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From: daveb@ingres.com (David Brower)
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Subject: Re: WWII Italian Armor, Why so Bad?
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Date: 1 May 91 16:54:41 GMT
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From: daveb@ingres.com (David Brower)


>>I began to wonder why most, if not all, of the Italian tanks and
>>armored vehicles were so bad and poorly designed. 

	[11 lines of unattributed unnecessary quoted text deleted --CDR]

My recollection of the Conventional Wisdom on this was that the Italians
made a big mistake in modernizing too early (late 20's, early 30's), and
were unable or unwilling to develop a whole second generation mid-30's
when the world-wide trends in aircraft and tank design started to become
clearer.  Like tanks with Guns, and all-metal monoplanes.

-dB
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