The waist emplacements of the two 7.7 Breda-Safat machine guns in the fuselage of a recce seaplane Fiat RS.14. Note the ammunitions belts linked to the fuselage’s roof and the aluminium containers for the spent belt and cases. Victor Sierra

Inside an Italian seaplane

Italian resistance movement

Italian bombers Fiat BR.20M “Cicogna” (Stork) in mission above the Balkans, 1941. The aircrafts have already the new dorsal turret manually-operated Caproni Lanciani Delta E armed with a Scotti 12.7 mm machine gun which has replaced the electrically-operated retractable Breda M1 turret mounted on the planes of the previous series. The long tube visible in the opposite side of the MG’s barrel serve as aerodynamic balance. In substance is a tube symmetric to the MG’s barrel which move top and bottom along with the same barrel (in the photo MG’s barrel and tube for aerodynamic balance are top traversed) balancing in this matter the aerodynamic drag opposed to the gunner. The traverse of this turret is 360 degrees. Victor Sierra