The Italian Tank Meme
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
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What tank buff doesn't like Tanks encyclopedia LOL
Somebody touched my L3/35
Now make a video about the hungarian ones pls!
I'll be completely honest: You should have reviewed the Girls Und Panzer OVA vs Anzio (Italians) episode for this to be even funnier!
Hey just to ask? Have you even seen the crazy tanks the Russians used. The two craziest ones I could think of are the zis 30 and the SMK. You should take a look and maybe make a series about meme tanks from all the major nations during the war.
I'm Italian, according to my grandfather those tanks in Africa were used mostly to fry eggs. The desert sun made the armor hot as a grill.
bruh
that's quite unlikely, because italian army had no fucking eggs during that time and just 0,5L per person everyday.
@@giontesla2311 what about the lucky egg you find in some village? U never know
@@KA-vs7nl cmon man they had been fighting in nothing but empty plains of sand!
@@giontesla2311 lol tru I'm fantasizing what I'd want lmao
Jesus, imagine being a young Italian man who enlists with the promise of glory and conquest and they stick you in a go-kart with sheet metal riveted on...
No no no, it also had a bb gun
Its Mario Kart you dumb dumb
Yes the tankettes were not tanks.
But in a mechanised infantry scope it seems quite useful.
Rather than your machine gunners advancing at the speed of foot, they're advancing at the speed of tank.
As much as people talk about tanks, the war was still mostly guys shooting at each other.
Although certainly you wouldn't want to use a tankette in urban fighting, that's just suicide.
Matteo OoO Every time is quite an exageration, there had been some very profitable ones xD
But hey, it helps in protecting agaisnt some bullets.
Italians: we need an 8 ton light tank
Germans: Did you say 80 tons?
Italy:Did i stutter?
Germany: If it's under 70 tons it's not even a tank
@@waffles6280 Italy:In italy it does
@@unlucky_2nd897 Germany: Well in Germany it does not
Italy: I'll stack up 10 of em...will that be ok?
I would use that tiny Italian tank as a car. I will drive it to school everyday
You and I both. It deals with bullies well too
@@miat9039 ah yes, I how could I forget
@@miat9039 or they just take the tank and throw it away🤣🤣🤣
@@theempireofthepeople yeah alot could happen if they are one to many
Easy for you to say it
Italian tanks did not need escape hatches. When the tank was hit, the rivets popped creating an escape hatch
It was worse than that actually.
The improperly hardened plating on their tanks regularly cracked on impact and probably fell off the rivets. 😅
You're a funny guy! You should start your own comedy channel...what are you waiting for.
Horrendous fact no. 1. Italian tanks were engulfed in flames or exploded on impact against mainly American supplied tanks to limeys. So if it were your grandfather in a similar tank it would be a genius joke? Dickhead!
@@KeyboredCoward hahahahah..dafuq?
R u an Italian...?
@@kozmokramer7398 Text in English please, dafuq? Am I Italian? One hundred percent.
@@kozmokramer7398 Ofcourse he is Italian, isn't it obvious? His YT profile name is literally representing the Italian military in WW2
"I can take Greece"
-someone who cannot take Greece
I appreciated that.
Kinda like "I'm a stable genius'"-someone who is not a stable genius.
Even the Germans had a hard time invading Greece even though they attacked with their elite troops.
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INVADE GREECE NOW
FOR THE ITALY!
Orangefan makes it weird considering they even designed their tanks FOR mountain combat. Yet still couldn’t win like Jesus. Makes ya wonder tho if German tank designers came in to help with improving or reshaping Italian concepts before the war broke out.
A ctionMS they took Greece in like two weeks with paratroopers. I ain’t saying it was a breeze but calling it a hard time is bit of a stretch.
So, this is why you don't try to build Rome in a day.
are you challenging me?.
Shaggy meme.jpg
@@vektor_z7208 Do you challenge the greatest meme ever created?
Rome wasn’t built in a day but it was burned down in one day
@@Blackwolf-of5kx ooof
Germanic tribes 1, Romans 0
Home defeat.
The actual Roman Empire could've made more progress than these guys in Africa.
You guys do know that guns can penetrate armor right? Watch the anime called GATE where basically a magical roman empire goes against guns and tanks
Edit: FINALLY A FELLOW REDDITOR WHO USED r/wooosh
@@Waftey r/whooosh
It's a joke but the people in the army from gate were terrified. Lol
@@Waftey You mean JDF propaganda: the anime?
@@lordmuhehe4605 I assure you citizen, an army will do no warcrime during an occupation
Our Tanks are trash but our food is Good.
Change my mind.
I don't think anyone argued otherwise
I see Tanya has good taste in food
Nowhere Man Yeah i like The White Flag too.
Anzack Still waiting for season 2
Well i tried your pizzas and are horrible only argentina has good pizzas
Tanks in many other countries:
Well armored
Powerful guns
Italian tanks:
Armored Taxis
Hahahaha😑😑
cant even call it armored , we have italian tanks with holes that you can walk in to to the inside here in Libyan museum of the tank made by horse riders using hand made primitive anti armor rilfes that use cages made from mud , copper and TNT , run pass the tank on a horse faster then its turret an turn , hit it from the side with it , the rifle cage would break as it should to be replaced with a hand made mud cage , and the shell would blast the armor , mind you this is not a fancy shell just a copper sledge with TNT to poke the armor and cirsone to ignite inside , that is it xD
@Sith Master the Italians story in the Libyan war
italy : lets make an ambush here
Libyans : play reverse card
Italy : tey are ambushing our ambush ! run ! leave your ammunition behind !
Ariete C1
I mean, I'd buy them if possible in the future.
According to Major-General F. W. von Mellenthin, author of Panzer Battles, Rommel was very fond of the Italian infantry. If I remember correctly he said that with good leadership they preformed very well. It was the Italian leadership that Rommel hated.
I can only imagine how much faster the Africa front would have collapsed if Rommel had been pragmatic enough to switch sides. He seemed to view things in a very level headed way, shame he chose to stick with the Third Reich.
A lot of capable leader were never promoted because they weren't loyal to Mussolini but the King/State so only butt-licker were valued
@@bloodlustshiva1 Rommel is a nazi though, close friend of Hitler and once led his personal bodyguards. The only reason he would be spared is to write more Wehrmacht apologia
my great uncle fought at El Alamein, he only had good words for Rommel. tho it seems most people do anyway.
@@3dcomrade He started out as a Nazi. He then quickly reassessed his political views as he saw that Hitler steadily drove the country to disaster. Rommel was involved in the Stauffenberg assassination attempt after all. The Nazis made him commit suicide (first, they needed him as a hero figure instead of a traitor, second, he wanted to spare the lives of his family).
Armchair: tries to be professional and gets good animater
Potential history: *MeMeS*
Meifun Foo He’s for sure a good animator, but professional? Are you kidding me? He always talk about a nation with the help of retarder stereothypes and stupid comments, especially for Italy, and Jesus Christ, most of the information it takes are from Wikipedia!
