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

Period: 2nd World War

Country: Italy

Model Dim.: 25 cm

SM.81 PIPISTRELLO

The Savoia Marchetti SM 81 started solution inside bombing products the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) over the middle for this 1930’s. It operated into the campaign in Ethiopia, in the Spanish Civil War and during World War II. It had three machines with low wings and a group undercarriage. It had been propelled by 3 Alfa Romeo 125 RC 35 devices with 650 Hp each, or, successively, by stronger Piaggio P. X RC.35 700 Hp machines which brought it to a maximum cost of 340 Km/h. Armed with 6 7.7 mm Breda-Safat device tools, it had an offensive payload of 2,000 kg in bombs. During its entry running, it had been really modern bombers in the world, however in the start of World War II, during those times exceeded, it had been predominantly useful for nighttime missions. Because of this reason it had been nicknamed “bat”. However over 300 SM 81’s ready the Regia Aeronautica squadrons on different fronts, from Aegean liquid to North Africa.