… Army Recognition web TV.
"In spite of the fact that it was first involved in a conflict during World War 1 with the British Mk. IV and V tanks, and the French FT17 – very slow tanks designed only to open the way to infantry charges –, the battle tank revealed its own nature and possibilities during World War 2, a war that saw rapid and dramatic improvements of this weapon, sometimes leading to crazy projects of which only very few actually went further than the drawing board.
A new ad splendid room was inaugurated in March 2018, displaying superb scale models and drawings of somehow "tanks" dating back to the Antiquity up to Cold War project, even anticipating the year 2050. Imagined in 1942 to please Hitler's addiction to enormous war instruments, the craziest German project of a "Landcruiser" tank weighing 1,000 tons with two 280mm guns as main armament never went further than the drawing board.
Dating back to Antiquity, a redoubtable weapon saw a terrible development during World War 1 and even more World War 2: the flamethrower. The Tank Museum displays what is probably the last surviving example of an Italian tankette in flamethrower version, still with its original trailer. It was captured by the British army in the North African campaign…."
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