Les, The air defense of Taranto was mostly shore based, and they had predictors for each group of lighter AA guns. The lighter ones set to be directed in teams of four or six guns. Both the italians and Germans were experimenting with directed patterns to boxed area saturation.

Here are the actual statistics Antiaircraft defenses fully active and including: 21 batteries armed with 101 mm guns, 68 machine-gun installations for a total of 84 barrels both on fixed and floating positions 109 light machine-guns both in fixed and floating positions.

Antiaircraft obstructions consisting of 27 round balloons, 16 moored west and north of the ships on the Tarantola jetty. 11 moored along the eastern part of the same jetty.