The Italian Behemoth | Fiat 2000 heavy tank
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- The Kingdom of Italy fought on the side of the Allied powers of France and Great Britain in World War 1, declaring war against the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and Germany in August 1915, October 1915, and August 1916 respectively. Their battlefields were mostly different to the open trench covered battlefields of northern France and Belgium, however. Other than the plains of the north-east, most of northern Italy is rugged mountainous country and Italy’s war on its northern border was one of the most brutal of a very brutal war. Any tank for Italian use would have to not only fill the need to fight in very mountainous terrain but also in colonial wars in Africa. The British had already deployed tanks in World War I and so had the French. The use of the Renault FT by France had been witnessed by Italian observers in 1917, and tanks were the crucial element that was helping the British to advance in France.
In a contract dated 13th October 1915 the Fiat company had already been tasked by Major General Giulio Martini with the design of a 40-tonne armored vehicle with a 65mm gun in the turret and armor superior to an armored car. By the time a design was ready by Fiat, though official interest was being shown in the French tanks instead. The Fiat design, from the pen of Carlo Cavalli (a technical director at Fiat) and Giulio Cesare Cappa (formerly a car designer at Aquila, famous for racing cars) was finally ready in January 1917. This design under the original contract was the ‘Automobile blindata d’assalto tipo 2000' and this design from Fiat was instead to now be commonly known as the ‘Fiat 2000’ although at least one blueprint refers to it as a ‘mobile fort’.
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Fighting Tanks Since 1916, Col. Robert Icks
Le Forze Armate, 1935 - Colonel Pederzini, Italian Tanks 1917-1945 by Dr.Emiliano Ciaralli,
Der Taschenbuch der Panzer, Fritz Heigl
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An article by Andrew Hills
Video mounted by Kraiger
Audio edited by Kraiger
Voicing by Nathaniel McDonald
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The Tank Fiat 2000 stood, before the Arab Spring-Events, on Display in Front of a War Memorial in the Oasis Kufra. My Dad, who was working in Libya for 15 Years saw it there.
I can not confirm if it still exists.
That would be a interesting to find out, i'm going to have a look. I didn't know there was a Fiat 2000 remaining. (Well there might not be)
Fun fact: it was rebuilt in 2021
12:53 ...oh my.. did anyone survive that test?
Doesn't look fatal, but whoever was in there definitely had a very bad day that day.
Oof
It really looks like a tank out of 40k
You miss Italy's primary opponent - Austria-Hungary - the reason Italy fought on the Allied side.
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13:03 Mephisto the only surviving German A7V tank. I saw it in the flesh at the War memorial museum in Canberra in 2016 before it got moved to Queensland
In Nicola Pignato's book there is one photo, of one FIAT 2000, in a parade in Tripoli in the late '20.
Fun fact: a working replica of this tank has currently been built in Italy
It is already finished and they moved on to a FIAT 3000
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ive never seen t1 footage before 12:42 very cool
Great video! Some constructive criticism: get somebody to proofread your script for grammar
Hi Italy also declared war on Austria-Hungary i presume.
The Austro-Hungarians were the main opponents of the Italians. Sorry we missed it from the list!
@@TanksEncyclopediaYTc with such complex topic errors will inevitably occur
The great shittany says "fight for us you will receive Istria Dalmazia Trieste Trento" italy war like " yeah i'm in" when the war war over, The italians war like "time to take our price" but nothing happens. Trieste and trento were annex to italy bit Istria and Dalmazia no. Today we are still angry about that. So many dead for what ? A lie? This is why we still dislike english.
And in 2020 a Group of italians, i'm one of then, build a Real fiat 2000, complete with guns and armor ecc
It's possible that the Italian Staff by 1916 feared a break through of the Central powers in one of those Mountain battles and that they'd need tanks or such a weapon to set up a defense in the lower lands at the foots of the Alps...
One reason that Italy fought with Germany in WW2 was that they suffered massed casualties in WW1 and got very little in territory for their losses.
The fact that Italy since 1920s was being lead by Mussolini and its Fascist regime was the key reason of why Italy aligned with Nazi Germany.
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As a WW1 Vet, Mussolini campaigned on that in order to take over Italy. Most Italians supported the fact that the Allies had "screwed" them in that war. Japan felt the same way with the Allies in WW1.
different topic but I'd suggest you adjust the noise gate you're using the sharp cutoff of the audio is quite distracting
very advanced design for 1917
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cool
"FEE' OUGHT"
Thank you!! Turned it off half way thru.
0:43
You forgot to mention the Austo-Hungarian Empire in the list of countries they decleared war on, unless I'm missing something?
Also Russia wasn't one of the allies?
Good info. Sadly, a vast majority of the video showed nothing associated with the Fiat 2000. Balloons, Schneiders, Whippets, Mark IVs, FT-17s, horse cavalry, foot soldiers, etc.
12:52 i would NOT want to be that Renault FT driver. Bet he got bruises/concussions from that.
For the time? It was an excellent design.
No: traks too narrow, poor off Road mobility.
So... They welded 4 Fiat 500s together...?🤔
This would be nicer to drive, and I speak from experience.
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Good content .... but pls get a narrator that can pronounce a "t" in words ending with one. It's annoying as hell.
7:49 its likely for cutting barbed wire or preventing a soldier from shoving a rod in the drive sprocket
What is the song used at the start?
I would like to see what motorcycles were deployed in WW2. !
I don't know Nathaniel Keep us in your sights is (I am terrible with peoples names) Stan's catchphrase. How about something like See ya and tanks for the memories.
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6:35 brain damage haha
With 6 reverse gears.
There always the ignorant and his ''joke'', surely for those interested in facts to laugh at him and see the chance they have to have this class of good and helpful info.
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