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NOTE - This is a replacement image (and entry of higher quality models than the ones I had up before.

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Ported to OBJ from the model originally created for Silent Hunter 5 (SH5) by Ubisoft and the older fan model created by Gerome73 as an individual release, and which has since turned up in many Silent Hunter series fan mods, mega-mods, and uber-mods. My port of the Gerome73 version comes from Living Silent Hunter 3 2015 (LSH3 2015). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The Littorios were among the most modern fast battleships in the world at the time World War II broke out, and the most modern battleships fielded by the Regia Nave Italiana (RNI), aka the Italian Navy, during the war. Only three were completed in time to take part - Littorio, Vittorio Veneto, and Roma - while the hull of a fourth, Impero, was launched but was never finished due to wartime resource shortages. Vittorio Veneto was the most active during the war, while Littorio spent a fair amount of the war laid up and under repair due to damage caused by Allied attacks at various times (the Taranto raid, the Battle of Cape Mataplan, Operation Vigorous, et al). As for Roma, she made military history when she became the first capital warship to be destroyed by a glider bomb (the WWII ancestor of today's guided bombs and cruise missiles) on 9 September 1943, just a few months after she had been officially commissioned into service. The uncompleted Impero was captured by the Germans during their occupation of Italy, held for a time with the idea of completing her for their own use, but eventually used as a target hulk and later sunk in an Allied bombing raid on 20 Feburary 1945. The only two to survive the war, Littorio and Vittorio Veneto, were promptly claimed by the United States and Great Britian respectively as war prizes so the Soviet Union couldn't claim any modern Italian battleships for itself. Both promptly had them scrapped at La Spezia in Italy in the late 1940s rather than take them and use them with their own fleets. To find out more about the Littorio class, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littorio…

These are straight ports with no changes by me. Two higher quality SH5 Littorio models are at the bottom right. The lowest one is a generic model made by Ubisoft to represent the entire class as a whole, while the next one up is my own retexture in an approximation of the distinctive paint scheme worn by Italian warships in this time. Gerome73 created custom individual textures for his SH3 Littorio model to better represent all three members of the class that actually saw service, and these are the are the ones you see leading off to the upper right.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get somebody else's older rip of the SH5 Littorio from the Pack 3D website by following the link below:

p3dm.ru/files/boat/marine_mili…

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - Littorio is widely regarded as either the third or fourth most powerful modern battleship class in the European theater at the start of World War II,, almost always as the fourth. First is France's Richilieu, narrowly edging out Germany's Bismarck at second (although some naval authorities and armchair fan experts swap these, go with what you prefer). Third and fourth are the British King George V (KGV) class and the Italian Littorio respectively. Littorio has bigger guns than KGV (15 inch vs. 14 inch) but has only nine of them, while KGV has ten. KGV also got better armor and underwater protection, and let's not forget legendary British naval gunnery skills either (ref. HMS Warspite at the Battle of Calabria, 9 July 1940). That in a nutshell is why KGV is almost always rated over Littorio. In the long run Littorio is a better looker than she is a fighter, per most naval authorities and armchair fan experts. Even so, she's still a modern fast battleship in this era and you can't beat that -- especially when you're going up against older European dreadnoughts or battlecruisers (unless they're British, nudge-nudge). You also have to consider the unsuccessful Soviet efforts to secure one of the two surviving Littorios for their own navy after the war. Littorio can hold its own under the right circumstances, and it's a modern fast battleship after all, so don't dismiss Littorio out of hand if you can't get anything better for your World War II era war gaming or fantasy fleet exercises ... like one of the American fast battleship classes, for instance (wink).

ASIDE - Two members of the Littorio class are available in the Italian tech tree in World of Warships by Lesta Studios. Class member Vittorio Veneto, the most famous and most active member of the class during the war, is the stock Tier VIII Italian battleship. Littorio is offered as an Azur Lane premium.

