303:. These Italian assault guns were produced in appreciable numbers for they were better armoured and quicker to produce than the contemporary Italian tanks. But by the time significant numbers had been issued, Italy was effectively out of the war, and most of these guns fell into German hands. The majority of these semoventi were armed with 75 mm and 105 mm guns and howitzers, but were mostly direct fire weapons. The Italian artillery arm still needed self-propelled artillery weapons to support the armoured formations.
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chassis. The selection of these two pieces of equipment was made in order to produce as good a carriage/weapon combination as possible. The snag however was that the
Italian army was already crying out for large numbers of both the gun and tank and Italian industry could not keep up with the demand.
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Germans took over what was left of the Italian economy. Thus the Semovente da 149/40 prototype remained the sole example of what seemed to be a promising design. The Cannone da 149/40 modello 35 could fire a 46 kg (101 lb) shell to a range of 23,700 metres (25,900 yards), at which
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Semovente da 149/40 was a completely unprotected weapon as the long gun barrel was placed on an open mounting carried on the turretless tank chassis. The gun crew stood in the open to serve the gun that had its trunnions mounted right to the rear to absorb some of the recoil forces produced on
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Italians surrendered to the
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therefore diverted some of its development facilities to design a powerful artillery weapon that could be carried on a tracked chassis. In the end, Ansaldo settled on an existing weapon, the
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167:149.1 mm (5.87 in)
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719:Vespa-Caproni Armoured Car
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295:in realizing the need for
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675:SPA Dovunque 35 protetto
262:self-propelled artillery
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144:3 m (9.8 ft)
389:"Semovente da 149/40"
358:H, Jim (2019-05-26).
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744:Categories
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398:2021-12-12
369:2021-12-12
331:References
235:Suspension
220:SPA petrol
186:6 mm (top)
496:Fiat 3000
455:Tankettes
206:Secondary
104:Late 1942
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671:(French)
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208:armament
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101:Produced
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83:Designer
73:(trials)
307:Ansaldo
293:Germans
276:History
163:Calibre
87:Ansaldo
729:P40/43
552:P26/40
534:M15/42
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524:M13/40
519:M11/39
324:Allies
217:Engine
178:Armour
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447:Italy
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287:The
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