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    Motoscafo armato silurante (torpedo-armed motorboat), alternatively Motoscafo antisommergibili (anti-submarine motorboat) and commonly abbreviated as...
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    in two squadrons, a squadron of five Motor Torpedo Boats (MAS, Motoscafo Armato Silurante) and eight submarines in two squadrons. The main base was at...
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    it at Tripoli. Air cover, air reconnaissance and defensive MAS (Motoscafo armato silurante [torpedo-armed motorboat]) ambushes were planned to safeguard...
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    with them by some. Italian MTBs of this period were known as Motoscafo Armato Silurante ("MAS boats", torpedo-armed motorboats). French MTBs were known as...
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    Force H, was attacked by Italian submarines, aircraft and MAS boats (Motoscafo armato silurante, motor torpedo boats). Port Chalmers carried 250 members...
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  • commissioned in the Royal Italian Navy as MAS 1 D and MAS 2 D respectively, with MAS standing for Motoscafo Armato Silurante ('Torpedo Armed Motorboat') and the...
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  • "little war" using fast torpedo motorboats, Motoscafo armato silurante or MAS. A successful attack by MAS torpedo boats on the Austrian base at Trieste...
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    Submarine Secret Weapons, he also designed and updated the Motoscafo Armato Silurante (MAS), motorboats of between 20 and 30 tons displacement, with a...
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  • he worked with Bordoni in 1919 on the development of the Motoscafo Armato Silurante, a MAS-boot (torpedo boat). In 1923, together with Carlo Gianini...
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    after 7 May, the German KT 22, some Axis torpedo boats and MAS boats (Motoscafo armato silurante) were the only vessels to run the blockade. By the Axis...
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    the Regia Marina deployed four 24-ton torpedo motorboats (Motoscafo Armato Silurante, MAS), six CB-class midget submarines, five torpedo motorboats,...
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    torpedo. Oribi took the damaged freighter in tow. Italian Motoscafo armato silurante (MAS torpedo boats) deployed through the Strait of Messina, but...
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    CB class midget submarines, and a number of 35-ton coastal submarines and MAS boats. This force was the only Axis naval force deployed during the siege...
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    Lago Zuai, the auxiliary cruiser Ramb III, and four MAS motor torpedo boats (Motoscafo armato silurante, torpedo-armed motorboat). After diverting from the...
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    defence torpedo boats and a squadron of five first world war Motoscafo Armato Silurante (MAS, motor torpedo boats). The Flotilla had eight modern submarines...
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    (Royal Italian Navy), receiving designations MAS 3–8 D, with "MAS" standing for Motoscafo Armato Silurante (Torpedo Armed Motorboat) and the prefix D denoting...
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