@@davidfox2056 you need to take a massive chill pill
@@davidfox2056 1. italy was bad in ww2 lol. cope. they lost even when they had major strategical advantages and the only times they were actually effective were when they invaded british somaliland and when they helped invade yugoslavia.
2. his comments and stereotypes and stuff are how he tries to make history interesting and funny, and he does a good job at it.
3. wikipedia is a reliable source because any incorrect info or errors are corrected within seconds.
He has a boomer name, come on, it's obvius he doesn't like Wikipedia.
And Potential is still more informational than Armchair these days, especially since Armchair's main activity nowadays is explaining the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese XD
My Greek grandfather fought the Italians with the Greek Army in the Albanian front and in many instances he served as a guard to Italian POWs. He never, ever spoke bad or condescendingly about them!!! On the contrary, he deeply respected them and would always refer to them as brave and skilled soldiers! But he also said that they were very poorly led, there was a great, unbridgable chasm between the officers and the rank-and-file and mutual hatred and loathing. The average Italian soldier was a farmer or a blue collar worker/craftsman while the officers were usually members of old aristocratic or upper class families, something like the Prussian elite of the Wermacht! Also the Italian soldiers never wanted their country and army to be involved in a great war of major powers and combining that with the mistreatment and disrespect they received from their superior officers, they were understandably unmotivated and had low overall morale. But my grandfather said that they were simple, good-hearted folks who never wanted to fight the Greeks and just wanted to go back to their homes and families and leave all this shit behind...
What up fam my grand-grandfather was a general in the front
Dad was in the Yugoslav army and was stationed at the Albanian border when the Italians attacked Albania. People would run at full speed and fall into the tank trap and craweled on to the Yugoslav side all bloodied but they were safe.
Thanks...
Greece was Pro-Axis until Italy dropped a bowl of spaghetti and decided Greece was "Roman" territory
@@TheNordicHeathen Greece was by no means pro-Axis!!! Although the Metaxas ' dictatorial regime shared many similarities with Italian Fascism ( but not German National Socialism, as there was no racial supremacist component in it), both Metaxas and the King strived to keep Greece in good terms with Britain, which had a powerful Navy! Metaxas in particular was desperate to keep Greece neutral and since Hitler wasn't interested in attacking Greece as long as it didn't enter the war in the Allied side, he might have succeeded! But Mussolini had showed his intentions against Greece ever since the Corfu incident in 1923 and it became clear that he would eventually attack after the torpedoing and sinking of the Greek light cruiser " Elli" on the 15th of August 1940! Even during the Italian attack, Metaxas didn't actively seek British help, so as not to provoke a German intervention, but that became inevitable after Mussolini 's defeat in the Albanian front. So no Greece was never pro-Axis, it kept a neutral stance before the Italian attack despite previous Italian open provocations and hostilities and only accepted some limited Commonwealth help after the Nazi intervention.
Italian tank: *doesnt have footage*
Potential history: Take some anime
What's the name of that anime?
The Eternal Superstar * Girls und panzer
@@Izuku_Midoriya-oi2cx Omg, that's hilarious! : )
Izuku _Midoriya9025 dI mOlTo
jojo ref-
what are you talking about? Girl Und Panzer is a perfectly reasonable historical source
*sees a L3/33 silhouette in the distance*
"great. Another one of those shitty italian ta-"
*L3/33 spews twenty foot flame jet into the window of a nearby building sending a platoon of melting soldiers running into the night wailing as their skin falls off*
...
"oh"
See, it's better because rather than shooting small olives, it shoots hot spaghetti sauce at the enemy.
Jesse GD LMAO
@@jessegd6306 There is no such thing as spaghetti sauce
@@jessegd6306 If you ain't italian, you can't understand how fucking hot the tomato sauce is. Legends says that It's so hot that can melt your tounge
pug fleet get rekt
Benito approves
"I don't think the italian army deserves it as they get it"
In times like these is good to hear some good words about us :'(
Mama Mia we a still a standing in a Rome as shadow.
WW2 Italy is like WW2 France: a great Nation that made some really poor tactical decisions.
Hey, you guys made some fantastic airplanes during the war (and still do).
You still make really cool cars? I guess. Also the best food imo
Remember how Italy lost against Ethiopia the first time? They were a meme well before ww2
Okay, I think it takes balls to go up against a Sherman or a Grant in something like an M13/40.
Schwatvogel or god forbid, a Patton.
infact the Ariete division did it during the desperate retreat of the Italian/Afrikakorps armies,and it was totally annhilated. Still they inflicted lots of damages to the british tanks even thanks to the Folgore division,and infact the allies never broke the italian positions during El-Alamein,only the german ones. And nope,it's not patriotic or fascist propaganda,you can find these infos even on the british reports.
Dark Star Im calling hax
@@LockheedRep Hes actually right.
David Tuttle ik that it happened, just making a joke
When the British, your enemy, contributed more to your tank designs than your immediate allies.
-Sad phagetti noises😓
- Happy tea noises?
@@jamaphy8621 *reasonable happy colonisation noises*
If there’s one country that deserves to be ridiculed, its Austria. They once fought their own army and lost.
*Karansebes intensifies*
@john smith I believe you meant to comment on the thread above this guy
Its like that one Spiderman meme
Well how would you fight your own army and win?
But if you fight yourself you will both win and lose (AKA France with Vichy vs De Gaulle)
I love how the thesis of this video boiled down to "Mussolini was the worst".
As an italian I say, this is the absolute truth, both politically and strategically speaking
Mussolini was a politician. Not a military commander
Politician was a Mussolini. Not commander a military
Italy was not ready, it is clear. it came from years of very expensive war in Ethiopia and Spain and the money that had to be destined to advance the mechanical department of the army in 5 years was instead diverted to the wars in progress. when the 2nd World War broke out, Italy was at least 5 years behind precisely with technologies and these prototypes, the only ones that Italy had created until then were produced in the absence of anything else. everyone advised Mussolini against entering the war but the promise of a quick war and easy territories did not make him think correctly. after 300,000 dead men and 3 years of war and 1 of civil war, Mussolini was captured by the partisans, shot and then hanged in the square. a wrong war in which no one believed in Italy and which only brought damage. Italy was not ready and if there had been a more democratic government this war would not have seen the entry of an Italy that needed years and years to catch up with the other European powers. Not to mention the Italian warships that fought without radar against the British ones that had it and also had espionage systems that knew every move without our knowledge. wars are also won on the field but first of all to win a war you must have prepared it well and we were very far from being ready. hence the phrase of curchill that Italians go to war as one goes to a football match. the Italian soldier was however the most heroic and patriot of all. wars are won if the people believe in them and the country is ready. see Russia against an insignificant state compared to her. it is losing because the people do not believe in it and the Russians were not ready to meet resistance on a par with that of a Nato army, I thought I was going to meet old Soviet tanks. the topic is long but the history of Italian tanks has its own reasons and, in addition to making people laugh, it should first of all make people think.
HEY!
He's trying, okay?
You know it's bad when your WWII tank can actually be disabled by an anti-tank rifle or a heavy machine gun.
