#girls and tanks
The Semovente M41 da 90/53. One of the better Italian self propelled guns. The cannon itself was an Anti Air gun (Common theme that) and fired a 22lb/10kg shell. For comparison the the German 7.5cm guns used 14lb shells, the Tiger I believe 20lb and of course the British had the 17lb shell. Now 22lbs is a lot of weight for a shell. This could be a very powerful gun (if I could find penetration tables for the damn thing, I assume it close to if not better than the German 8.8cm L/56. Only problem this has for Girls Und Panzer is that its open top and all but 8 rounds for this thing was kept in a separate ammo carrier which was another light tank converted. Anchovy I’d be proud of that gun too, its great. Shame the chassis was underpowered, prone to break and generally a nightmare. Can’t have it all I’m afraid.
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The Carro Armato P 40, a okay attempt at a tank.
This thing was designed as a heavy tank and compared to earlier heavy tanks such as the KV1 it isn’t fab. They had trouble getting a good enough engine as they kept adding weight to it after design changes from revelations such as the T-34.
Originally meant to have a crew of 5 it was dropped to 4 by the time it was in production and we all know how 2 crew turrets worked out. Looking in this book it had a lot of design changes and requests, a possible 100mm hull front. That could of been nice. They even had a SPG model made but was seized by the Germans after the Italian surrender. Not sure who had the better tank design, the Japanese of the Italians… Still I’d rather see Anzio School win over Oorai anyday. Oorai is just the worst.
Reference: Cappellano, Filippo, and Pier Paolo Battistelli. Italian medium tanks: 1939-45. Oxford: Osprey, 2012. Print.
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