The concept behind the AS42 “Sahariana” appeared in the minds of Italian designers in 1942, when the famous British and Commonwealth Long Range Desert Group... https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/italy/Camioneta_AS-42_Sahariana?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=camionetta-spa-viberti-as42
Camionetta SPA-Viberti AS42

Italy (1942 - 1954) Reconnaissance Car - ~200 built The concept behind the AS42 "Sahariana"

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... with their distinctive heavily-armed and unarmored long-range vehicles, were breaking far behind Axis lines, creating havoc in refilling bases or airfields. At the same time, their large-scale reconnaissance tasks were very valuable to Allied intelligence.
The Regio Esercito (Italian Royal Army) tried to emulate these units by using a project that SPA-Viberti had proposed a year before based on the chassis of the AB41 armored car, itself derived from the chassis of the Fiat-SPA TM40 medium artillery tractor.
An article by Arturo Giusti
Illustrated by David Bocquele
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