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Wednesday, August 13th 2003, 10:00am

Italian Tanks

http://www.geocities.com/red_admiral_italy/tanks.html

Here is a short article on Italian Tanks 1930 onwards.

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Wednesday, August 13th 2003, 3:14pm

Just a touch ambitious for 1920...

The fire support vehicle looks a lot like the Semovente M14/90, of which there were 30... in 1941 ... carrying six main gun rounds on board...

http://www.wwiivehicles.com/html/italy/SelfPropelledGuns.htm

Historically, the Italian tank arm dates from 1926, when 100 Fiat 3000s were formed into 5 battalions.

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Wednesday, August 13th 2003, 4:02pm

You make a valid point about the number of rounds carried. i thought 50 would be a reasonable figure - turns out it isn't.
I don't think that it is too ambitious for the 1920's. The "whippet", now 5 year vintage could do 8mph tops. Notice that none of my vehicles are fast. Armour is rather thin as well. Armament seems fair.
The self propelled gun is just a light artillery weapon fixed to the chassis with a sheild bolted on.


I plan to form 1 Armoured Bridage at the moment. So only 200 vehicles at most. And of course tracked vehicles aren't very reliable at the moment, there are definite advantages in using the chassis..

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Wednesday, August 13th 2003, 6:24pm

good stuff

My only critique would be that the tanks look too modern for 1921, otherwise a very nicely done site.

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Friday, August 15th 2003, 9:43pm

I've altered the dates to 1930. More realistic.