The Vespa 150 TAP was an anti-tank scooter made in the 1950s from a Vespa scooter for use with French paratroops (troupes aéroportées, TAP). Introduced in 1956 and updated in 1959, the scooter was produced by Ateliers de Construction de Motocycles et Automobiles (ACMA), the licensed assembler of Vespas in France at the time. [ 1 ]

2024年12月4日 · Key Points: The Vespa 150 TAP, a French military adaptation of the iconic scooter, was an inventive solution for post-WWII urban and airborne combat. Designed for French paratroopers in 1956, this “anti-tank scooter” featured a 75mm M20 recoilless rifle mounted on a reinforced Vespa frame.

2023年7月31日 · The Piaggio Vespa TAP [Troupes AéroPortées] (English: Airborne troops) 56 and 59 were French-developed military motorbikes, based on the iconic Vespa, Italy’s most famous two-wheeler. The Vespa TAP carried a US M20 75 mm recoilless rifle with the aim of countering enemy light armored vehicles with an agile and robust vehicle that could be ...

2024年10月28日 · Somehow, the French decided that attaching the giant gun to a tiny little Vespa was a perfectly sensible thing to do. The designation “TAP 150” is short for “Truppe Aero Portate,” or airborne troops. The giant gun is a surplus American M20 recoilless rifle, which the French had in great supply at the time.

2023年2月14日 · Equipped with a huge M50 rifle and parachute-dropped onto the battlefield, this French-built military Vespa is the craziest scooter you'll ever see

2020年11月30日 · The gun could fire smoke, high-explosive, and HEAT anti-tank rounds that were advertised as capable of punching through nearly 4 inches of armor at 7,000 yards.

2017年4月18日 · The Vespa was supposed to serve only as a transport method for the cannon, although it was possible to fire the gun while mounted on the scooter. This artillery was not very useful against the tanks in the Indochine conflict but proved itself as quite useful against lightly armored targets in the Algerian War.

2022年9月24日 · Vespa 150 TAP is a simple civilian Vespa scooter with a rifled 75 mm M20 anti-tank cannon. Although Vespa is an Italian brand, the military version of the scooter was produced in France by Ateliers de Construction de Motocycles et d’Automobiles (ACMA), Vespa’s licensed dealer in France.

2024年1月25日 · We’ve reviewed more than one peculiar weapon here, someones even extravagant. Today we’ll continue in that line with the Vespa 150 TAP which, as you can deduce from its name, was a scooter but unheard of, as it had an incorporated anti-tank cannon; that’s why it was also known as the Vespa Bazooka.

2024年1月11日 · The Vespa 150 TAP idea was innovative, a scooter equipped with an anti-tank weapon that could be deployed rapidly in airborne operations. Piaggio collaborated with the French company ACMA (Ateliers de Construction de Motocycles et d’Automobiles) to modify the Vespa 150, creating a vehicle that was both compact and potent.