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Latest revision as of 20:57, 11 March 2023
Contents
Description
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The 12.7 mm Breda-SAFAT is an Italian all-purpose heavy machine gun. Modified from the Breda-SAFAT (7.7 mm) adapted to the 12.7x81 mmSR ammunition for better firepower.
In the game, the 12.7 mm Breda-SAFAT equips the majority of Italian Interwar and WWII aircraft.
Vehicles equipped with this weapon
General info
Tell us about the tactical and technical characteristics of the cannon or machine gun.
Available ammunition
- Aerial
| Penetration statistics | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | ||||||
| 10 m | 100 m | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 2,000 m | ||
| T | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ball | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| AP | 21 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | |
| I | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| HEF | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| AP-I | 20 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | |
| API-T | 21 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | |
| Shell details | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (m) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g) |
Ricochet | ||||||
| 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
| T | 760 | 0.04 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| Ball | 760 | 0.03 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| AP | 760 | 0.04 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| I | 760 | 0.03 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| HEF | 760 | 0.04 | 0 | 0.25 | 1.02 | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| AP-I | 760 | 0.03 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| API-T | 760 | 0.04 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
- Naval
- Universal: AP-T · AI · Ball · IAI
- Incendiary: I · API-T · I · IAI
- AP belt: AP-T · AP · API-T · AP
| Penetration statistics | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | ||||||
| 10 m | 100 m | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 2,000 m | ||
| IAI | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| AP-T | 21 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 8 | |
| Ball | 19 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 6 | |
| AI | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| API-T | 21 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 8 | |
| I | 20 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 8 | |
| AP | 21 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 8 | |
| Shell details | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (m) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g) |
Ricochet | ||||||
| 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
| IAI | 760 | 0.04 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| AP-T | 760 | 0.04 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| Ball | 760 | 0.03 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| AI | 760 | 0.04 | 0 | 3 | 1.02 | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| API-T | 760 | 0.04 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| I | 760 | 0.03 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
| AP | 760 | 0.04 | - | - | - | 47° | 56° | 65° | ||||
Comparison with analogues
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Usage in battles
This gun is the staple of Italian aircraft weapons from rank I through to rank IV. Nearly all aircraft- that is, all aircraft save for the foreign premiums and the Ju 87 variants, have at least two of these guns. It is often equipped with other guns as well. While good at lower BRs and ranks, starting at rank III/BR 3.7, these guns begin to lose their effectiveness and destructive power. Fortunately, usually Italian planes starting from that BR are equipped with MG151/20s as either wing-mounted or centre-mounted Motorkanone to provide sufficient damage output.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- IAI (explosive) bullets
- Early-game API-T Tracer belts
- Air Targets belts
- Comes on planes with absolutely stunning performance, with playstyles comparable to rank III Spitfires
- Usually centre-mounted on the engine cowling, just like MG 131s
- Shreds through aircraft parts and modules if you aim precisely
- Relatively accurate
- Good early-game damage, especially in reserves, where belts of air targets and tracer simply shred through other biplanes, soft ground targets and reserves
Cons:
- Anaemic performance upwards of rank III.
- Low rate of fire compared to contemporary .50-calibre guns (700 rounds per minute, as opposed to 750 rounds per minute on early M2s, 768 on late-game M2s, 798 on Berezin's and 900 on MG131s and Ho-103s)
- Lower muzzle velocity compared to contemporary guns
- Damage becomes punctual beginning at higher ranks
History
In the 1930s the Italian Regio Aeronautica (Italian Air Force) ordered the development of new machine guns for Italian fighters and bombers. The government ordered two companies of Breda and SAFAT to build their machine guns for the competition which had the Breda design based on the Browning won their favor. SAFAT's parent company FIAT attempted to contest the decision, but lost their dispute lead to SAFAT getting merged with Breda to create the arms designer Breda-SAFAT. The original guns were chambered for .303 British, but the company soon made a variant chambered in 12.7x81mmSR following the trend of heavy machine gun cartridges used by other nations. The short-recoil Breda-SAFAT was intended to be equal or superior to contemporary machine guns. It was liked by Italian pilots for its long range and hitting power and armorers for its reliability, but it was heavy, had a low muzzle a modest rate of fire of 700 rounds per minute compare the 1,000 rpm used on contemporary weapons from other nations, and the High-Explosive-Incendiary-Tracer ammunition was ineffective. In addition, the Italians did not develop their own 20mm cannon instead purchasing German MG 151 cannons to mount on their Macchi C. 205 Veltro, FIAT G.55 Centauro, and Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario fighters. While adequate for 1935, the Italian fighter armament of two 12.7mm Breda-SAFATs occasionally complimented by two Breda-SAFAT 7.7mm machine guns was well obsolete by 1940. However, almost every fighter and bomber used by the Regio Aeronautica under Mussolini would be armed with these two calibres of machines and the design survived into the 1970s as a anti-aircraft gun most notably in Syria.