To be fair thats how you had to kill the early war armour. There was no rockets or anything. Just AT rifles, grenades and maybe a HMG like a Browning 50 cal
Most early war light tanks could be stopped by at rifles and .50 mg's.
@@nannerthepuss One of the reasons Germans made Tiger I was constant danger of Soviet AT rifles which could disable earlier panzers pretty easily.
You only need to knock out the optics with one, then the crew is "blind". With few exceptions, most early war tanks were vulnerable to anti-tank rifles.
@@pathdaly in most tanks optics can be removed from inside and aim cannon through open barrel.
the Italians used their industry building battleships, a prestige unit. and THEY were pretty decent. (construction wise, not in terms of strategic use)
Italy's navy was actually good but it was used poorly most of the time
The Italian Planes watching their ships:
*"ENEMY SPOTTED!"*
I am not even KIDDING.. It happened.
Though improperly used, the Littorios were quite capable vessels, from what I understand. They seem about on par with any other nations capital ships(Bismark, KGV, Richelieu, etc)
@@blackberet9997
The Littorios would, in theory, manage to slug it out with their contemporaries, however, the lack of RADAR-assisted range-finding, along with incompetent Admirals would mean that the Littorios would get lolstomped by pretty much every other Capital Ship it fights.
Ye, the Iatlian Navy was actually pretty good, shipwise.
Also the Airforce was quite decent, at least capable.
But the Problems wasnt the Ships or Planes, it was the Italians
_reads title_
This is EXACTLY why I subscribed and donated to you.
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During the Second Battle of El Alamein the Ariete armoured division was tasked to defend the withdrawal of the army. On 4 November at about 15:30, the few surviving tanks were surrounded by an overwhelmingly superior enemy, and general Arena, the division's commander, broadcast this message:
"Enemy tanks broke through south of Ariete Division. Thus, Ariete surrounded, located 5 kilometers north-west of Bir-el-Abd. Ariete tanks are fighting."
- Ariete Division's last radio message
the Ariete and i think Litorio divisions were bloody supermen. holding out with what they had for as long as they did. those men deserve every ounze of respect you can give them
Italy was not ready, it is clear. it came from years of very expensive war in Ethiopia and Spain and the money that had to be destined to advance the mechanical department of the army in 5 years was instead diverted to the wars in progress. when the 2nd World War broke out, Italy was at least 5 years behind precisely with technologies and these prototypes, the only ones that Italy had created until then were produced in the absence of anything else. everyone advised Mussolini against entering the war but the promise of a quick war and easy territories did not make him think correctly. after 300,000 dead men and 3 years of war and 1 of civil war, Mussolini was captured by the partisans, shot and then hanged in the square. a wrong war in which no one believed in Italy and which only brought damage. Italy was not ready and if there had been a more democratic government this war would not have seen the entry of an Italy that needed years and years to catch up with the other European powers. Not to mention the Italian warships that fought without radar against the British ones that had it and also had espionage systems that knew every move without our knowledge. wars are also won on the field but first of all to win a war you must have prepared it well and we were very far from being ready. hence the phrase of curchill that Italians go to war as one goes to a football match. the Italian soldier was however the most heroic and patriot of all. wars are won if the people believe in them and the country is ready. see Russia against an insignificant state compared to her. it is losing because the people do not believe in it and the Russians were not ready to meet resistance on a par with that of a Nato army, I thought I was going to meet old Soviet tanks. the topic is long but the history of Italian tanks has its own reasons and, in addition to making people laugh, it should first of all make people think.
How about an F for any poor bastard who had to crew any Italian tank?
F
F
F
F
*SMASH THAT F*
F F
Yes he did not look at my chin measurements
I did
Say 'spaghetti'.
@@GreenGoblinCoryintheHouse mom spaghetti
@@chrisari101 he's nervous
Forse erano meglio i savoia
Also Italy has almost no iron or heavy metal ores at all, while German has that siderous behemoth that is the Ruhr basin
Do you mean "siderous behemoth" in the sense of highly productive motor of the national economy?
@@Leguan-tj9uj no, as "large amounts of ferrous mineral ore to extract"
When I was a child, I spen hours creating big tanks with cardboard and wooden boxes, putting me inside of them and pretending I was a tankist. That tanks looked more menacing that the one in 3:21
Italian high command wants to know your location.
That incredibles part at the start was way too good hahaha, great vid as always! I'm also gonna check out the Armchair Historian he seems cool
Real_Rex how do I know you are the real captain Rex?
7:28 even with the catholic church buffs couldn't improve their tank stats.
Lol!
shoulda went for hp buffs not speed
They should've researched a different tech three instead of going full Vatican mode.
Thank God for that priest. The fascists thought he was buffing the tanks against physical attacks. He was really buffing them against demonic possession. Did any Italian tanks get possessed by demons in World War 2? Thought not. :D
Yeah, a defense buff by 1.10 is no use if the base-stat is 0 lmao
At least Italian navy seemed very capable.
The Italian navy had some good designs on paper, but in reality their potential effectiveness was limited by a lack of radar, fuel, sailing range, as well as non-existent night combat training, and poorly manufactured munitions... to say nothing of the leadership issues the navy, like the Italian armed forces in general, faced. At the end of the day the Italian navy was built to compete with the French navy with the intent of securing the Mediterranean sea for Italy and was wholly inadequate to perform any other task. They lacked the range and seaworthiness to operate anywhere other than the Mediterranean and lacked the numbers and resources to take on any other major navy such as Britain or the USA even if they could. Once France fell, the Italian Navy lost the one foe they were built to take on and found themselves shoehorned into convoy defense and attack duties, which they never really found success in as they proved incapable of keeping the Axis North African campaign supplied and, at the same time, were unable to prevent supplies from reaching the Allies in North Africa.
**battle of taranto intensifies**
*SEEMED*
They had a possibility of being strong but most of their ships were very outdated
Because they fought on a big lake ^^
I actually like the concept of those little tankettes. Give a decent armor to stop small arms and machine gun bullets, a good suspension and steering, twin MGs, and a reliable engine that can give them a decent speed. Get a group of 5 or 6 together, and you could make a fair anti infantry vehicle/ scouting vehicle. It would probably be rather cheap to produce, and could get cranked out quickly. Use speed and mobility to be its best defense. If they come across anything stronger than regular infantry, then its time to scoot.
That was the first intended role. But it was used to face stronger opponents like armoured cars, other tanks and entrenched infantry
The panzer 1 and the Matilda 1 were pretty useless. yet noone seems to rubbish those. Also that Aussie tank that was so shit it couldnt be used the Sentinel
@@JohnSmith-rw8uh AS i RECALL SAME WITH aMERICAN TANKS UNTIL THE m3
@@thecommentaryking This is one of the biggest recurring military failures: trying to use something for a task it was never equipped for
Italy: *Invades Greece
Greece: *Fights back
Mussolini: *,,You weren't supposed to do that !!''*
THE GREEKS AND ALBANIANS KICK THE ITALIANS ASS IF IT WOULDN'T HAD BEEN FOR THE GERMANS THE GREEKS WOULD HAD INVADED ROME
@@PanzerLehr88 ...ALBANIANS?.....HAHAHAHA...ALBANIANS HELPED THE ITALIANS...SOUTH ALBANIA HAD AND HAS A GREEK MAJORITY POPULATION.
