Hello!
I would like to ask if it’s accurate that Italian 8 mm AA machineguns installed on tanks (M13/40, M14/41, M15/42 and P40) can’t be horizontally traversed.
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75/18 M41 seems to have similar installation, which allows horizontal rotation with limited angle, although mechanism is located without elevation.
So with that in mind, as I understand these mgs installed on Italian tanks should also be rotated horizontally but after they are elevated to a certain degree, shouldn’t they or this condition can be achieved only with opened roof hatches?
They had a little angle of rotation (pratically useless and this was hated by tankers).
For the elevation yes, you need to open the hatches (I was planning to suggest this thing).
Btw just for talking, do you guys know the Semovente da 75/46?
This guy.
Well, theorically (we can’t 100% because we didn’t know a lot about it) the Breda 38 in this particular impiant could rotate at 360°.
"In purple the pin where the anti-aircraft support was fixed
In red the “rod” support
In blue the Breda Model 1938
This is how it would have shot in the back
"
(Text by Arturo Giusti on Discord).
It was practically a physical massacre for the gunner, who would have had to climb out of the canopy over half his body and turn backwards.
