Italeri 1283 - 1/72 SM.81 Pipistrello WWII  [IT-1283S]

Period: 2nd World War

Nation: Italy

Model Dim.: 25 cm

SM.81 PIPISTRELLO

The Savoia Marchetti SM 81 began solution inside bombing products and services the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) through the center due to this 1930’s. It operated into the campaign in Ethiopia, into the Spanish Civil War and during World War II. It had three products with low wings and friends undercarriage. It turned out propelled by 3 Alfa Romeo 125 RC 35 items with 650 Hp each, or, successively, by more powerful Piaggio P. X RC.35 700 Hp products which brought it to a maximum price of 340 Km/h. Armed with 6 7.7 mm Breda-Safat product tools, it had an offensive payload of 2,000 kg in bombs. During its entry running, it proved really contemporary bombers on the planet, in the beginning of World War II, during those times surpassed, it had been predominantly useful for nighttime missions. As a result of this explanation it had been nicknamed “bat”. None the less over 300 SM 81’s prepared the Regia Aeronautica squadrons on different fronts, from Aegean liquid to North Africa.