@@PanzerLehr88 On the other side the regular Albanian army had 15,000 poorly equipped troops who had been trained by Italian officers. King Zog's plan was to mount a resistance in the mountains, leaving the ports and main cities undefended; but Italian agents placed in Albania as military instructors sabotaged this plan. The Albanians discovered that artillery pieces had been disabled and there was no ammunition.[citation needed] As a consequence, the main resistance was offered by the Royal Albanian Gendarmerie and small groups of patriots.The Royal Albanian Navy stationed in Durrës consisted of four patrol boats (each armed with a machine gun) and a coastal battery with four 75 mm guns, the latter also being involved in the fighting.[20] Mujo Ulqinaku, the commander of the patrol boat Tiranë, used his machine gun to kill and wound many Italian troops until himself being killed by an artillery shell from an Italian warship.[20][21] Eventually, a large number of light tanks were unloaded from the Italian ships. After that, resistance began to crumble, and within five hours the Italians had captured the city.[22]
By 1:30 pm on the first day, all Albanian ports were in Italian hands. That same day King Zog, his wife, Queen Geraldine Apponyi, and their infant son Leka fled to Greece, taking with them part of the gold reserves of the Albanian Central Bank. On hearing the news, an angry mob attacked the prisons, liberated the prisoners and sacked the King's residence. At 9:30 am on April 8, Italian troops entered Tirana and quickly captured all government buildings. Italian columns of soldiers then marched to Shkodër, Fier and Elbasan. Shkodër surrendered in the evening after 12 hours of fighting. On April 12, the Albanian parliament voted to depose Zog and unite the nation with Italy "in personal union" by offering the Albanian crown to Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III.[24] The parliament elected Albania's largest landowner, Shefqet Vërlaci, as Prime Minister. Vërlaci served as interim head of state for five days until Victor Emmanuel III formally accepted the Albanian crown in a ceremony at the Quirinale palace in Rome. Victor Emmanuel III appointed Francesco Jacomoni di San Savino, a former ambassador to Albania, to represent him in Albania as "Lieutenant-General of the King" (effectively a viceroy).
In general the Italian invasion was poorly planned, badly executed and succeeded only because Albanian resistance was worse. As Fillipo Anfuso, Count Ciano's chief assistant sarcastically commenced "...if only the Albanians had possessed a well-armed fire-brigade, they could have driven us into the Adriatic".[25][26][27]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_Albania
Man this is the funniest comment
@@PanzerLehr88 no they wouldnt have you moron. In fact, if Italy and Greece kept fighting and Germany didnt invade, Italy would've won because Greece wouldve ran out of soldiers and supplies while Italy had much more reserves and supplies.
Italy gets the short stick a lot when looking at WW2, I'd almost say as bad as France does. Many people don't acknowledge Italy's desperate economic needs or its lack of proper infrastructure when considering its performance, which is why I'm glad to see that you took a more holistic approach to it.
Every morning, Italy's soldiers would wake up, grab their outdated equipment, salute their shitty leaders, and then march into battle like any other solider, fighting on despite how outgunned they were. That's bravery.
Spaghetti Time a quote from Rommel I think goes something like “Italy has failed the Berglaseri”
@@looinrims dunno if you're referring to "bersaglieri" or if that berglaseri is something i've never heard of before but actually exists.
Ares Walker I might’ve spelled it wrong
@@looinrims Alright then, no big deal. Was just curious since i'm italian and i've never heard that name before.
That's not bravery, that is stupidity
What, bolting together tanks instead of welding them is not a good idea? Dios mio
love me maiku-san
Yeah mein gött
MikeGoesBoom Well the British also bolted tanks until 1943. During that time Italy was also trying mix of bolting and welding.
Hey I know you from somewhere.
Its a very advanced startegy you can always use the italian tanks as cluster bombs
"It's not fair to laugh at them; they joined a massive war despite being poor, industrially backward, and having terrible leadership."
That's exactly why it's fair to laugh at them.
They followed a facist, and he lead them to ruin.
Perfect justification to point, laugh, and shoot.
Bthsr71 bruh. As a russian I thought many times what led german soldiers, young men die for nazi ideals.
"Oh yeah they were all nazis" I thought when I was 15
"They were brainwashed" I thought in my 18
But later on I started thinking "What other choice do you have living under such regime?".
They were humans like you or like me. And they're being told by their leader "go and fight!".
Protests you say? Not gonna happen. Protestants were gonna get killed for their opinion and that's all.
So it's the thing even now. If out contry leaders and all these politicians will say "we're going to war", you will shoot at me. And I'll probably wil shoot at you (I wish that'll never happen).
Because I think only 10-20% were madmen. Brainwashed, willing to fight for glory. Others had no choice.
Great Holocopy agree completely with you, just wanted to point out it’s protestors not Protestants, pardon me if I m being obnoxious
Joaquín Elorrieta thanks, I still have many things to learn in english
@@LaserTractor They might not have felt there was a choice, but what choice did you have? Fight the fascists or die.
"I can take take greece"-Mussolini
Greeks: *LET'S PUT AN END TO THIS DUDE'S CAREER*
nah we where like "come and get us then"
Mussolini: You can't just defeat Italy
Greece: *Hits blunt* I am about to give the Allies their first win
@@machineboot6748 Africa tho
*Greeks: Let's put an end to this Duce's career
Should be molon labe
when you started the italian tree in war thunder out of a joke and then find out that they are actually darn good
i would say they are pretty buffed, i havent tried them, but out of tier 2 i dont think they can be useful, (from what i ve seen)
@@hugoporras14 youll get recked till 4.something but then suddendly when you got the breda, the bredagun on tracks and the r3 hohoho then the fun beginns and when you then even unlock the secret gem of the tree (l3 tree, the final one of those small tanks, it finally got ARMOR that actually does a great job, almost like a little kv1 and a gun that basically oneshots 80%of what you encounter and has suprisingly less drop off) you will suddendly be in heaven later on you will become true glascannons with the recoilless gunns that actually do work. Then later on you meet the otomatic ... It is rated as an aa, i really cant support that, it should be classified as tankdestroy... No tankraper with over 300mm pen and abbout 0.3secs reload time, an abrams syndrome tank later (romor) youll encounter the best round ingame with their final tank.
It really feels as if they get to pay back for what they had to live trough till 4.3
@@Em.P14 I also started the italian tree (but because I'm italian myself :P) and they are pretty good thanks endeed.
Love the Italian stuff in war thunder, but it's no fun to meet a T34 😂
Well you are tiered with something resembling your equals
The Italian solders were capable fighters but give poor logistics, inferior weapons, poor leadership the outcome is clear. If they had been properly equipped and lead the results would have been significantly different...
