RN Bartolomeo Colleoni

RN Bartolomeo Colleoni

RN Bartolomeo Colleoni

Description

The Alberto da Giussano-class, RN Bartolomeo Colleoni, 1932 is a rank Italian light cruiser with a battle rating of (AB), (RB), and (SB). It was introduced in Update "Starfighters".

General info

Survivability and armour

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Mobility

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Mobility Characteristics
Game Mode	Upgrade Status	Maximum Speed (km/h)		Turn Time (s)	Turn Radius (m)
		Forward	Reverse
AB	Stock	___	___
	Upgraded
RB/SB	Stock	___	___
	Upgraded

Armament

Primary armament

RN Bartolomeo Colleoni has 4 turrets with 2 x 152 mm cannons each. They can load normal HE, APHEBC, or HE-TF shells. The turrets all have good horizontal traverse range, and only a small angle is required for a full broadside salvo. The fire rate is slow, but with good ballistics and explosive filler, the HE shells should still be able to quickly dispatch any unfortunate destroyers. The APHEBC shells are well suited for use against better-armoured targets, such as other cruisers. The HE-TF shell can be useful against aircraft, but are difficult to use efficiently due to their fixed timed fuse.

Secondary armament

RN Bartolomeo Colleoni has 6 x 100 mm cannons split into 3 turrets as secendary armament. They are positioned in the middle of the ship. Due to their placement, only two turrets can be fired in the same direction at the same time. Their reload speed is much better than the main cannons, as to be expected with the smaller calibre, which means they can be used efficiently as supplementary damage output while waiting for the main guns to reload. Three shell types are available: HE, APHE, and HE-TF*.

Anti-aircraft armament

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Additional armament

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

Pros:

• Balanced armour layout
• More than adequate firepower
• Enough survivability
• Sufficient manoeuvrability

Cons:

• Short ranged torpedoes
• Insufficient 100 mm cannons
• Not good enough AA to hold a plain back

History

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Media

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See also

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• reference to the series of the ship;
• links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.

External links

• [Devblog] The first Light Cruisers in War Thunder

Ansaldo
Corvettes
Gabbiano-class	RN Gabbiano · Folaga
Destroyers
Leone-class	RN Leone · RN Tigre
Light Cruisers
Condottieri-class	RN Bartolomeo Colleoni · RN Raimondo Montecuccoli · RN Eugenio di Savoia
Heavy Cruisers
Trento-class	RN Bolzano
Battleships
Conte di Cavour-class	Novorossiysk*
	*RN Giulio Cesare before war reparation to the USSR