Bianchi Improvised Machine Gun Car. Royal Italian
Army, circa 1916.
During the Great War, a common practice, we found the samples in all armies, was to arm certain vehicles with machine guns.
These transformations improvised, whose aim was to get auto-propelling guns and machine guns were performed on both trucks and vans as on passenger cars.
They were quite common at the beginning of the Great War, especially during the mobility period, when used, preferably with direct fire to shoot the enemy troops. When stabilized fronts, some of these vehicles were used for indirect fire and especially for the antiaircraft fire, alongside other vehicles made specifically for this last mission.
This practice continued to exist after the Great War, in the successive conflicts that arose from it.
During the Great War, a common practice, we found the samples in all armies, was to arm certain vehicles with machine guns.
These transformations improvised, whose aim was to get auto-propelling guns and machine guns were performed on both trucks and vans as on passenger cars.
They were quite common at the beginning of the Great War, especially during the mobility period, when used, preferably with direct fire to shoot the enemy troops. When stabilized fronts, some of these vehicles were used for indirect fire and especially for the antiaircraft fire, alongside other vehicles made specifically for this last mission.
This practice continued to exist after the Great War, in the successive conflicts that arose from it.
Perhaps the most picturesque and paradoxical
vehicle derived from this practice -although
it had been previously used sporadically- was called
"Tachanka", hypomobile cart armed with a Maxim Machine Gun, which appeared on the battlefields of the East. During a period that
stretched from the Russian Civil War to the Soviet-Polish
War, meant a true tactical revolution in the war of movement, which developed
in the vast steppes of the East.
This Italian Bianchi car (Type
A, Model 1913,
four-cylinder, 2120 cc), belonging to the Italian Army, was armed with a Maxim Machine Gun
ready for anti-aircraft firing,
being another example of the importance
that day by day was
gaining the presence of
aviation on the battlefield.
It the consequent need to try to alleviate the serious and insidious damage caused by aviation, not only from fixed antiaircraft positions, too well known by the pilots, but from
anywhere unsuspected that might surprise
enemy aircraft, which was possible
thanks to mobility of vehicles
armed with cannons or machine guns.
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Autoametralladora Improvisada Bianchi.
Real Ejército Italiano, circa 1916.
Durante
la Gran Guerra, una práctica habitual, de la que encontramos muestras en todos
los ejércitos, fue la de armar determinados vehículos con ametralladoras.
Estas
transformaciones improvisadas, cuyo fin era conseguir autopropulsar cañones y
ametralladoras, fueron realizadas tanto sobre camiones y furgonetas como sobre
coches de pasajeros.
Fueron
bastante comunes al principio de la Gran Guerra, especialmente durante el período
de movilidad, cuando se utilizaban, preferentemente, para disparar con fuego
directo a las tropas enemigas. Cuando se estabilizaron los frentes, algunos de
estos vehículos se utilizaron para el fuego indirecto y especialmente para el
fuego antiaéreo, junto a otros vehículos realizados expresamente para esta
última misión.
Esta
práctica siguió existiendo después de la Gran Guerra, en los sucesivos
conflictos que se derivaron de ella.
Quizás
el vehículo más pintoresco y paradójico derivado de esta práctica -aunque ya
había sido utilizado anteriormente de
forma esporádica– fuera el denominado „Tachanka“, carro hipomóvil armado con
una ametralladora Maxim, que apareció en los campos de batalla del Este.
Durante un período que se extendió desde la Guerra Civil Rusa hasta la Guerra Ruso-Polaca,
significó una verdadera revolución táctica en la guerra de movimiento, la cual
se desarrollaba en las extensas estepas del Este.
Este
coche italiano Bianchi (Tipo A, Modelo 1913 de cuatro cilindros y 2120 c.c.),
perteneciente al Ejército Italiano, estaba armado con una ametralladora Maxim
dispuesta para el tiro antiaéreo, siendo otra muestra más de la importancia que
día a día iba cobrando la presencia de la aviación en los campos de batalla. De
ello la consecuente necesidad de intentar paliar los graves e insidiosos daños
producidos por la aviación, no solamente desde posiciones antiaéreas fijas,
harto conocidas por los pilotos, sino desde cualquier lugar insospechado que pudiera sorprender a la aviación enemiga, lo cual
era posible gracias a la movilidad de los vehículos armados con cañones o
ametralladoras.
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