Fun2 Drive the soldiers also couldn’t care less about the war, unlike the german soldiers Who felt like they fought all the things they has been indoctrinated into, like the embarresment of ww1, avenging their veteran fathers/grandfathers, achieving lost land and lebensraum, while the Italian soldiers had to fight for the re-conquering of a an empire that fell 1200 years before them..
Not that it justifies anything but their morale was without a doubt shittier than that of the Germans.
But they weren't. And they lost.
Preußen Adler
The MAB was a great sub machine gun sure, but it lacked anything really noteworthy other than just being a pretty solid SMG. I’d give to either the Owen SMG, PPSH-41, or even the ZK-383. Probably the Owen though.
Not to mention the MAB was very expensive and could not be produced in anywhere NEAR the numbers they would’ve needed.
Rommel summed up the measure of Italian soldiers when he described the Bersaglieri (Italian light infantry): "The German soldier has astonished the world; the Italian Bersagliere has astonished the German soldier"
@@joejohnson8789 The only thing the Italian army and navy needed was a white flag. Bloody useless the lot of them along with the French. They can always collaborate and then switch sides and wave a white flag.
The ones who did all the major fighting and showed real courage were the British, Americans, Germans, and Russians.
Italy: Our tanks are a disaster
Japan: Hold my Sake
Japanese tanks were more capable than the Italian ones
Dettlaff van der Eretein they look funky tho
@@oldfridge5059 japan be like:alright here is a milk truck and a 1000000000000000000 mm gustav cannon
Except the Japanese were actually decent. They were just outdated by the time the war started
*sad Chi-Nu Type 5 noices *
As an Italian, this was absolutely hilarious. And also thanks for putting that perspective at the end.
I’m Italian as well and I love laughing at Italy’s military incompetence
Well, for most of history we did quite good militarly, including present time, that said, our WWII performance is just hilarious
if the Italian wars didn't happen, we wuold have been like france, exept the surrnderring, maybe
@@red36825924 someones angery
Nice english....
Hey Potential History! Great video, I think we arrived at a very similar conclusion about why Italy performed so poorly during the second world war.
Griff
The Armchair Historian, what would your thoughts be if I suggested that one of the reasons why Italian troops did so poorly was because Germany was supposed to be backing them and supplying the Italian army, which was either not done or not done well. This caused a severe lack of enthusiasm to fight as well as the fact that many Italian soldiers hated Musollini for dragging them into a war. This caused many soldiers to surrender to enemy lines (particularly in Africa) where they were treated better? Just out of curiosity.
I feel like Potential History didn’t actually go into the psychology of the soldiers to say why their combat numbers where lacking to say the least especially after highlighting the number of troops captured in Africa. Which I get this video is supposed to be “meme tanks” but he doesn’t explain in enough detail to say why Italy performed so poorly. Which the reasons provided do work its just this isn’t really all the factors.
SearingRouge8 It probably also didn't help that Rommel stole trucks and supplies (like water) from his Italian divisions in order to allow his own German divisions to escape, leaving his 'allies' immobile and at the mercy of Allied forces.
Phoenix jz, i would have done the same lol.
Why the fuck i would let the weaker army in this entire world war escape and let your best unit die or get captured ?
Phoenix jz Rommel wasn't in charge of the Italians. The Italians were supposed to be supplying him though.
Let him take a moment to read a wikipedia page first.
You dumbass.
Germany: *Produces good tanks*
Japan: *Produces good warships*
Italy: *RAVIOLI RAVIOLI GIVE ME YOUR TANK FORMUIOLI*
Italy: *Produces good planes*
Italy: we taught entire world to live. Included you, idiot!
Italy also produced some very good quality warships, but they lacked air cover most of the time, had no aircraft carriers, and they lacked radar for night fighting....those were major disadvantages when fighting the Royal Navy.....and they also faced critical fuel shortages which greatly limited their operations. They did not lack well designed warships.
@@thecommentaryking *produces good raviolis
@@battlequestvalley2416 , you are right. The tiger was expensive, hard to build, hard to drive and hard to maintain. The soviet T-34 was much better.
Polish Tankietka sees CV-33
Finaly a worthy oponent out battle will be legendary
I'm offensive and I find this very Italian
lol
I see
Tf is your profile?
fuzzy generic weeb. They're allowed to make funny jokes, but remember that no matter what, their opinion is totally worthless
Hahaha
Maybe the Italians designed there tanks thinking that they where gonna fight in small narrow streets and in mountains. If you look it from that perspective there tanks where not that terrible.
It is like comparing the Sherman to a T34 or a Panzer IV. Those tanks where designed for different roles.
The Americans want a tank that could be used on all fronts. So it needed to be able to be usefull in Okinawa, the desert... so it Sherman is a tank who can do all, but not a specialist to fight in any of these terrains.
The Soviets designed there tanks to be used in an open steppe in hot and extreme cold. That is why there profile tends to be lower (harder to hit in an open field) ....
If you are going to use a tank in a terrain it was not designed for it will fail. When the Germans used Tiger II in the ardennes in 1944 is was a flop. The Tiger was simply not build to fight in a forrest with narrow roads.
When people compare Abrams tank to a T90, T14 or Leopard they make the mistake of thinking that they where designed with the same idea in mind.
Where as for Russia mobility is far more important than in western designs, because they need to protect a bigger country and need to be able to move there tanks from one side of the country to the other in a short time. heavy tanks of 65+ tons won't do the job.
You make a lot of sense
@Mitsi Grabblerberg Yes. In WW2 there where tanks used on mountain passes (Italian front). In Afghanistan the Soviets used tanks and IFVs on mountain roads. Maybe look it up.
All very true, except for the Russian mobility point. For large distances, tanks were transported by rail, and then weight would be a more relevant metric.
Russians focused on mobility because their doctrine involved surrounding and cutting the enemy forces from supply - i.e. they prepared precisely for the large-scale encirclements that their huge flat country allowed for
@@elsasslotharingen7507 You are correct. But the weight is relevant when you need to construct bridges and pontoon bridges. Also a lower weight helps when you need to get through heavy mud. Ask the whermacht. In WW2 a US pontoon bridge got distroyed when US soldiers tried to transport a captured tiger tank over such a bridge. It is also claimed that Germans lost tigers in France simply because they could not retreat there heavy tanks over some brigdes.
@James Harding I never claimed that they are used to climb mount evererst. What I tried to say that Italians (1930's and 40's design) could have kept there tanks smaller/lighter so they could be used on narrow mountain roads in the apeninne mountains in Italy or similar terrain.
if youd read about Erin Rommels invasion of egypt, 75% of his armor was italian. and at his last push, out of his 12 remaining tanks, six were italian.
And that's why Montgomery defeated Rommel in Africa.
Britiish have order to not stay in battle against Semovente 75/18
When Romel run away leave the Italian tanks divisions Ariete and Littorio faced to UK and USA
imagine what rommel would have done if it was all later generation german panzers or if he had more tanks instead of fighting loopsided 1200 vs 200 battles
Classic wwii mentality: if the axis does something good, always praise the Germans, if they fail is the Italians fault. A bit unrealistic
things that the italians had that were good.......250,000 rifles. all only had one good scratch.
