it, once the core of the Renaissance, the starting point of Europe's rise, can they still create glory?