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Besides the risk of being hit by enemy weapons or being crushed by the tracks, the same use of the bomb was dangerous because high flames immediately blazed with its explosion of the engine compartment, also hot hydraulic fluid squirted in all directions and ammunition inside the tank could explode.
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For an effective launch the bomb must be handled with the right hand on the handle and using the left hand to withdraw the safe. To be properly launched it had to be thrown by standing up with a circular path from 'top down and possibly at least 20/25 mt.
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or holes) and rushed to approach the tank. Other times crawling in between the moving carts and, to avoid being crushed by the tracks, even leaving that these would pass over them and then get up and launch their weapons after the tank had passed.
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118:30000 produced on North African theater
692:World War II infantry weapons of Italy
414:Moschetto per Truppe Speciali Mod. 91
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409:Moschetto Mod. 91 da Cavalleria
243:"Bomb description on Talpo.it"
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221:Seeing in action the Italian
457:Carabinetta Automatica O.V.P
404:Fucile da Fanteria Mod. 1891
107:Improvised explosive devices
641:6.5Ă—52mm Mannlicher-Carcano
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261:"Information on Talpo.it"
48:Place of origin
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537:Fucile Controcarro 35(P)
485:and other larger weapons
424:Armaguerra Mod. 39 rifle
497:Fiat Revelli Mod. 1935
492:Fiat-Revelli Mod. 1914
194:during their advance.
613:81/14 Model 35 Mortar
168:North African theater
166:, especially in the
91:Lieutenant Passaglia
532:Solothurn S-18/1000
142:Filling weight
697:Anti-tank grenades
152:Passaglia Grenades
83:Production history
67:Royal Italian Army
702:Grenades of Italy
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560:OTO Mod. 42
555:OTO Mod. 35
507:Breda-SAFAT
502:SAFAT M1926
362:Steyr M1912
223:Bersaglieri
188:machine-gun
180:OTO Mod. 35
174:Description
115: built
686:Categories
292:OTO Mod 35
671:20Ă—138mmB
651:8Ă—57mm IS
623:Cartridge
395:moschetti
334:Side arms
160:Pazzaglia
636:.380 ACP
547:Grenades
386:carbines
276:See also
211:trenches
96:Designed
88:Designer
631:.32 ACP
595:Mortars
462:FNAB-43
452:Onorati
156:P Bombs
128:Filling
23:P Bomb
599:mortai
585:P Bomb
580:L Type
447:MAB 38
391:fucili
382:Rifles
287:Type L
136:Romite
472:TZ-45
467:OG-43
192:tanks
384:and
229:Note
99:1941
73:Wars
38:Type
158:or
134:or
132:TNT
113:No.
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