Talk:Italian torpedo boat Pegaso (1936)

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Armaments

"Between 1940 and 1941 Pegaso, along with her sister ships, has undergone a refit during which eight 13.2 mm anti-aircraft machine guns have been replaced by eight 20 mm Breda Model 35 anti-aircraft guns."

Now, i understand there's a link citing a source for this, but just use your eyes:

There are several very good photographs of Pegaso taken during early 1942 (wearing her new splinter camouflage, with pre-autumn white ends to the scheme) and for the life me I cannot see where those 20mm cannon are. Now, the Breda 20mm twin mounting had a very distinctive diagonal offset arrangement between the two barrels, visible in profile at some distance and even in pooroer-quality images of Italian torpedinieri of WW2. But the images of Pegaso seem to show the side-by-side heavy machine-gun mountings in the aft centreline and forward beam locations, while they definitively show the original 8mm M37 machine-guns in the amidships location.

Other sources indicate that the four ships of the Orsa class were refitted individually at various points during the conflict (the RM could hardly afford to take an entire ASW flotilla out of commission during the Battle of North Africa for a matching light AA overhaul) and it would appear that some craft received 20mm guns during the period 1941-42, while others did not. Pegaso would appear not to have received such an upgrade by early 1942.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTx_2FfiaUY/WdN1kTb67VI/AAAAAAAAIkY/LEZ4-zktQh4_Pf5DFyMJ6_3hqm1agNmUgCEwYBhgL/s1600/Pegaso%2Bnel%2B1939%2B%2528Coll%2BE%2BBagnasco%2Bda%2BMussolini%2527s%2BNavy%2529.JPG

Pegaso early in the war, with original AA MG armament; twin 13.2mm guns are seen as single-barreled units in profile due to side-by-side mountings; two single 8mm guns are clearly visible amidships.

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Port & Starboard views of Pegaso in early 1942 camouflage; clearly visible once again are side-by-side twin 13.2mm MG mountings - unreplaced by twin 20mm mounts at this date - and the single 8mm MGs still amidships, although the latter have been repositioned by this point and are no longer echeloned. 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:CC8D:ECA2:2547:FD1F (talk) 21:11, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]