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Vetterli-Freddi M1870/90/00
Colonel Gaspare Freddi’s model of 1900 rifle which was offered as a potential conversion system for any other country interested in the design.
At the same time however, Count Gaspare Cesare Freddi also had been modifying the Vetterli rifle, except his system would only extract the spent casing automatically, the soldier would have to rechamber it manually. Freddi, nevertheless, persevered as he would provide another rifle for testing in 1900 which was properly self-loading, using a long recoil system. He presented it as being able to chamber any cartridge and being able to adapt it to fit in any magazine-fed rifle of the time.
Cei-Rigotti, now a captain, submitted a new rendition of his rifle again to the Italian officials on the 13th of June 1900, this time around they weren’t so impressed as the gun quickly overheated while being fired at around 900 rounds per minute. In the same year, Cei-Rigotti was in talks with the British small arms committee over having one of their service rifles, at the time the Magazine Lee-Enfield, sent to the Glisenti small arms company to convert it to the Cei-Rigotti system. It is unclear if this conversion was ever done. However, he proceeded to present one of his standard rifles to be tested anyhow. The British found it to be highly inaccurate while being fired in full automatic and they had problems with the reliability of the firearm, as they were provided with faulty ammunition.
Other countries, like Russia and Austria-Hungary, also tested his rifle. Recently an M95 Mannlicher converted with Cei-Rigotti’s system was uncovered in Russia, it is unknown how it got there but it clearly shows the interest of the Austro-Hungarians in this new system. There have been reports of a Mosin-Nagant modification as well, but no pictures have surfaced. It was even tested in the Americas, where there have been reports of the Cei-Rigotti in Argentina and Brazil.
The 1st Libyan Division “Sibille” was a colonial division that served with 2nd Libyan Division “Pescatori” under the Italian flag. World War II Italian Army Unit. Created after the first world war mainly of Libyan soldiers and Italian officer. It fought in the Second Italo‑Abyssinian War before being reorganized on 1 March 1940 into the 1st and 2nd Libyan Divisions.
The first and second Libyan participated in the invasion of Egypt (Sept 1940.) attacking the city of Sollum a harbor village. only six months latter the unit was destroyed during Battle of Sidi Barrani during operation compass. A major African offensive of 150,000 men that captured 139,000 Axis soldiers at the loss of less then 2,000.
I know its a prototype weapon so is the tech tree b2 semi auto already in the game. This is a Italian made semi auto conversion created by one of the most first men to create fully automatic rifle. i would also like to add some color to the game just as they did when the colorized many WW2 films. The Libyan Division represents the European mindset when it came to many of there colonial allies. It be great at br2 as its a semi auto with 6 rounds in the magazine making it event or premium with a 9 man rifle platoon or a 5 man specialized engineer unit.
