Author Topic: Macchi's BREDA-Safat 12,7mm ammos  (Read 1032 times)

Offline gatt

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Macchi's BREDA-Safat 12,7mm ammos
« on: March 17, 2002, 10:13:46 AM »
I saw that the italian 12,7mm machine gun ROF has been improved. Here are some specs and a pic that could be interesting for HTC (courtesy of Ferdinando "Veltro" D'Amico):

12,7x81SR Italian Breda aircraft cannon, HEIT bullet, m=37,5g, high explosive: 1,0g PETN + Magnesium + wax, l=51,75mm, Vo=792m/s, ol=107,8mm, om=85,0g, 8,0g propellant, brass left thread fuze with spin-band safety, headstamp: BPD | S | 39, bullet has dark blue color, fuze unpainted.

12,7x81SR Italian Breda aircraft cannon, APIT bullet, m=37,0g, incendiary: ~1,0g Zinc-oxidizer mixture, l=50,8mm, Vo=792m/s, ol=107,1mm, 8,2g propellant, headstamp: BPD | S | 41, white reduced bullettip.

12,7x81SR Italian Breda aircraft cannon, API bullet, m=37,0g, incendiary: White Phosporous, l=49,3mm, Vo=792m/s, ol=106,9mm, 8,2g propellant, headstamp: SMI | 943, blue bullettip.

"And one of the finest aircraft I ever flew was the Macchi C.205. Oh, beautiful. And here you had the perfect combination of italian styling and german engineering .... it really was a delight to fly ... and we did tests on it and were most impressed." - Captain Eric Brown

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Macchi's BREDA-Safat 12,7mm ammos
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2002, 02:58:51 PM »
Kweeeeeeel
Rasmus "Wilbus" Mattsson

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