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  2. MAS (motorboat) - Wikipedia

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    Camouflaged World War II MAS in the Mediterranean Sea. Motoscafo armato silurante (torpedo-armed motorboat), alternatively Motoscafo antisommergibili (anti-submarine motorboat) and commonly abbreviated as MAS, was a class of fast torpedo-armed vessels used by the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) during World War I and World War II.

  3. Decima Flottiglia MAS - Wikipedia

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    The Decima Flottiglia MAS (Decima Flottiglia Motoscafi Armati Siluranti, also known as La Decima or Xª MAS) (Italian for "10th Torpedo-Armed Motorboat Flotilla") was an Italian flotilla, with marines and commando frogman unit, of the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy). The acronym MAS also refers to various light torpedo boats used by the Regia ...

  4. CRDA 60 t motor torpedo boat - Wikipedia

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    The Motosilurante CRDA 60 t (also known as MS boat) was a type of motor torpedo boat built for the Regia Marina during World War II.It was designed on the pattern of German S-boats — some early examples of which were captured by the Italians from Yugoslav Navy — to complement the faster but less seaworthy MAS boats.

  5. List of torpedo cruisers of Italy - Wikipedia

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    In the aftermath of the Italian fleet's defeat at the Battle of Lissa in 1866, the Italian parliament drastically reduced naval budgets. [1] By the 1870s, the small budgets precluded the acquisition of a large battle fleet centered on new ironclads like the Duilio class then under construction, and so Admiral Simone Antonio Saint-Bon, then the Italian Minister of the Navy, ordered a small ...

  6. Quarta Flottiglia MAS - Wikipedia

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    The Italian MAS also acted as a flank force in support of army operations off Sevastopol and Novorossiysk and, despite their obvious vulnerability, they captured more than a thousand Soviet troops during the course of their campaigns. [5] The Flottiglia lost two torpedo boats and one midget submarine, all of them victims of bombing raids while ...

  7. Category:World War II torpedo boats of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italian torpedo boat Giacinto Carini; Italian destroyer Giacomo Medici; Italian torpedo boat Giacomo Medici; Italian destroyer Giovanni Acerbi; Italian destroyer Giuseppe Cesare Abba; Italian torpedo boat Giuseppe Cesare Abba; Italian destroyer Giuseppe Dezza; Italian torpedo boat Giuseppe Dezza; Italian destroyer Giuseppe La Farina

  8. MTSM motor torpedo boat - Wikipedia

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    The Italian plans for an assault motor torpedo boat, the MTS, began in December 1939. The Italian Naval Command goal was a small, high speed two-seat motor torpedo boat based on the Motoscafo da Turismo Modificato (MTM), itself an improved version of the MT motorboat which used an explosive charge as the warhead. In addition to speed ...

  9. VAS (motorboat) - Wikipedia

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    Vedetta anti sommergibile (anti-submarine picket boat), commonly abbreviated as VAS and also known in Italy as VAS Baglietto (from the name of the shipyard that designed VAS and built a number of them), was a class of motor torpedo boats that served as coastal anti-submarine patrol boats in the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) during World War II.