Actual Italian tanks, like medium tanks, were pretty good. But people seem to not realize that 'Italian tanks' are often actually tankettes which were designed for Alpine warfare, as Italian high command anticipated any future war would mostly be involved on the French border, where there are vast mountains... Not that hard to understand
As someone that loves Learning about history, these videos are fucking great keep up the great work.
Just pressing F for the guy who had to crew one of these in 1944
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0:42 there's a priest giving his blessing to the tanks and their crews. Even the church knew it wasn't going to be a success! 😀
They dont even have a prayer
@Walter K Bauer
Somebody toucha my spaghetti?! 🍝
It is so funny to realize that these are the same people who gained control of one of the biggest most powerful empires in history..........
Russians also bless their tanks (heck, Orthodox priests bless everything).
I mean, you know they’re screwed when Rommel of all people can lecture you on supply lines.
3:22 Italian soldier laughs about his own tank.
Yeah he is like "I'm going to die in this galvanized trashcan"
Thank you, thank you so much and once again congrats on 100k
To sum up the video and comments. The soldiers had the ability to perform well; Poor leadership and bad industry led to their demise.
I would say the majority of the soldiers couldnt, at least a too large number of them, just take a look to the spanish civil war, italian soldiers were beaten by some villagers with guns, and in more than one ocasion, they were trained for war, most of their enemies havent held a gun in his life, i wouldnt call that an hability to perform well
@@hugoporras14 sources? The Archives say otherwise. Heck, even the Germans say otherwise. They still held a lot of respect to the Italians for doing war in the conditions they faced.
@@michelangelobuonarroti4958 ofc the germans respected them they erre their only allies, the last things they would do is to say them they are useless.
(Ofc they werent completely useless, but they werent extra helpful)
@@hugoporras14 yeah, and they weren't extra helpful because their equipment let them down. And they were badly led, as well the industry couldn't turn out supplies as needed. Just look at their attack on France, Egypt and Greece. One attack was badly planned, the other two were plagued by lack of supplies. And in France, the territory was bad for attackers and the French had the strongest fortifications they possessed on that border.
@Gazzara5 "abject cowardice"? You must not be familiar with Italian military history during WWII. Some of the bravest units during the war were Italian. Like the Folgore.
Let's hope Pewdiepie's meme review leaves this one untouched.
DADDY !
Oh shit dad is here too!!!!
Justin Y. Seriously hope meme tanks dosen’t actually become a meme, aint want art being ruined
Harry Haryadi same here. That happened with Totos Africa. Pls community, don't take the tanks from us...
Oh, hey it’s you again.
Italy: Hey, we outnumber you 3 to 1!
Australia: Say what c*nt
I like those odds, mate
Still, even the Italians tankettes were suprerior to Japanese "heavy tanks"
i know its a joke. but Jpaanese never really bother with tanks. all their tech and resources went into their navy. boats and planes, gotta have me some muthafuckin boats and planes
@@yareyare_dechi yeah they Just didnt care about tanks
i mean their tanks were decent pre ww2, pretty much in line with the rest of the world at the time, more than enough for who they were facing in china. its just they never evolved past already out dated before shit got real tech
@@yareyare_dechi Yeah the old tanks were in line with the other Powers, anyway if Japan focused on tanks, they would have lost more easily, instead of fighting with a huge Modern navy and powerful planes like the legendary Zero
@Denis Diderot yes. theyre pre war tanks. they were fitting actual cannons when even the pz 1 amd 2 were basically heavy machine guns. just to clarify im.taking interwar period
my grandad drove a M15/42 in ww2... i'm proud of him. he died 2 years ago at the age of 93
Onore a lui
Onore a tuo nonno
I respect him
Respect.
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"Hey Mussolini, World War 1 called. It wants it's shitty armor design back!" That got me laughting.
The funnier thing? That the "shitty armor design" was still used by the British until 1942/43
@Metal 1974 My point? That the Italian tanks weren't as bad as myths tend to say
Well, we all know, why Churchill never fought the Germans on their beaches or their shores. They were lucky, that Germany was to afraid to invade :D
I’m surprised how the Italian army managed to endure those long years and keep its integrity in general. Considering all of the negative traits that they were having, I’m also surprised how they didn’t revolt earlier. If my comrades and brothers were dying in the front lines by idiotic leadership and our weapons are like shooting paper balls with a straw to the enemy, I will definitely be pissed. I would demand for a change.
They didnt have internet. And lots and lots and lots of propaganda
In total honesty, that is exactly what happened. Italy didn't "cowardly switch sides" like the memes suggest. When the allies started pushing up from the boot end, the King called for an uprising against the fascists and the people and military followed suit.
Italy was genuinely in the Allies at that point. Called the "Co-Belligerent Forces," the Italians fought alongside the British and Americans (and funnily enough, Mexicans and Brazilians) right up until VE Day. The Germans occupied northern Italy and set up a occupational government under one of Mussolini's generals (I forget his name).
Fun Fact: In the game Warthunder, if you play with Italian vehicles, you can join in battles with either side
WHERE'S MY SUPER TANK?!
You mean the semple?, wait for a New Zealand tank video my friend.
Mr Goat This video is misleading. Italians are not universally terrible. Their performance was really varied. The Folgore Paratrooper Division for instance, were uncannily resourceful and dangerous. And there’s that 2-man italian diver team that sunk an entire British ship with explosives, even after they were spotted and captured, iirc.
*WHY* DO YOU NEED IT!?
Gustavo The Goat you forget „HONEY,“
U mean the l35?
Thank you for do these videos. They are the prefect blend of history and comedy.
When you play hoi4 and look at the Italian Tank Division template.
UFF
Oh god. *that gives me nightmares*
I take one look factories, division template,and manpower and i just quit the game and never play them ever again
I quickly had to make my own template. You know, so I could have more than a single tank company in an armoured unit? and modified the existing ones to make them a bit beefier. Always start in 1936. It takes until the war kicks off to make the Italian army useful.
Italy is the shittest country in HOI4. They don't have even five generals whereas in Germany, you can't use all.
My friend: “Italy’s tanks in ww2 were absolutely garbage”
Me: *Laughs in Australian*
Congratulations on 100k subs, and awesome videos
This video underrates the true capabilities of the Italian tanks. Of course, merely driving them around didn't enable them to show their true potential. When dropped 10,000 feet high from the open hatch of a military cargo plane, however, they could cause serious injuries to the heads of enemy soldiers, especially those who didn't have their helmets on.
That just increases their dispersal.
That is true
Example: cold War Russian tank destroyer ASU57: airborne 3 ton tank designed to be dropped out of a plane (on a parachute)
PN Houle
Actually genius.
GhostArmy1 im getting the vibes of that certain plane from metal slug that drops tanks at you
well... sadly my great-father died on one of those go-karts
He was a very brave man for getting in one of those things
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Im doing a History essay/ research task on Italian tanks and this is the best source I've found after 5 hours of looking and its a meme video wtf
Congrats on you 100k subscribers we are rooting for you
Ha I finally found a meme to say for this video.
Pizza time.