Description

NOTE - This is a replacement image (and entry of higher quality models than the ones I had up before.

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Ported to OBJ from the model originally created for Silent Hunter 5 (SH5) by Ubisoft and the older fan model created by Gerome73 as an individual release, and which has since turned up in many Silent Hunter series fan mods, mega-mods, and uber-mods. My port of the Gerome73 version comes from Living Silent Hunter 3 2015 (LSH3 2015). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The Littorios were among the most modern fast battleships in the world at the time World War II broke out, and the most modern battleships fielded by the Regia Nave Italiana (RNI), aka the Italian Navy, during the war. Only three were completed in time to take part - Littorio, Vittorio Veneto, and Roma - while the hull of a fourth, Impero, was launched but was never finished due to wartime resource shortages. Vittorio Veneto was the most active during the war, while Littorio spent a fair amount of the war laid up and under repair due to damage caused by Allied attacks at various times (the Taranto raid, the Battle of Cape Mataplan, Operation Vigorous, et al). As for Roma, she made military history when she became the first capital warship to be destroyed by a glider bomb (the WWII ancestor of today's guided bombs and cruise missiles) on 9 September 1943, just a few months after she had been officially commissioned into service. The uncompleted Impero was captured by the Germans during their occupation of Italy, held for a time with the idea of completing her for their own use, but eventually used as a target hulk and later sunk in an Allied bombing raid on 20 Feburary 1945. The only two to survive the war, Littorio and Vittorio Veneto, were promptly claimed by the United States and Great Britian respectively as war prizes so the Soviet Union couldn't claim any modern Italian battleships for itself. Both promptly had them scrapped at La Spezia in Italy in the late 1940s rather than take them and use them with their own fleets. To find out more about the Littorio class, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littorio…

These are straight ports with no changes by me. Two higher quality SH5 Littorio models are at the bottom right. The lowest one is a generic model made by Ubisoft to represent the entire class as a whole, while the next one up is my own retexture in an approximation of the distinctive paint scheme worn by Italian warships in this time. Gerome73 created custom individual textures for his SH3 Littorio model to better represent all three members of the class that actually saw service, and these are the are the ones you see leading off to the upper right.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get somebody else's older rip of the SH5 Littorio from the Pack 3D website by following the link below:

p3dm.ru/files/boat/marine_mili…

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - Littorio is widely regarded as either the third or fourth most powerful modern battleship class in the European theater at the start of World War II,, almost always as the fourth. First is France's Richilieu, narrowly edging out Germany's Bismarck at second (although some naval authorities and armchair fan experts swap these, go with what you prefer). Third and fourth are the British King George V (KGV) class and the Italian Littorio respectively. Littorio has bigger guns than KGV (15 inch vs. 14 inch) but has only nine of them, while KGV has ten. KGV also got better armor and underwater protection, and let's not forget legendary British naval gunnery skills either (ref. HMS Warspite at the Battle of Calabria, 9 July 1940). That in a nutshell is why KGV is almost always rated over Littorio. In the long run Littorio is a better looker than she is a fighter, per most naval authorities and armchair fan experts. Even so, she's still a modern fast battleship in this era and you can't beat that -- especially when you're going up against older European dreadnoughts or battlecruisers (unless they're British, nudge-nudge). You also have to consider the unsuccessful Soviet efforts to secure one of the two surviving Littorios for their own navy after the war. Littorio can hold its own under the right circumstances, and it's a modern fast battleship after all, so don't dismiss Littorio out of hand if you can't get anything better for your World War II era war gaming or fantasy fleet exercises ... like one of the American fast battleship classes, for instance (wink).

ASIDE - Two members of the Littorio class are available in the Italian tech tree in World of Warships by Lesta Studios. Class member Vittorio Veneto, the most famous and most active member of the class during the war, is the stock Tier VIII Italian battleship. Littorio is offered as an Azur Lane premium.