By far the best feature of the Carro Veloce is the fact that if you cannot find a parking spot, you simply put it your pocket and take it inside with you.

Crazy how influential the Carden-Lloyd tankette was.

It's also capable of skipping on the surface of water like a pebble

I think I saw one of these as a gate guardian outside an Afghan National Army barracks in 2004.

The crew of a Carro Veloce confronted by a Grant tank must have felt the same way that the crew of a Cromwell did when facing a Tiger.

There's a story that a couple of these managed to sneak by the more powerful British armor and got into the rear area. Don't know if it's true, but they supposedly managed to shoot up some trucks before scurrying away. If true, it shows that these little blighters could cause headaches if used with some stealth and  imagination.

"Anzio High school aproves of this video" - Anchovy

Also you can use them on rollercoasters to spot enemy tanks! Ute!

If wars were won by the side with the cutest tanks the whole world would be speaking italian right now.
The Carro Veloce just looks that adorable.
Edit: I have once again managed to launch a small scale comment war.

@3:23 "Britain viewed Italy as a greater threat than Germany." Italy's unironic proudest (post-Roman Empire) military moment.

Put a snow plow on it with the flame thrower and you have the world's greatest lawn tractor.

We do not put Ansaldo on salado. Maybe David was hungry during filming this.

It's quite rare to see a baby StuG ! I hope it'll grow up to be nice and terrifying !

Awesome video !

Thank you for toning down Mr. Smith's insert. It no longer seems like a late night "Sham-Wow" commercial.

So glad to see David Willey back. I was getting worried he'd left the museum

The Vespa of tanks

Much as I like these talks, I still lose it every time "Ansaldo" is pronounced to sound like "insalato"...

When one considers the diminutive size and weak armor of this sort of tankette/light tank (that several nations were playing around with in the 1920s-1930s), it becomes easy to understand that the US Army's initial idea for use of the .50 machinegun was as an antitank weapon.

Great documentary as usual of course by the Tank Museum!
The L.3 tank is often misunderstood. It was not a proper Tank.
It was not meant to fight other tanks. It was meant to support infantry in the middle of narrow mountain roads, where no other medium tanks could go.
Imagine having near you a tiny twin-MGs armed box firing at the enemy with its high fire-rate and being immune to rifle fire. Would you rather NOT have it or deride the thing?
Used as basic infantry support, as convoy escort, against Partisans... it could have achieved a lot more than what it did.
A well designed tiny tankette all things considered.

This vehicle as a flamethrower was the first to use a detachable cart to carry the fuel which inspired the Churchill Crocodile.
In North Africa to upgun the basic vehicle , Swiss 20mm Solothurn cannon were fitted to it. There is a photo of on guarding the harbor of Trobuk before captured by the British.