Talk:Gabbiano-class corvette

Torpedo tubes:

The article seems disparaging about the torpedo component of the armament, pondering about the Italian decision "not to remove" torpedo tubes "for more ASW weapons". This seems like personal opinion and weighted with some degree of bias. Submarines found torpedoes to be very effective at sinking surfaced submarines, while guns were notoriously inefficient at sinking them outright when surfaced, other than at point-blank range. As it was, the RM lacked any form of ahead-thrown weapon, the torpedoes were mounted aft of the break of the forecastle, and the craft had plenty of DCs, both stern-dropped and side-launched from eight DCTs; a very capable armament when compared to a British 'Flower'. There's no reason that the torpedoes would not have been very useful in dispatching a surfaced submarine, brought up by DC attack. Italian corvettes were not ineffective ASW craft either, so perhaps the article could be edited to be more neutral and less opinionated about the torpedo armament? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.29.127.120 (talk) 22:18, 27 May 2022 (UTC)