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A German E-Boat, that was used as a commercial cargo vessel after the war ended, gets new life in service with the Marina Militare Italiana!
MC 485, torpedo boat, Italy, rank III. Premium.
Features:
- Armored bridge
- Enhanced weapons
- High speed
In 1952, during a small fleet rearmament program, Italy purchased a former German S-38 series torpedo boat, which was sold to a private owner in 1947 and used as a cargo boat. The boat was ordered in August 1940 from the shipyards of the Bremen based Lürssen company as an upgraded S-38 project equipped with an armored cabin casing (Kalotte). The E-Boat with a hull number S-67, was involved in intense actions for the Kriegsmarine in the North Sea, especially in the English Channel, where she was engaged in mining missions and hunting British convoys. The boat also visited the Baltic sea, where she took part in exercises and military operations against the USSR in the Gulf of Finland. At the end of the war, the S-67 was captured by the Allies and then sold to a commercial operator for cargo purposes. In Italian service the boat received updated armament of a pair of 40mm Bofors auto cannons, new torpedo equipment and a navigational radar. In service with the Marina Militare Italiana, the boat received the designation MC 485 and served in the waters of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas, participated in numerous exercises. The boat was finally decommissioned from service only in 1966 due to significant wear and tear, which affected the performance of the MC 485.
The MC 485 is a German E-Boat of the S-38 series, which in the post-war period entered service with the Marina Militare Italiana. The boat will become one of the main prizes of the next season of the War Thunder Battle Pass as a Premium torpedo boat of rank III in the Italian coastal fleet tech tree.
At first glance, you can see two main differences between the Italian boat and the German E-Boats - a high mast for a navigation radar and, most importantly, modified armament. The gun cockpit on the bow has been dismantled and changed to deck. The Italians replaced the German armament at the stern with a pair of 40 mm Bofors automatic cannons. Thus, on the one hand, the boat has somewhat lost combat effectiveness, since she can no longer fire forward, and on the other, the MC 485 broadside is dangerous not only for boats and aircraft, but even for small enemy ships.
Why do we love the E-Boats? Of course, for excellent maneuvering performance and ease of performing torpedo attacks. The MC 485 keeps with this tradition, although the torpedoes themselves are now different, as they were made in Italy. The boat quickly reaches a maximum speed of 39 knots (over 70 km/h) and is excellent for both capturing points and maneuvering among islands and rocks.
The Italian MC 485 will be one of the main prizes in the new season of the War Thunder Battle Pass. We will soon announce other prizes and the full list of rules, so stay tuned for the news!
Comments (42)
Comments will be premoderatedInteresting boat, but only 2 torpedos, and 2 (looks like old, slow, WW2 era) 40mms? That's not very convincing; possibly going to be a free kill, tough Italy could use a premium boat with some proper(ish) anti-ship armament. But do to I already unlocked all small boats in the Italian tree, it does not interests me, + its another S-boat.
lets hope this will be a great bp
Thank you so much! Hopefully this comes in Rank II or Rank III since Italy doesn't have a coastal premium except 1 in. Rank I and 3 in Rank 4. It's about time it got something that could be in the middle and unique. Huge +1 for adding to the anemic Italian coastal premium lineup.
It literally says rank III... And such a gap should be filled with a regular GE or pack prem that you can buy at any time, not a one-off BP reward. You can't treat event rewards as the same as regular prems...
Another Costal boat? Would have heavily preferred to have a low tier tank/plane.
Babe wake up, the new Battlepass boat got revealed
Lets see the snail says copy paste but change the flag. Unique in the sense it was used by the Italians as a commercial boat.
that's a good bp vehicle, not simply a copy/paste vehicle (unlike j24/f6 for sweden and france), and not unique enough to be missed in the TT.
Looks unique! I like that it has different modifications made to it and isn't exactly the same as the original.
Very happy to see this! I do wonder (with some trepidation) if Gaijin will make it another 2.7 according to relative stats within the Italian lineup, or more competitive with the other nations' 2.3 torpedo/gun broadside only vessels... Also, the Marina Militare was established in 1946, so this ship was not purchased by the Regia Marina.
Didn't we get practically the same ship last season?
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