There is a book on the argentine G55, ill send you the link.
Btw, my eyes are quite pleased to see those italian designed plane’s. If they fly as well as they look…, i guess you catch my drift.
Greeting stano666.
The Reggianes were the nicest and fastest.
Effectiveness of Breda 12.7mm machinegun ammunition:
Here is an account written by a British pilot based in Malta, that describes the effect of these guns on his plane. It’s interesting to read what the (famous but underrated) HE esplosive round was capable of doing in real life.
So many people still think these rounds were “useless” or just “tore fabric or metal skins off”.
The action describes one of the first actions of the Macchi C.202s over Malta.
The aerial combat took place on the 22th of October 1941.
One of the Hurricanes was shot down, another one landed heavily damaged withouth Italian losses.
Hello Panzerknacker, the article is effectively very interesting to read, my subjects preceding were not the to deny the qualities of the Italian weapons, they had the power and a shell of 12.7 remain a shell of 12.7, he/it is not better to receive one of it. What I wanted to make comprerndre that is that, whereas the allemends and the English passed to the cannon of 20 or 30, the arming of the Italian planes remained when to it relatively poor. The example of your G55 in watch the proof, because of the the departure he was only equipped of 12.7 that didn’t give really satisfaction. Now it is necessary to know that the Italian munitions were contrary to what one thinks, of good qualities.
For information on what a simple weapon can make, I am going to take like example an AK47, certainly you will tell to me that it is not a fantastic aerial weapon and you will be right in part, only in part, bus at the time of the war of Vietnam, the Vietnamese pulled in air every time that a plane passed them over to the of the head, and well; represent yourselves that this small bullet of nothing at all, face has a F4 Phantom, provoked them some rips on the fuselage of more than iun measured of long, because the speed of the bullet added to the speed of the plane with an angle of 90 degree, it provokes seriousness damages, this example I pulled it from a narration of an American pilot in Vietnam, to say that even the things that appear petty can have big effects on a plane that displacing to big speed.
Friendly Fred
Regarding the Vietnam war, there is another important fact about effect on fire from small arms. The airplanes with jets are more “vulnerable” to damage from small objects than propeller driven airplanes: a projectile in the air intakes of a G-55 has not so much effect, instead it can be very dangerous for the moving parts of a reaction engine that works at high speed. And normally Vietkong must use a lot of light infantry guns in order to achieve results easily.
The Breda SAFAT 12,7mm in the light flak role, 1943.
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Thats one nice weapon, wish I could get one here… (be fun to shoot on the weekends…) 