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RN Eugenio di Savoia engaging enemy airplane with its battery of 37 mm/54 Breda Mod.32 (37 mm)

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 Eugenio di Savoia having a slightly longer reload time between firing each of the 6-round magazines, while the other ships using the gun enjoy an 0.3 second reload. 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)
Cannon		Sample Ship	Mount	Ammo	Reloading rate (s)	Below	Above	Horizontal	Vertical
	37 mm/54 Breda Mod.32	RN Eugenio di Savoia	Dual	1500	0.4	-10	80	17	13
	37 mm/54 Breda Mod.32	RN Trento	Dual	1500	0.3	-10	80	17	13
	37 mm/54 Breda Mod.38	RN Raimondo Montecuccoli	Dual	1500	0.4	-10	80	17	13
	37 mm/54 Breda Mod.38	RN Duca degli Abruzzi	Dual	1500	0.3	-10	80	17	13
	37 mm/54 Breda Mod.39	RN Attilio Regolo	Single	1500	0.4	-10	90	17	13
	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 xhip	Mount	Ammo	Reload time (s)	Vertical guidance (°)		Targeting speed (°/s)
Cannon		Sample xhip	Mount	Ammo	Reload time (s)	Below	Above	Horizontal	Vertical
	37 mm/54 Breda Mod.32	RN Eugenio di Savoia	Dual	1500	0.4	-10	80	17	13
	2pdr QF Mk.IIc (40 mm)	HMS Enterprise	Quad	2240	6	-10	75	13	13
	QF Mark VII (40 mm)	HMS Liverpool	Single	2000	0.4	-10	88	30	24
	37 mm/67 70-K	Krasny Krym	Single	2000	0.3	-5	85	17	13
	3.7 cm SK C/30 (37 mm)	Leipzig	Dual	2000	–	-10	85	17	13
	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 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. The 1932 version of the mount was the first one of the series, coming equipped with water-cooling (similarly to the pom-poms) and a dedicated single-axis mechanical stabilization system up to 10°. The gun was praised for its reliability, but it suffered from excessive vibrations that reduced long-range accuracy, which were not resolved until the introduction of the Mod. 1939 with an 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.

Media

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External links

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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