Autoblinda Morris CS9/LAC.

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Autoblinda Morris CS9/LAC.

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History.

In 1935 the English authorities needed to change the old armored cars. In 1936, Morris Commercial Cars, a subsidiary of Morris Motors, introduced a new vehicle on the chassis of the Morris C9 4x2 15-cwt truck. The vehicle was called Morris CS9 and was classified as a Light Armored Car or LAC. About a hundred examples were ordered, and they were put into service in 1938, although the first ones were only used operationally in 1938 by the Royal Tank Corps. Various examples were also used by Commonwealth forces, and several others fell into the hands of their adversaries. A Morris armored car was captured by Italian Marshal Italo Balbo of the 11th Hussar Regiment at Bir El Gobi on 21 June 1940, and was probably reused by the IV Division CC.NN. “January 3rd”. The armored car, along with at least one other of the same model and several others, were used during the defense of Martuba airfield in 1940 and were lost in that battle. It is not known whether other examples were captured besides the two known ones, and the certain fate of the two vehicles is not known.

Armaments and propulsion.

The vehicle was armed with a Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55 in, Boys type rifle and also armed with a Bren machine gun in 7.62 mm caliber. Exceptionally, the vehicle could mount a Vickers machine gun in 11×59mmR Gras caliber.
In terms of engine, the armored car was powered by a 96 hp Morris 6-cylinder petrol engine, which could push the vehicle up to a maximum speed of 73 km/h.

Specifications.

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Crew: 4
Maximum weight: 4.5 t
Length: 4.77 m
Width: 2.05 m
Height: 2.13 m
Engine: Morris 6-cylinder petrol engine with 96 hp
Maximum speed: 73 km/h
Armament: 1x Boys 11 mm anti-tank rifle and 1x Bren 7.7 mm (+ 1x optional Vickers 11 mm caliber)
Armor: 7-0 mm

Pictures and drawnings.

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Sources.

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Le matériel capturé par les Italiens en Afrique du Nord · Milguerres
GLI AUTOVEICOLI DA COMBATTIMENTO DELL'ESERCITO ITALIANO VOL II TOMO II by Biblioteca Militare - Issuu
Morris CS9 - Wikipedia
Morris CS9 - Wikipedia
Morris CS.9 armoured car (1938)
Armorama :: Resicast 1:35 Morris C9 Armoured Car Review
L’AB 41 e la sua variante Semovente da 47/32 – Storia d’Italia

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IDK what this car can do in game, but I approve

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This looks like a fun one. The freaking 11mm Gras machine gun is the cherry on top. I know Britain and France developed incendiary rounds for the 11mm Gras specifically because it was the smallest round they could do it with. Subsequently both Hotchkiss and Vickers machine guns were re-chambered for this round for attacking observation balloons. Hopefully we get these spicy rounds in the game, I think they would be very helpful against aircrafts at low BRs.

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i think there is a little mistake in the armament. mainly the size of the Boys rifle. it’s just a typo I am sure. otherwise, all seem good.

for the data I could acquire about the ammunition of the Boys AT rifle, it should get around this penetration

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ABSOLUTELY! Especially the 11mm Vickers addition! +1

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I have some doubts about this vehicle, due to it’s gun. The Boys AT rifle was notoriously underperforming in WW2 and in War Thunder it could end up like the first early French vehicles that were removed from the tech tree.
If there’s another variant with a better gun, then I will support it.

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There is not variant with better gun sadly (just another one with italian machine guns).

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Looks like its worse than the Csaba

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The a.a. rifle fire faster.

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