Italian 7.7mm Breda-SAFAT (infantry)

[Valkay]

Hello bajtàrsak and fellow forumdwellers,

The Breda-SAFAT is Italy´s best machine gun of the second world war, a weapon based on the M1919 and was originally designed as a stationary machine gun or as fixed armament for aircraft.
These machine guns were chambered in 12.7x81mmSR as well as 7.7x56mmR.
However during the war it became clear that the standard Italian light machine gun, the Breda 30 was insufficient for prolonged and reliable fire support, to fill this gap 7.7mm Breda-SAFAT machine guns were converted to infantry use.
Though heavy and bulky like the M1919A6, the Breda-SAFAT did offer excellent fire support thanks to its high fire rate (800-900 rpm) and belt fed feed system.

Considering its characteristics, its obviously a BR5 weapon and should be added to the Italian subtree.

[Willcario]

what would the ammo capacity be?

[VINICIUS_LAG]

50, 100 or 150

[Willcario]

hmm, 50 or 100 rounds would make it too similar to the MG42 drum and beltfed if this gun has ~900 rof, and 150 rounds would probably be too much for the tech tree

[Valkay]

@Willcario

what would the ammo capacity be?

100 rounds of ammo similar to the M1919A6 and MG42 100, since the purpose of the machine gun is to give Italy a domestic weapon in BR5.

[c4qph2]

[Patton1998]

For those interested, here is a document with all the measurements of the 7.7 and 12.7

There are various versions of the SAFAT on the ground

[Patton1998]

I would also like to see the successor to the Breda 30, the Terni machine gun which solved many of the Breda’s problems.

[Naohmcete]

cool event thing or premium