120 mm/50 Armstrong model 1909 (120 mm) - Revision history

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== Description ==
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=== Vehicles equipped with this weapon ===


* {{Specs-Link|it_battleship_dante_alighieri}}

== General info ==
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=== Available ammunition ===
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=== Comparison with analogues ===
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== Usage in battles ==
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=== Pros and cons ===
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== History ==
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== See also ==
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{{Italy naval cannons}}

[[Category:Naval cannons]]

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 == History ==
-The Regio Marina (Royal Italian Navy) was actually the first navy to consider the idea of an all-big-gun battleship that would soon take the world by storm when [[HMS Dreadnought|''HMS Dreadnought'']] was launched in 1906. The Italians were relatively slow to adopt this new idea and only began building their first dreadnought [[RN Dante Alighieri|''RN Dante Alighieri'']] in 1909. That same year, the Elswick Pattern "EE" was adopted by the Regio Marina as the 120 mm/50 Armstrong model 1909 (Armstrong referring to the parent company of Elswick Ordinance Works). The first use for these new weapons was as the secondary armament for the ''Dante Alighieri'', but later that same year, the protected cruiser ''Quatro'' intended as a scout for the main fleet, was laid down using these same guns as their primary weapons. The follow-up to the ''Dante Alighieri'', the ''Conte di Cavour''-class dreadnoughts ''RN Conte di Cavour'', ''RN Guilio Cesare'' and ''RN Leonardo da Vinci'' retained these Armstrong model 1909s as their secondary battery.
+<!-- ''Examine the history of the creation and combat usage of the weapon in more detail than in the introduction. If the historical reference turns out to be too long, take it to a separate article, taking a link to the article about the weapon and adding a block "/History" (example: <nowiki>https://wiki.warthunder.com/(Weapon-name)/History</nowiki>) and add a link to it here using the <code>main</code> template. Be sure to reference text and sources by using <code><nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki></code>, as well as adding them at the end of the article with <code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>.'' -->
-In World War I, only the Armstrong guns on the ''Quatro'' saw combat. Italian Admiral Paolo Thaon de Revel believed Austro-Hungarian submarines and minelayers were too dangerous in the narrow Adriatic Sea to risk their dreadnoughts in anything other than a decisive battle. So these mighty ships were kept in reserve while the ''Quatro'' got to see action against an Austro-Hungarian naval task force that attempt to intercept transports evacuating the Serbian Army from Albania in December 1915. The ''Dante Alighieri'' was ordered to attack enemy ships at Cattaro (new Kotor, Montenegro) if they attempted to intervene in the Second Battle of Durrazo, but the Austro-Hungarians didn't send any ships from Cattaro and the dreadnought never fired her guns in anger. After the war ended, ''Dante Alighieri'' was scrapped out of a combination of age and budget constraints from the economic recession in Italy at the time. She was soon joined by the ''Quatro'' which after a brief period of supporting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935-1936, ended up suffering from a boiler explosion at La Spezia in 1938. The ''Conte di Cavour''-class dreadnoughts didn't get to use their use guns after the war either as the lead ship suffered a magazine detonation in 1916 at Taranto and the sister ships were refitted after with more modern 120mm O.T.O. Mod 1933. The following [[RN Andrea Doria|''Andrea Doria''-class]] dreadnoughts were armed with [[152 mm/45 Schneider model 1911 (152 mm)|152 mm/45 Schneider model 1911]] guns and by World War II the only 120 mm/45 Armstrong Model 1909 guns in service were serving in the coastal defense role.
+In World War I, only the Armstrong guns on the ''Quatro'' saw combat. Italian Admiral Paolo Thaon de Revel believed Austro-Hungarian submarines and minelayers were too dangerous in the narrow Adriatic Sea to risk their dreadnoughts in anything other than a decisive battle. So these mighty ships were kept in reserve while the ''Quatro'' got to see action against an Austro-Hungarian naval task force that attempt to intercept transports evacuating the Serbian Army from Albania in December 1915. The ''Dante Alighieri'' was ordered to attack enemy ships at Cattaro (now Kotor, Montenegro) if they attempted to intervene in the Second Battle of Durrazo, but the Austro-Hungarians didn't send any ships from Cattaro and the dreadnought never fired her guns in anger. After the war ended, ''Dante Alighieri'' was scrapped out of a combination of age and budget constraints from the economic recession in Italy at the time. She was soon joined by the ''Quatro'' which after a brief period of supporting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935-1936, ended up suffering from a boiler explosion at La Spezia in 1938. The ''Conte di Cavour''-class dreadnoughts didn't get to use their guns after the war either as the lead ship suffered a magazine detonation in 1916 at Taranto and the sister ships were refitted after with the more modern 120 mm O.T.O. Mod 1933. The following [[RN Andrea Doria|''Andrea Doria''-class]] dreadnoughts were armed with [[152 mm/45 Schneider model 1911 (152 mm)|152 mm/45 Schneider model 1911]] guns and by World War II the only 120 mm/45 Armstrong Model 1909 guns in service were serving in the coastal defense role.
 == Media ==

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 === Available ammunition ===
-''Describe the shells that are available for the weapon and their features and purpose. If it concerns autocannons or machine guns, write about different ammo belts and what is inside (which types of shells).''
+<!-- ''Describe the shells that are available for the weapon and their features and purpose. If it concerns autocannons or machine guns, write about different ammo belts and what is inside (which types of shells).'' -->
 === Comparison with analogues ===

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 == See also ==
 ''Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:''
 * ''reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;''
 * ''references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.''
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 == External links ==
 ''Paste links to sources and external resources, such as:''
 * ''topic on the official game forum;''
 * ''other literature.''