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While everybody knows the story of the famous and very beautiful ITS "Amerigo Vespucci", very few ones know that this is essentially a steel version of the "Monarca" (Monarch) the admiral ship of the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. After the Civil War and Unification of Italy the...

Here is all story for this seaplane; At the beginning of 1916 the Austro-Hungarian aviation could boast the supremacy of the skies and was difficult to counter both for the quality of the available means and for the difficulty of reaching and effectively hitting the bases from which it...

Hello all; I recently got my hands on a Storia Militare 'Dossier', the first part of a series covering the Italian navy from 1945 to 2015 (first part being from 1945 to 1970, issue no.14, Sept-Oct 2014) by Michele Cosentino and Maurizio Brescia. Within the SM 'Dossier' there is mentioned, in...

These projects date back to the beginning of the 20th century when many warship experiences and design concepts were developed. Neither proved to be viable. There is little information about these projects and in one case it is only possible to speculate on certain specifications. The first...

An interesting midget submarine that became a vital part of an even more interesting operation of the Decima Flottiglia MAS that came close to fruition in 1943 (it was ultimately scheduled for December of that year, but events intervened). Development of the CA-class had begun pre-war, in 1938...

Italian Navy during WWII started the conversion of the two almost-sister ocean liners ROMA and AUGUSTUS (they had only different engines), they was turned into AQUILA and SPARVIERO. While the AQUILA was pratically finished (even if not still entered in service) when Italian signed the Armistice...

Hi to all, I am still here to write about news written in the book "Aircraft Carrier Impero" (authors Davide F. Jabes and Stefano Sappino). We talked about it here: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,30931.0.html and here about the DAAC antiaircraft missile...

Hi, first of all, Happy New Year at all. Secondly, I am reading the book "Aircraft Carrier Impero", authors Davide F. Jabes and Stefano Sappino. We talked about it here: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,30931.0.html At page 159-163 there are some notes about the...

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https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/aaminis/impero-the-italian-shinano-t8793-s10.html?sid=572ce2b9d8cf48ac6bb861326d0848d8 https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/rn-impero-battleship-to-aircraft-carrier-conversion-study-1200-model/...

Hello. I'm not sure this post should be right here, but it's the closest theme I found. Does anyone have any data about the radio-controlled torpedo that - according to some sources - was supposed to be used from P.108? According to available data, the aforementioned torpedo was developed in...

What can the dozens of experts tell me about Italian designed and built submarines?

Enrico Cernuschi and Vincent O'Hara's article on Italian aircraft carrier design ("Search for a Flattop: The Italian Navy and the Aircraft Carrier 1907-2007") in Warship 2007 has a passing mention of two mid-1930s proposals for carrier-based aircraft: the Caproni Ca.165 biplane fighter and a...

Hi, does anyone know the Gallinari seaplanes of WWI ?,he was Italian designer .

Anyone have any more information about dimensions and speed of this 1937 Italian sub hunter of 1300 tons with anti-submarine float plane? Love to know more about the floatplane. 3x1 120mm; 4x1 20mm; 2x2 torpedo tubes; 4 depth charge throwers, and sonar...

Project G - 'Submergible motorboat', originally intended for coastal defence (a 'fighter' concept, armed with two 450 mm torpedoes), prototypes later modified for special operations with the 10th Light Flotilla [Decima Flottiglia MAS]. First batch (prototypes) CA 1 - Scuttled at La Spezia...

C.M.A.S.A. - Construzioni Mecchaniche Aeronautiche SA Designations Rinaldo Piaggio began SCMP (sometimes 'SDCMP' for Societa di Costruzioni Meccaniche di Pisa) in 1922 to license Dornier designs. In 1929, SCMP joined the Fiat Group and, in 930, the name was changed to Construzioni Mecchaniche...

Hi, a well known Italian company,which was formed in 1925,and in 1934 became IMAM,or simply Meridionali; Ro.1 licence built Fokker C.V,a two seat recce and bomber biplane Ro.2 to Ro.4 ------? Ro.5 two seat parasol wing sporting and training monoplane Ro.6 was a version of the Ro.5...

Hi, here is the Fiat CR.44 fightere bomber project and two Caproni Vizzola dive bomber projects,also CANSA glider dive bomber project.

Something about the ricci brothers: Umberto Ricci, born in Verona on November 26, 1886 Ettore Ricci, born in Verona on November 30, 1888: they started their aeronautical career in 1905, building little hot air rigid airship models. After some free flight gliders, they built a triple-tandem...