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    Italian 12.7x81SR

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    This cartridge was introduced in the late 1930s for heavy aircraft machine guns and remained in service until the end of WWII. Italy, Britain, Spain, Hungary and Japan used variants of this 12.7mm cartridge, with the original being the British .50 Vickers V/565. The Italian and Japanese cartridges were interchangeable but not with the British version. The Japanese copied their cartridge from the Italians and initially used Italian ammunition supplies.

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    Italian 12.7x81SR

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    This cartridge was introduced in the late 1930s for heavy aircraft machine guns and remained in service until the end of WWII. Italy, Britain, Spain, Hungary and Japan used variants of this 12.7mm cartridge, with the original being the British .50 Vickers V/565. The Italian and Japanese cartridges were interchangeable but not with the British version. The Japanese copied their cartridge from the Italians and initially used Italian ammunition supplies.

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    This cartridge was introduced in the late 1930s for heavy aircraft machine guns and remained in service until the end of WWII. Italy, Britain, Spain, Hungary and Japan used variants of this 12.7mm cartridge, with the original being the British .50 Vickers V/565. The Italian and Japanese cartridges were interchangeable but not with the British version. The Japanese copied their cartridge from the Italians and initially used Italian ammunition supplies.

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    Italian 12.7x81SR

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    This cartridge was introduced in the late 1930s for heavy aircraft machine guns and remained in service until the end of WWII. Italy, Britain, Spain, Hungary and Japan used variants of this 12.7mm cartridge, with the original being the British .50 Vickers V/565. The Italian and Japanese cartridges were interchangeable but not with the British version. The Japanese copied their cartridge from the Italians and initially used Italian ammunition supplies.

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    This cartridge was introduced in the late 1930s for heavy aircraft machine guns and it remained in

    service until the end of WWII. Italy, Spain, Hungary and Japan used it and Britain manufactured it
    for export. The original cartridge was the British .50 Vickers V/565. The Italian and Japanese
    cartridges were interchangeable but the British version isn’t interchangeable with any other
    12.7mm.

    The Japanese copied this cartridge from the Italians and their original ammunition supplies were
    Italian.

    19.55 mm
    13.05 mm

    80.9 mm

    ITALIAN VARIATIONS.

    This cartridge was used in a BREDA aircraft machine gun.

    Tracer with red tip


    Armour piercing with green tip
    Armour piercing/ Tracer/ Incendiary. Stepped boattail projectile with white tip.
    Armour piercing/ Incendiary with red tip and red primer annulus.
    Incendiary/ Tracer with blue painted projectile.
    Observation two piece projectile with blue tip.
    Explosive fuzed projectile with red tip.
    Explosive/Tracer/Incendiary fuzed projectile with yellow painted projectile.

    12.7 x 81SR Italian H.E/I fuzed


    version.
    12.7 x 81SR Italian. Top Armour Piercing, bottom Armour Piercing Incendiary
    Tracer.

    Italian HE. Marked Italian Armour


    with “S” for Scoppianti Piercing.

    Italian HE/I. Italian


    API/T
    COLOUR CODES USED ON ITALIAN
    12.7x81SR

    AP

    INC
    (PHOS)

    TRACER

    AP/I

    INC/T
    (THERMITE)

    INC/T
    (THERMITE)

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