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Offline brady

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« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2001, 01:59:00 AM »
Sounds interesting?, whear did you hear about it?

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« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2001, 11:08:00 AM »
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"in germany, novelty lighters were getting ridiculas"

hey, i was close, just it was an Italian novelty lighter  :D

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« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2001, 02:33:00 PM »
Brady said:
Sounds interesting?, whear did you hear about it?

I was able to find a 1984 reprint of the U.S.  wartime handbook on the Italian army.
It needs to be rebound (the binding sucked when it was printed)

There were two types, one 15mm set, one 180mm set.

Weight  150mm27km,  180mm 38.6km

Daylight range voice   150mm 1 to 5km, 180mm 1 to 10km

Daylight range telagraphic  15mm 13km,  180mm 15 to 20km

Italy had some good ideas, in many areas wold leading, but lacked the depth of production that a modern war called for. This lead to the mass production of what they could build, not what should be built.

Some examples:

The S.P.A. 43 desert recon vehicle (I am looking for photos/info on this)

S.P.S. Saharan , a 4X4 with four wheel steering  and  "with a pressure of less than two pounds per square centimeter" ground pressure.