Credits:

First, I would like to thank the following people who helped immensely
Ash007 – who helped me get the tracks mod working properly
Strucker – who helped me make a nice bear claw decal

And most importantly…
Kenneth – who helped me take the wonderful photos I used
Desert Map in works by Kenneth

Please help me get this out there! I worked really hard on this: my first high end build

History

The Proggetto P. 75 Mod. 51 Serpente was a medium tank created for the Italian military. The project began around 1965 and continued to 1975, when modern tanks started making regular steel armor, no matter the thickness, obsolete. The designers of the tank attempted to keep the project afloat by upgrading the 105mm gun to an autoloaded 120mm gun (made by Czechoslovakian company Skoda) and by increasing the top speed to about 50 kph (with a BMW 1000hp engine) as well as increasing its armor and adding mesh armor. However, the project was scrapped, along with the prototypes.

Performance

The tank's performance was quite poor regarding traverse, though it had good turret rotation speed, gun depression, fire rate, and top speed, allowing it to operate fairly well from Italy’s mountainous terrain. These features were achieved using a fairly compact oscillating turret that allowed the designers to stack a fair amount of armor on the turret front, and a whole autoloader system that could move up and down.

Controls

WASD/roll-pitch for turning and movement
Yaw for turret rotate
VTOL for gun elevation/depression
V/Flares for smoke
Fire guns/spacebar for machine gun

Versions

836 parts

600 parts

451 parts

226 parts

Simple Stats

Engine - BMW H-29 V14 1000-D
Top forward speed – 51kph
Top reverse speed – 22kph

Armement - Skoda B-5 120 mm vz 27
30 rounds AP – Velocity 1450 m/s
15 rounds HE – Velocity 650 m/s
One 12mm heavy machine gun
Gun depression – 14 degrees
Gun elevation – 15 degrees

Armor is maraging steel
Turret (mm): 225/60/60
Hull (mm): 140/65/25
Hull and turret front and sides surrounded by mesh

Shooting Gallery (spot the pun about the gun)

Enjoy!