Nicholas Luttmer Im not paying for those
Satiric no u
@Satiric how rude
take that back, that line belongs to designers of the Piaggio P.108 !!!11!!1!
@@Vincent_A. A wizard is never late
Heart me Potential History senpai~
as you wish fam
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The Emperor seems to be smiling upon you today Guardsman, now fall back in line before i need to whip my Bolt Pistol!
Wow... It's that easy?
SerTchouwy FOR THE EMPEROR THIS DAY SHALL BE A GLORIOUS ONE. BURN, SLASH, KILL!
WWII - Battle of Singapore, February 1942:
Brirish:
85,000
300 artillery pieces
1,800+ trucks
200 AFVs
208 anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns
54 fortress guns
Japanese:
36,000
440 artillery pieces
3,000 trucks
Casualties and losses
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British:
~5,000 killed or wounded
80,000 captured
Japanese
1,714 killed
3,378 wounded
7:36 last ditch effort: have priest bless your bad tanks
Stop! 😂
PTF LMAO
I don't think the priest is blessing the tank, i think they're giving the tank crews a funeral service before they go into battle against Sherman's and crusaders. Might as well just accept the inevitable.
actually it's called giving the last rites....lol
@@HolzMichel I thought it was an excorcism to drive out the gremlins.
As an italian, i feel offended by this video because... nah i am totally just kidding, we sucked
İn my opinion yeah may İtaly sucked in some wars before then but Roman Empire is undoubtly strongest empire in Europan history!
Nicola Vassallo Yea i feel offended too but we honestly sucked and even now USA or Germany would sh** on us
dio mio che decisione del cazzo che ha avuto
tunderstorm272 perché
Solid_Snake we wouldn‘t shit on you we would try to help u.
You forgot that the Italians got screwed out of the Pact of London in which they didnt get the lands they were promised and mainly fought for in WW1. This grudge mainly fueled why the Italians were opposed to the Allies.
I looked ot up and it seems like italy got most of their demands. They only missed a small bit of the adriatic and tirol. They were supposed to get some of turkey too but i cant imagine blaming the allies for that
SoQuality we deserved all of Croatia and Slovenia, but they only gave us parts of them, we also wanted more colonies
@@niccolobattistoni6733 Maybe italy "deserved them," but I dont see how it would have had a meaningful effect on italy's performance in WWII. I mean its croatia and slovenia
Edit: also what colonies? Southwest africa and Tanzinia? Not exactly known for rolling fields of grain
SoQuality there is plenty of sulfur and iron in Croatia, Slovenia has vast arable fields, the parts of Somalia we wanted were strategic, we also deserved forts in turkey
@@niccolobattistoni6733 lol if you wanted the forts in turkey you shouldnt have had such a shit army
I didn't know Mattel made Tanks just goes to show you learn something everyday.
More *honor* to the fallen Italian soldiers then! It must have taken guts to face much better equipped enemies while driving those ridiculous tin cans.
Given the chance, Italians could put up a fight after all. As Rommel said:
"The German soldier has astonished the world; the Italian Bersagliere has astonished the German soldier."
KastaRules yes, the Germans were astonished the Italians could run that fast.
KastaRules Astonished at how 36k italians can get captured by an army not even half their size?
El Grim Astonished by how a foglore division defended against a British force more than 3 times their size destroyed 120 tanks mainly with molotov cocktails and inflicted so many casualties that they ran out of ammunition. Holding despite their sub standard equipment.
El Grim In Russia italians were so bad equiped that the cold killed more than the russians, and I think that a lot of them didn’t want to fight for Mussolini.
KastaRules Ha! Germany take over most pf europe. The italians? They take north africa with a defeat and also with aid from Germany. Basically Hitler just make italy a body guard under its belly.
Notice there's no Italian version of Wheraboos?
This is why
That's because the Italian version of Wehraboos are Romaboos.
Pastaboo?
I think in Germany they're called "traitorboos".
Benoit Bvg Ironic considering how many times Germany backed out of agreements.
Sadly they exist in Italy and are neo-fascist/nazi's. Source:I know some of those idiots
2 notes:
1. When it came to ground combat decisions, Mussolini was actually a bit brighter than his generals. While that's not saying much, and while he was definitely in over his head, he was a bit brighter than what we belive. In one book I read it was mentioned how extremely unrelible his generals were when it came to present the army's capabilities to him, constantly overestimating their own skills and tactics and underestimating enemy moreale and commander skills while overestimating the armies morale as a combat tool. It also didn't help that the Italian navy was not really on good terms with him, with many allied sympathetic commanders (which seems like a trend in the axis powers (cough... cough... Canaris).
2. Italian tank destroyers were actually pretty decent. No seriously. For the midwar period between '41-43 they were considered effective weapons. It might be, because while neglecting a TD-s armor or egngine is NOT a good idea, it s a lot less detramental for it's ability to fulfill it's purpose, shooting enemy tanks. And since their guns were able to penetrate enemy armor pretty regularly, especialy that of light and medium tanks, they could be considered successfull.
But what are your toughts on this?
Valler Gergő actually the Td's were about the best thing italy had to offer and they got enough cannons which they literally just strapped to a metalbox and called it a day.
Additionally their light artilery tactics were good, however supply was another issue.
Agreed, he stops right when he gets to the one area where they were decent in.
Gustav Kuriga fact is though the italians did not build enough of them and their "normal" tanks were literally like that one really inbreed Cousin of the family.....
Actually he mentions the medium tank that's actually decent, but doesn't count it because the P26/40 was largely produced by the Germans (despite being entirely Italian in design). That tank was about equivalent to a T-34, if the T-34 had a german KwK 40 L/43. So hardly "inbred cousin" material. The fact that they did not build enough of them is true though.
Gustav Kuriga at the time it was mass produced it was obsolet though. Actually that's the theme with many italian Ww2 vehicles. They were pretty good and advanced but their industry just could not produce adequatly fast or precise enough. Like the p40 leoncello. Or their planes which got additionally shafted because the germans did not allow license production of their Motors.
Germany: Tiger
Ussr: t-44
Usa:M4 Sherman
Italy: 1:55
Obviously I'm kidding, don't take me words seriously
Lmaoooo 😂😂
*T-34 and that is not an italian tank, that's a british tankette
Lmao definitely a meme tank 😂😆
"Flamethrower variant". I've changed my mind; I love Italian tanks now.
But in all seriousness: (a la Zoidberg) "Your tanks are bad, and you should feel bad!"
the flamethrower variant was only used in soviet union and in afrika but when they attacked our mighty greece they had one big problem ....
*MOUNTAINS*
I love futurama
@@makiskanyt9269 That did not seem like a a problem to the Turks
Lesson learned: Do not make Mr. Potato head your leader!
Yeah, but the Germans made a Charlie Chaplin-lookalike their leader.
And new idiots are coming to power all the time. Nothing learned.
Or any facist
Benito was a fascist... What did anyone expexted?
@@davemorgan6013 Charlie Chaplin is literally four days older than Hitler.
Germans looking at Italian Planes: Damn they're pretty good, even better than some of our own!
