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42 km/h (26 mph) road. The L6/40 was a light tank used by the Italian army from 1940 through World War II. [2] [3] It was designed by Ansaldo as an export product, and was adopted by the Italian Army when officials learned of the design and expressed interest. [3] It was the main tank employed by the Italian forces fighting on the Eastern Front ...
The first model produced for the Royal Army (Regio Esercito) was a local derivative of the French Renault FT, called FIAT 3000. These vehicles were ready in 1922, and served well to forge Italian interwar armored tactics. A variant developed in 1930, armed with the Vickers-Termi 37 mm (1.46 in) gun, named FIAT 3000B.
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion ( Amharic: ጣልያን ወረራ, romanized : Ṭalyan warära ), and in Italy as the ...
The 4th Tank Regiment ( Italian: 4° Reggimento Carri) is a tank regiment of the Italian Army based in Persano in Campania. Originally the regiment, like all Italian tank units, was part of the infantry, but since 1 June 1999 it is part of the cavalry. Operationally the regiment is assigned to the Bersaglieri Brigade "Garibaldi".
The Italian Co-belligerent Army fielded between 266,000 and 326,000 troops in the Italian Campaign, of whom 20,000 (later augmented to 50,000, though some sources place this number as high as 99,000) were combat troops and between 150,000 and 190,000 were auxiliary and support troops, along with 66,000 personnel involved with traffic control ...
A month before the signing of the pact, on April 7, 1939, Italy occupied Albania and conquered it in three days, suffering a total of 25 casualties and 97 wounded whilst inflicting 160 Albanian casualties. Italian troops and CV33 or 35 light tanks in Durrës, Albania, April 1939. Source: wikipedia.com.
A TKS tankette in the Polish Army Museum. A TKS tankette with a human for scale in a 2019 parade in Poland. A tankette is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle [1] that resembles a small tank, roughly the size of a car. It is mainly intended for light infantry support and scouting. [2] [3] Colloquially it may also simply mean a small tank.
