37 mm/54 Breda Mod.38 (37 mm)

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Two, twin-mount 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.38 engaging an enemy bomber from the RN Raimondo Montecuccoli

Description

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Vehicles equipped with this weapon

General info

Comparison of the 37 mm/54 Breda family, from the left: Mod.32, Mod.38, and finally a single-mount Mod.39.

The gun comes in a two different variants - the one on RN Raimondo Montecuccoli having a slightly longer reload time between firing each of the 6-round magazines. Comparing to the other guns in the family it trades lower vertical guidance for two guns per mount.

Cannon Sample Ship Mount Ammo Reloading rate (s) Vertical Guidance (°) Targeting speed
(°/s)
Below Above Horizontal Vertical
Kingdom Italy flag.png 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.32 RN Eugenio di Savoia Dual 1500 0.4 -10 80 17 13
Kingdom Italy flag.png 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.32 RN Trento Dual 1500 0.3 -10 80 17 13
Kingdom Italy flag.png 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.38 RN Raimondo Montecuccoli Dual 1500 0.4 -10 80 17 13
Kingdom Italy flag.png 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.38 RN Duca degli Abruzzi Dual 1500 0.3 -10 80 17 13
Kingdom Italy flag.png 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.39 RN Attilio Regolo Single 1500 0.4 -10 90 17 13
Kingdom Italy flag.png 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.39 RN Comandante Margottini Single 1500 0.3 -10 90 17 13

Available ammunition

The gun fires a high explosive shell, there is no specific belt configuration visible in the game. Typically one or two hits are more than enough to take down most of the airplanes.

Comparison with analogues

Comparatively speaking the gun has a good firepower, with about average guidance speed. The only disadvantage it has is in the vertical guidance, having a ±10° blind spot right above the ship.

Cannon Sample ship Mount Ammo Reload time (s) Vertical guidance (°) Targeting speed
(°/s)
Below Above Horizontal Vertical
Kingdom Italy flag.png 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.38 RN Raimondo Montecuccoli Dual 1500 0.4 -10 80 17 13
Britain flag.png 2pdr QF Mk.IIc (40 mm) HMS Enterprise Quad 2240 6 -10 75 13 13
Britain flag.png QF Mark VII (40 mm) HMS Liverpool Single 2000 0.4 -10 88 30 24
USSR flag.png 37 mm/67 70-K Krasny Krym Single 2000 0.3 -5 85 17 13
Germany flag.png 3.7 cm SK C/30 (37 mm) Leipzig Dual 2000 – -10 85 17 13
USA flag.png Bofors L/60 Mark 1 (40 mm) USS Cleveland Dual 2000 0.4 -15 88 26 20

Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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History

The Breda 37 mm/54 was a light anti-air gun developed in the early 1930s by the Italian company Breda. It was adopted as the standard light anti-air gun of the Italian army and navy, replacing the British pom-poms. The 37 mm/54 was a gas-operated autocannon that featured a selectable fire rate of 60, 90, or 120 rounds per minute, and was fed by a 6-round sequentially-loaded magazine, which allowed for a high sustained rate of fire. Both single- and dual-mount variants of the gun were built. In 1938, a version of the mount was developed which aimed to reduce the total weight of the system by discarding the roll stabilization system and the water-cooling, and instead using air-cooling. This reduced the total weight of the system from 5,000 kg to 4,300 kg. However, the gun suffered from excessive vibrations that reduced long-range accuracy, which were not resolved until the introduction of the Mod. 1939 equilibrator.

The standard ammunition used on the Breda 37/54 was contact high-explosive 37 x 232SR with a muzzle velocity of 800 m/s. The gun was capable of engaging targets up to 5,000 m altitude, or against naval targets at a maximum effective range of 4 km.

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Italy naval cannons
20 mm  20 mm/65 Breda · 20 mm/70 Oerlikon 3S · 20 mm/70 Scotti-Isotta Fraschini mod.1939
37 mm  37 mm/54 Breda Mod.32 · 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.38 · 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.39
40 mm  40 mm/39 Vickers-Terni mod.1915/1917 · 40 mm/39 Vickers-Terni mod.1915/1917, Modif.1930 · 40 mm/70 Breda-Bofors type 107
65 mm  65 mm/64 Ansaldo-Terni Mod.1939
76 mm  76 mm/40 Armstrong mod.1897/1910 · 76 mm/40 Armstrong mod.1897/1912 · 76 mm/40 Ansaldo mod.1917 · 76 mm/45 Schneider mod.1911 · 76 mm/50 Vickers mod.1909 · 76 mm/62 OTO-Melara Compact · 76-mm/62 SMP 3
90 mm  90 mm/50 Ansaldo model 1939
100 mm  100 mm/47 O.T.O. Mod. 1928 · 100 mm/47 O.T.O. Mod. 1937
120 mm  120 mm/45 Canet-Schneider-Armstrong mod.1918-19 · 120 mm/50 Armstrong model 1909 · 120 mm/45 O.T.O. Mod. 1926 · 120 mm/50 Ansaldo mod.1926 · 120 mm/50 O.T.O. Mod.1936
135 mm  135 mm/45 O.T.O. Mod. 1937
152 mm  152 mm/45 Schneider mod.1911 · 152/53 mm Ansaldo mod.1926 · 152/53 mm O.T.O. Mod.1929
203 mm  203 mm/50 Ansaldo mod.1924 · 203 mm/53 Ansaldo mod.1927
305 mm  305 mm/46 Armstrong model 1909 · 305 mm/46 Vickers model 1909
320 mm  320 mm/44 OTO model 1934 · 320 mm/44 Ansaldo model 1936
  Foreign:
20 mm  2 cm/65 Flakvierling 38 (Germany) · 20 mm/70 Oerlikon Mk.II (USA)
40 mm  Bofors L/60 Mark 1 (USA) · Bofors L/60 Mark 3 (USA)
76 mm  76 mm/50 Mk.33 (USA)
127 mm  127 mm/38 Mk.12 (USA)

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