Italian Republic (1949-Mid-1950s) Light Tank – Unknown Number Operated The Light Tank M3, produced by the United States starting in 1941, was delivered to the Esercito Italiano (English: Italian Army) in the late 1940s. The Esercito Italiano, having been reconstituted after the previous Regio...
Kingdom of Italy/German Reich/Italian Social Republic/Italian Partisans/Italian Republic (1944-1951) Scout Car – 128~250 Built When the Second World War broke out, the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) was not equipped with a fast and lightly armored scout car. After the ...
A link between the Army and the Navy similar to the U.S. Marine Corps was provided by the San Marco Marine Regiment. This independent command was organized in battalions that served as assault units or, on the coast, as anti-invasion detachments. Ranks in the San Marco Regiment correspond ...
ROME, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta on Saturday sought to defuse reports of disarray within government ranks over the escalation of violence in Libya. The eastern-based military forces led by Khalifa Haftar launched a military opera...
Cadorna wascommissioneda second lieutenant in the Italian army in 1868. Rising through the ranks, he was appointed chief of the Italiangeneral staffin July 1914. When Italy entered World War I by declaring war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915, Cadorna was given command on the Austro-Italian ...
The Spartan phalanx, a tightly packed formation of heavily armed hoplites, was an unstoppable force. Within its ranks, every warrior, regardless of social standing, fought as one. At the Battle of Thermopylae, a small band of Spartans held off a massive Persian army, showcasing their ...
The Birth of theCanon de 25 mm The company Hotchkiss started developing a new tank gun during the First World War. By the time the project was completed in 1920, the war had ended and it was subsequently abandoned. Later in the 1920s, the French Army needed to replace theCanon d’Infan...
Kingdom of Italy (1940-At Least 1954) Medium Tank – 710 Built The Carro Armato M13/40 was an Italian medium tank used with mixed results by the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) from 1940 to 1943 in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Italian peninsula. The tank was ...
German Reich (1943-1945) Self-Propelled Assault Gun – 123 Captured and 55 Built After the Armistice the Regno d’Italia (English: Kingdom of Italy) had signed with the Allied forces on 8th September 1943 was made public, what was left of the Italian war industry and armament of the ...