Impetuoso class destroyer

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Class overview
Operators:	Marina Militare
Succeeded by:	Impavido
In service:	1957
In commission:	1956 - 1983
Completed:	2
Retired:	2
General characteristics
Displacement:	2,775 tons standard 3,810 tons full load
Length:	127.6
Beam:	13.2 m
Draught:	4.5 m
Propulsion:	2 shaft geared turbines 4 Foster Wheeler boilers providing 65,000 hp
Speed:	34 knots
Range:	3,000 nm at 16 knots
Complement:	315
Armament:	2 × Twin 127/38 mm guns 2 × Quad Bofors 40 mm guns 4 × Twin Bofors 40 mm guns 2 x 533 mm duble torpedo launchers

The Impetuoso class were the first post war destroyers built for the Italian Navy. The hull design was based on the uncompleted Comandante class destroyers but American equipment (guns, radar, machinery) was used. A scheme to install guided missiles during a modernisation programme was proposed but not carried out. The two ships were ordered in 1952,entered service in 1957 and were retired in the early 1980's.

[edit] Ships

Name	Pennant number	Builder	Commissioned	Fate
Impetuoso	D 558	CNR Riva Trigoso	25 January 1958	Decommissioned 1983
Indomito	D 559	Ansaldo	23 February 1958	Decommissioned 1980