Use Breda Model 35

an as.42 of italian auto-saharan company mounted breda 20/65 m35.



a breda 20/65 m35 mounted main armament on italian ab 41 armored car. vehicle on left german sd.kfz 10/5 mounting 20 mm flak 38.

in addition use anti-aircraft gun, model 35 mounted main armament in several vehicles. fitted in 4 panzer converted during spanish civil war, nationalists, in effort improve fighting capability against soviet t-26s fielded republican forces. later gun fitted fiat l6/40 light tanks , ab 41 armoured cars.

after winter war had begun, finland bought total of 88 breda guns italy, last arriving during interim peace in june 1940. 5 of finnish bredas later lost in action during continuation war. in addition, 4 italian-built jymy class motor torpedo boats operated finnish navy each had 1 20 mm breda cannon on rear deck. finnish defence forces used 20 itk/35 breda, gun officially known in service, training weapon anti-aircraft crews several decades after end of world war ii. in 1985 there still 76 guns remaining in inventory, of these discarded later during decade.

in north africa, commonwealth forces captured large number of breda model 35s during operation compass, enabling australian 2/3 light anti-aircraft regiment, parts of 4th anti-aircraft brigade (which had total of 42 bredas in light anti-aircraft batteries during siege of tobruk) , 1 battery of 106th (lancashire hussars) regiment, rha equipped them.

captured bredas used long range desert group , aboard number of royal australian navy , royal navy vessels including hmas vendetta, hmas perth , hms ladybird, , @ least 1 marmon-herrington mk ii armoured car.

gunner r.k. bryant of 8th battery, australian 2/3 light anti-aircraft regiment, breda model 35 gun @ derna, libya, in march 1941. predictor sight , 12-round ammunition strip can seen in image.

during second sino-japanese war (world war 2 in china), chinese nationalist army soldiers used breda model 35 during battle of xinkou, shooting down 3 japanese planes. breda model 35 not used in anti-aircraft role used destroy japanese tanks , armored vehicles.