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[Panzerpreussen]

Comrades!:

Here I leave maybe one of the best Italian Fiat CR.25 aircraft, but inexplicably thrown away in favor to trash like Breda Ba.88

The Fiat CR.25 was created and developed by Celestino Rossatelli and his team in 1937 as a reconnaissance aircraft capable of long range bombing secondary. Ordered production of 40 units but was only completed a dozen, assigned in 1941 to the 173rd Squadriglia Ricognizione Strategica, operating from Sicily. The production included a version called CR.25bis, far-reaching. The tenth and last device was adapted and used in missions VIP link between Rome and Berlindesignated CR.25D which was confiscated by the Germans after the Italian armistice of 1943, being employed by the Luftwaffe as a trainer until 1944. Note that FIAT proposed developing a prototype for CR.25quater version, which should be equipped with engines 1.175hp. and armed with 20mm Mauser cannon. do not attracted the interest of the Regia Aeronautica. The model was inexplicably relegated CR.25 of the possibilities of mass production orders for multipurpose concept despite its excellent performance in favor of the late Breda Ba.88.

here some photos:


here the link between Roma-Berlin




Reminds me of the Henschel Hs 129 ....

Technical characteristics:
Type: twin-engine monoplane bomber and reconnaissance.
Country of origin: Italy.
Crew: 2 (or 3 in bombing mission).
Length: 13'56m.
Wingspan: 16m.
Height: 3'30m.
Wing area: 39'20m2.
Empty weight: 4,475 lbs.
Loaded weight: 6,625 lbs. (7950 kgs. As a bomber).
Powerplant: 2 x FIAT A.74 radial RC.38, 840hp unit.
Speed??: 450 km / h. (490 in no-load tests).
Coverage: 1500-2100 kms
Service ceiling: 7,950-9.800m.
Armament: 1 machine gun Breda-Safat of 12'7mm., 3 machine guns 7'7mm. Breda-Safat, 300-500 kgs. pumps.
Production: 10 units.......10 UNITS!!???

If it were possible to fly this bella ragazza, to see their good characteristics and their role in bombing ...

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Preussen

[HundertzehnGustav]

a ragazza she is!
had one in MAW/CFS3... biuuutiful lines.
but, like so many italian Planes, Beauty is all she has to offer. Nothing under da hood.


I can see her as a counterpart to a blenheim though...
shame tho. the Lince sucked . coundt fly fast, couldnt manuuuver, couldnt see a damn thing sideways.
The Fiat in much Bigger Numbers would have made a very versatile Platform for a Mini B-25like Plane.
anything from Glassnose levelbpmbing to Gunnose ground attacking possible.
The Lince couldnt even do the first thing right.

[LuseKofte]

A Breda 88 ground attack aircraft


The Breda Ba.88 was designed to fulfill a 1936 requirement by the Regia Aeronautica for a heavy fighter bomber capable of a maximum speed of 530 km/h (329 mph)[3](more than that of any other aircraft existing or being planned at the time,[3]), armament of 20 mm cannons and range of 2,000 km (1,240 mi). It first flew in October 1936. The project was derived from the aborted Ba.75 also designed by Giuseppe Panzeri and Antonio Parano.

Well I would be grateful for any of these planes

[Batbomb]

Wasn't the Ba.88 was the biggest industrial failure in the history of military aviation?... "The Italian P-38" good joke!
I think we almost have all Italian planes that played an important role in the war, already in our Il-2. The transporter section could get some additions though... the SM.82 Canguro for instance.

[slejsa]

Very nice plane and great idea! Many of Italian aircrafts are in the Sturmovik missing...

[Tecnico66]

no..please Ba88 no,if you want model something Italian,do the Ca309/310,widely used in Lybia...a good patrol/reconance/liason aircraft..

[SAS~Malone]

guys, let's try and keep on topic with the requested plane, and not turn the thread into an 'anything Italian that flies' thread.....