Italian Forces

A weapon particularly redoubtable

Ali e Uomini

The Breda-SAFAT 12.7mm (.500 in) machine gun in the dorsal turret backward defence of an Italian bomber Savoia-Marchetti S.79’s traversed at high elevation’s angle. Its caliber made this MG – on the S.79 with two loader, each with 250 shot, side angle traverse 300 degrees for each sector, elevation angle traverse 70 degrees, muzzle velocity 765 meter per second (2,510 ft/s) installed also in the dorsal turret of the Fiat BR.20M and CRDA Cant-Z-1007bis bombers - a weapon for its time particularly redoubtable. In effect the most common British bomber in the Mediterranean theater at beginning of the war, the Bristol Blenheim Mk 1, had a dorsal turret with a single 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K, later two, but again of the same caliber, on the Blenheim IV. Victor Sierra