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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skybolt" data-source="post: 64236" data-attributes="member: 145">Ok, this is another never-seen-before from "Il Bel Paese".If you ever asked yourself if there was something between the SM-93 and the SM-95, here's the answer. Actually very lttle is known regarding this design. The views I post (sorry for low rez and small size, but, you know... PM me if REALLY interested...) are very late in the war, July 17th 1943, just a week before the overthrow of Benito. First the few facts then my interpretation. It is a twin-engines (I.F. Deltas) twin crew, rather heavily armed for Italian standards (four 20 mm guns plus a 12,7 mm machine gun manned by the second man of the crew, facing rear) attack aircraft (NOT a dive bomber, though).  Five hard points, four under the wings, one under the fuselage. Carries bombs or a torpedo (I'm working from other drawings I'm not posting). Structure: probably traditional trellis (steel tubes) in the rear of the fuselage, no data on the rest. Interpretation: differently from what I posted in another topic, I now think it is NOT linked to the "zanzara" program which gave birth to the Ca-381 Corsaro (earlier program than this one). Delta engines point to some hush-hush (probably work started in April-May 1943) and low-cost need and wouldn't have provided very high performance (less than 2000 total HP installed). Maybe intended as a smaller alternative to the S-79 as a torpedo bomber.  Anyway, it wasn't pursued further.</blockquote>

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