P.108B serie 1: Potentially the most underrated Italian bomber

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Hello warthunder,

I’m here to yap about what I think might be one of the best heavy bombers at 3.3 : the P.108B serie 1. This bomber boasts a heavy bomb load of 34 × 100 kg bombs to 7 × 500 kg GP bombs. (good for flattening any base at its br.)

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And that’s not all! the P.108B also has a very good defensive armament
consisting of 4x 12.7 mm Breda-SAFAT machine gun turrets and 2x 7.7 mm Breda-SAFATs. (this does come at a cost though seeing that it takes 6 crew members to operate them.) And if no casualties are taken this plane does not have one blind spot!

Lastly this beast can achieve high altitudes for its BR causing it to be free from most fighters.

Let me know your thoughts on this bomber, I would love to hear some opinions.

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Which can’t hit anything.
Piaggio would be good if wing turrets were able to fire at the same spot. Another issue making almost all Italian bombers weak is a lack of HE bullets in their turrets belts.
You can see how awful defensive capabilities of P.108 by looking at P.108A, which is still an easy target even at 1.7.

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