i think you may need to post some examples of nice Italian ships to jog my memory.
Only Cavour strikes me as visually impressive.

I think aesthetics is debatable and a very personal parameter even for modern military ships.
Methinks aesthetics derived from the number of guns installed on a ship is rather silly vs. e.g. the use of intelligent systems like the Aster 30 the Vulcano guided ammunitions: http://www.difesa.it/SGD-DNA/Staff/DT/NAVARM/Vulcano-EN/Pagine/Configuration2.aspx http://www.difesa.it/SGD-DNA/Staff/DT/NAVARM/Vulcano-EN/Pagine/Configuration3.aspx
In the future the guns will be more and more concealed and vanishing for low obesrvaibility purposes, so noramlly you will see less guns on the deck, whithout this implying a lesser fire power.

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Anyway, here there comes a link to a recent pix gallery of the official MM website of the first 3 Italian FREMM delivered to Italian Navy together: http://www.marina.difesa.it/_Layouts/MMIV2-Layouts/pages/MMI.GalleriaFullscreen.aspx?PageId=b1e9238b-f981-41fe-bf41-712784ea8af8&Guid=c12a32fb-bf42-476e-81c6-a4c92fd074c1

MM will have from 8 of 10 of these frigates in service in the next years. Of course you are entitled to evaluate them as ugly or baddass.

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