Carro Armato L6/40

The Carro Armato L6/40 was a two-man Italian light tank used by the Italian Army from 1940 through the Second World War. Ansaldo designed it as an export product, and the army adopted it once officials learned of the design; the Fiat-Ansaldo partnership built it. A one-man turret carried a 20 mm Breda Model 35 gun with a coaxial 8 mm Breda 38 machine gun, riveted armour ran from 6 to 40 mm, and a four-cylinder SPA 180 engine of about 70 hp drove it. The name encodes the type: L stands for leggero, light, 6 for its approximate weight in tons and 40 for the year of adoption. It served in the Balkans, on the Eastern Front, in North Africa and in the defence of Sicily and Italy, and German and Croatian forces used examples as well. Its thin armour and light armament made it obsolete soon after it appeared.