Might sound silly but how do you ride that thing
Cheers Nick

Talk about some serious thunder between your legs !!!!!

Gingerly.

Looks as if it's based on one of those 'orrible scooter things, and as a biker I have to say that it would better with the scooter as a target !
As the largest producers of scooters were Vespa & Lambretta this wouldn't be Italian by any chance?

haha weird! Looks like you ride it by placing your backside on the gun barrel with the end protruding from your crotch at the front. I cant imagine its too comfortable. AS the rifle is recoilless, can the driver sit on the gun whilst it fires :-)

**VESPA of DOOM!!**

GOODNESS GRACIOUS GREAT BALLS ON FIRE!!!!!!!
:-) :-) :-) :-)

If you ride this thing could that mean you could be compensating for something???

Good One Luke!!
Bet this one would be even better than the video of the kid who tried to lauch a rocket from between his cheeks. OOOOCH!!!

Kind of redefines the term "Crotch Rocket" LOL

I wonder what my Harley could carry? I'll bet the State Troopers would find some reason to pull you over!

Gives a whole new meaning to "Packin' some heat" :-) No way in hell I'd even attempt to ride something like that. "Q"

I've often thought that you could mount a .50 calibre nicely in the angle between the cylinders of a big Guzzi V twin. Ammo feed may be a problem, but it would be just the job for dealing with Volvos.
The Italians seem to like this sort of thing, there were a couple of Guzzi's which mounted Breda machine guns of various types, one on the handlebars (!). Like the scooter(I suspect), you were supposed to stop before trying to use the weapon! I've also seen a British gadget which mounted a Thompson on a motorbike, but this was intended to use while riding!

If you think this is bad, think of the poor SOB on the support vehicle that has to ride on top of the ammo on his vespa.

It is a Vespa, but a French conversion

Vespa TAP

In French.

Handy if there are Chelsea Tractors about

CRaZy! It looks like something the NVA or VC would have used during Vietnam, but is it a 57 or 75 mm Rifle?

Chris

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See the photo below on the cover... and here is the text;

After World War II, there was little money for defense spending while the nations of Europe rebuilt their industry and society. When there was some cash to spend, one had to be creative to stretch it as far as possible. The French probably accomplished the most astounding example of that with the ACMA Troupes Aeról Portées Mle. 56. Deployed with their airborne forces, this was essentially a militarized Vespa scooter outfitted with a 75mm recoilless rifle. Five parachutes would carry the two-man gun crew, weapon, ammunition, and two scooters safely to earth, and the men would load the weapon on one scooter and the ammo on the other, then ride away. More impressively, the recoilless rifle could be fired effectively on the move by the best of the gun crews. Total cost? About $500 for the scooter and the recoilless rifle was war surplus. Were they successful military machines? Well, the French Army deployed about 800 armed scooters in wars conducted in both Algeria and Indochina.