So, while I was sitting and staring at the walls of an insane asylum for the last 3 1/2 weeks; it occured to me how Italian tankettes could have been completely repurposed during ww2 to be very useful.

Basically, the tank remains unchanged for one minor change, the addition of a forward mounted morter, cooling water, and box of ammo. Repurposing dozens of tanks, in such a manner, allows for the rapid deloyment of closein antipersonal artillery in a massed with dozens of tanks in a single location, allowing either breakthroughs where infanty are entrenched or to break up infantry advances, all at minimal risk to the tankettes and their crews; all while allowing the repurposing of equipment that would otherwise be obsolete, to become equipment that can completely change a tactical picture, allowing either breakthrough or defense, before rapidly moving to another location, enmass.

Thoughts?

>>63924352 (OP)
>So, while I was sitting and staring at the walls of an insane asylum for the last 3 1/2 weeks

Think I've found the problem here...

Why are you free to walk among the public?

>>63924352 (OP)
you are over 80 years too late

>>63924352 (OP)
The tankette, based on the bren gun carrier, could have excelled as an infantry support vehicle but the problem was the italians sucked at combined arms. So they would just throw these things at enemy tanks.

Useless things werent even proofed for desert warfare

>>63924352 (OP)
>So, while I was sitting and staring at the walls of an insane asylum for the last 3 1/2 weeks
is there like an opposite of burying the lede? where information is given and then quickly left behind despite being way more interesting than that which follows?

>>63924352 (OP)
Why not literally do the exact same but with horses?

>>63925207
There is a name for it "Glancing off the gold". Not sure what that came from.

>>63925301
Fuck the lunatic, you guys should look at my wood art.

>>63925379
I bought a laser but idk what to make with it.

Speaking of Italian conversions

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>>63924352 (OP)
>So, while I was sitting and staring at the walls of an insane asylum for the last 3 1/2 weeks; it occured to me how Italian tankettes could have been completely repurposed during ww2 to be very useful.
Least schizophrenic Italian weapons designer

>>63925379
Nice

>>63924352 (OP)
>So, while I was sitting and staring at the walls of an insane asylum for the last 3 1/2 weeks
When do you start at Beretta?

>>63925189
Somehow everyone the Br*t*sh sold on this concept had massive struggles with it

>>63924352 (OP)
It's been done. What you really need to do is to add Recoilless Rifles a La Ontos.

>>63928496
You mean Bri*ish?

>>63924352 (OP)
>a forward mounted mortar

A tiny mortar carrier cum Assault Gun for that time period does sound interesting (especially with the PIAT in mind and later war shape charge munitions)-- particularly for paratroopers + say, Schwimmwagens. Early to mid-war before Bazookas and Panzerfaust become ubiquitous, they'd add some extra heavy weapons umf. I suppose they would be deployed with line infantry (Siege of Tobruk) in swarms with the idea of being too small and fast to engage as point targets by fixed AT guns in creeping dispersed assault groups (sort of as in current day Ukraine), with proper Tank overwatch for suppression.


>cooling water, and box of ammo

Perhaps small enough to be vexatious to engage by ground attack aircraft as well-- having trailers with supplies to service heavily engaged units as mules.