Media
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See also
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External links
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- other literature.
| Aircraft machine guns | |
|---|---|
| USA | |
| 7.62 mm | Browning · M134 Minigun |
| 12.7 mm | GAU-19 · M2 Browning · M3 Browning |
| Germany | |
| 7.62 mm | MG3 |
| 7.92 mm | MG 15 · MG 17 · MG 81 |
| 12.7 mm | FN M3P |
| 13 mm | MG 131 |
| USSR | |
| 7.62 mm | DA · GShG-7.62 · PKT · PV-1 · ShKAS |
| 12.7 mm | A-12.7 · Berezin UB · TKB-481 · YaK-B |
| Britain | |
| 7.62 mm | FN 60.30 · L8A1 |
| 7.7 mm | Browning · Lewis · Vickers E · Vickers K |
| Japan | |
| 7.7 mm | Te-1 · Type 89 · Type 89 'special' · Type 92 · Type 97 navy |
| 7.92 mm | Type 1 · Type 98 |
| 12.7 mm | Ho-103 · Ho-104 |
| 13 mm | Type 2 |
| 13.2 mm | Type 3 |
| China | |
| 12.7 mm | QJK99-12.7-1 |
| Italy | |
| 7.7 mm | Breda-SAFAT · Lewis |
| 7.92 mm | FN Browning |
| 12.7 mm | Breda-SAFAT · FN M3M · Scotti |
| France | |
| 7.5 mm | Darne 1933 · Fabrique Nationale Mle 38 · FN Browning · MAC 1934 · MAC 1934T · Mle 33 · Mle 1923 |
| 7.62 mm | PKA |
| 7.92 mm | FN-Browning M.36 No.3 · FN-Browning M.36 No.4 |
| Sweden | |
| 7.7 mm | FN-Browning M.36 No.3 |
| 8 mm | Ksp m/22 · Ksp m/22 Fh · Ksp m/22 Fv · Ksp m/22-37 R |
| 12.7 mm | Akan m/39A · Akan m/40 · Akan m/45 · LKk/42 |
| 13.2 mm | Akan m/39 · Akan m/39A |
| Naval machine guns | |
|---|---|
| USA | |
| 7.62 mm | M73 |
| 12.7 mm | AN-M2 |
| Germany | |
| 7.62 mm | MG-3 |
| 7.92 mm | MG08 pattern 1908 · MG15 · MG34 |
| 13.2 mm | Hotchkiss |
| 15 mm | MG M38(t) |
| USSR | |
| 7.62 mm | Maxim |
| 12.7 mm | DShK |
| 14.5 mm | KPV |
| Britain | |
| 7.62 mm | FN MAG |
| 7.7 mm | Lewis 1916 · Vickers GO No.5 |
| 12.7 mm | Vickers Mk.V |
| Japan | |
| 6.5 mm | Maxim · Type 38 pattern 1907 |
| 7.7 mm | Type 89 · Type 92 |
| 13.2 mm | Type 93 |
| Italy | |
| 6.5 mm | Breda Mod.30 · Fiat Model 26 |
| 12.7 mm | Breda-SAFAT |
| 13.2 mm | Breda Model 31 |
| France | |
| 7.7 mm | Darne M1922 |
| 7.92 mm | Hotchkiss pattern 1914 |
| 13.2 mm | Browning · Model 1929 Hotchkiss |