Germans looking at Italian Ships: Not bad! Pretty good designs.
Germans looking at Italian Tanks: Hol'up
italian planes were just as bad as their tanks
@@Broklio13 one of the best airplanes of the Wwii. You obviously don't know nothing about planes
Psichedelika tell me the model about a italian plane ill do research
@@Broklio13 g-55 and many others
Just look for the planes that used DB-605 engine
@@Broklio13 all Macchi C 202 models
New Zeeland: u too use tractors m8?
Italian tank destroyer were actually decent
Not really...they might LOOK decent...they were still under armed and the armour was virtually inexistent!!
They were still the only Italian AFV capable of taking out the grand majority of Allied tanks that it faced (including Shermans and Grants). To the point were the Allied tankers actually treated them as genuine threats (unlike all the other ‘tanks’ they had).
True, I've had my most kills in war thunder on Italian tank destroyer. Like they say, no armor = best armor lol
@@SPEARHEADGLOBAL Not having armour is irrelevant for a tank destroyer (in theory). The best Italian gun - the Canone da 90/53 - was better than the Flak 88 and the similar gun that was mounted on the Tiger tank. Where the Italians were able to utilise this weapon, there were lethal results - the problem being that they did not produce many of them and were not able to utilise them enough to stop the vastly larger and better equipped British Empire forces in North Africa.
@@oliverhughes610 You are right. The Semovente da 75/18 was a solid early war vehicle. It was a tank destroyer/Divisional artillery vehicle. It could serve as close range mobile artillery but it was also a solid anti tank weapon due to it's low shell speed being ideal for Italy effective HEAT rounds.
Remember, these are the same people who made Lamborghini's, Ferrari's and Bugatti's. If they had time to get their industry cranking, it would have been a different war. Thankfully, they didn't.
BTW, Benito wasn't a total idiot. His plan was the same one used in video games to get power leveled. They were going to join the war, let Germany carry them to a win and the reap the rewards as a conqueror. I am pretty sure Mussolini knew his army was not as strong as he hoped.
The music everytime for each topic made me laugh!
Legend says that these tanks were used to deliver pizza after WW2
Legend also says the Polish Army was able to take out lots of Pz II and Pz III with this smallest tank - actually called a tankette. Only because of the skills, wider tracks and mounting twice as powerful engines, it had as the original design. It was called the TK-1. Polish soldiers also used TP-7 which was a 9,5 tones 37mm main gun Polish version of 7 tones Vickers light tank.
An 11.5t TK-9 which was a heavier version of the heavier 7 tones Vickers, and they also made a few of TP-12 (guess what - 15 tones) and a prototype of TP-14 (of course 19 tones and 75mm main gun). All during 1938 and a half of 1939.
If Poland would join Axis Countries, Italy wouldn't be claimed as a powerful ally of Germany.
MrKansai1 teghe
Wasn’t it called the 7TP not the TP7?
Eh doesn’t matter
I imagine the companies that delivered pizza with the tanks were always giving the pizza free
To be fair to tankettes, if your enemy has no tanks of their own, I dont think you have to have that much tank to have a worrying amount of tank.
Italy in WW2: BRUH
Italy in New York: 👌👌👌
WTF
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Italy in ww1:👌👌👌👌👌👌
You pathetic humans wouldn’t understand
verzögern We are silly... but 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Italian tanks would be just as effective if they were made out of pizzas while firing pasta with the crew forced to make a rude Italian hand gesture 24/7.
At least the soldiers would have something to eat instead of starving to death in the Russian winter.
The M13/40 tank was good enough to be used by the Australians when captured. Not a terrible tank at all. The Italians had a chronic shortage of AT guns, artillery, and air support. When they had good kit and leadership, they performed well.
and some pizza cutter wheels so they can cut some some allied tanks to triangle shapes
My grandfather was saved from almost certain death in Jugoslavia thanks to his tank breaking down. Its engine just died on a road in modern-day Slovenia and he was temporarily sent back to Italy with a four weeks leave - he went back to the "fight" a week before Italy capitulated to the allies, was captured by the germans since he didn't accept the conscription into the RSI, escaped with fake papers and disguised himself as a child (he was 158cm tall). Managed to get back home and became first violin as he'd always wanted. Died last year at 97 years of age. So... well. Thanks, L6/40.
I always thought biscotti would make good tank armour.
Italy: *exists*
Roman Empire: *exi--*
Benito Mussolini: *E X I S T S*
IJN Shinano Italy was only brought in via the Pact of Steel, in which Mussolini himself stated to Hitler that Italy wouldn't be able to fight a war for at least another year or two
IJN Shinano Greeks : What are you talking about? WE are the roman empire.
Exited?
You dirty weeb you dont even mention the girls und panzer at 4:15?
@@low-polyhexagonalrat nah mussola thought the war would have been over in a year and thats why he invaded as many countries as possible, to stop germany from taking everything for itself
Poor guys couldn't even switch their rifles to a Spitzer bullet.
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Minifridge let's a go to *ethiopia*
NoName lol
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Moonbase alpha was a good place for memes
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I like how you criticize individuals and their specific decisions, as opposed to painting a whole army or country with a broad brush. It gives your videos a very even handed tone without falling victim to the trap of moral equivalency.
Unfortunately the same can't be said about some of his subscribers.
'Il Duce Chin Measurements'
I will be laughing fr days!
These were actually manufactured by Fisher-Price as part of the Power Wheels line.
Underrated
I can't stop laughing at this, take my like
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What Italians see: a well made amazing tank
What the German and allies see: why the hell are you driving a Lamborghini with a machine gun on it
a Lamborghini tractor that is, one of those old ones.
More like Fiat
FIAT*
DADDY YOUR BACK YES SHOW ME THE MEME DADDY
Sorry johnny I just had too
taco KING does he keeps his memes on his back?
Who just lets 36K of their troops just get captured without a fight?!
Italian solders were often short of everything while the higher officers were busy helping themselves. It's a bit hard to fight when you have no bullets, food or water.
People who don't want to fight. Most italian soldiers didn't really stand behind the Angry Mustahce Model duo, and considered Great Britain a more natural ally to Italy, though there was a resentment, also when the war started turning this feeling got multiplied by a ton. So you have undersupplied, fighting with allies you don't particulary like, against an enemy you like, that don't trust their leadership.... at all. You see now why Italians soldier where not above surrendering?
Mind you, if the Italians had something to fight for they go full berserker mode. For example in World War one, they basicly won the Austrian front in one battle after the Austrians had broken through and the Italian homeland was threatened.
Agreed, if 10 bloody battles of Isonzo and the most humiliating defeat ever in history cannot break a nation’s fighting spirit, then Italy should never be remembered as a nation that fades in front of battles.
lol bullshit
all true, but what also need to be considered:
according to schreiber, a Italian infantry division an 25% of the firepower of a french division and 10% off a german division.
(he calculates the weigh of projectiles per minutes 1 division could fire in theory).
Taken this into account and the fact that the Italian wanted smaller faster division, but then cut logistical support for them, also hurt them.