But the Italian commanders followed closely the British tank building, in particular, the idea of creating heavy breakthrough tanks. Already in 1917, Italy began the development of a light tank based on the French Renault FT 17. Italy, having entered the Great War in 1915, very soon attended to equipping its not too victorious army with all sorts of novelties used by the allies on the fronts. Italians began to develop tanks by the end of the Great War. All of them produced relatively good samples of armored vehicles for their time, for example, "Lancia IZ", "Lince", "Fiat Ansaldo", "Fiat Tripoli". In subsequent years, the creation and design of armored vehicles involved such Italian companies as "Bianchi", "Lancia IZ" and "Fiat". It was then that engineer Justino Cattaneo created the first armored car, armed with two 7.62mm machine guns and developing speeds of up to 37km/h with light bulletproof armor. The origins of the Italian tank building were in 1911. The Italian designers in the early 20th century went a long way from creating light armored cars to designing tanks and self-propelled guns. Italy also produced armored vehicles of high traffic, armored personnel carriers and armored vehicles. A striking example of this class of Italian technology is the ACS "Semovente da 75/18" with a 75-mm gun with a length of 18 calibers. In addition to tanks, the Italian industry during the war years mastered the production of self-propelled guns. This would be followed by a letter and a series of numbers. Carro Armato (armored vehicle) was the Italian Army's designation for tanks from 1938.
The designations of the Italian vehicles was very simple. The word “armor” derives from the latter word, which was the name for the leather protection worn by the Roman legionnaires in combat.
It comes from the Latin word corium, which means a leather hide and, more precisely from corruzzu or armaturs. Italian Tanks - Early Developments Light tanks Carro Armato
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