Fiat 3000

Fiat 3000
Fiat 3000 mod.21
TypeLight tank
Place of originItaly
Service history
In service1921–1945
Used byItaly
Ethiopia
Albania
Hungary
China
Latvia
Denmark
Japan
WarsPacification of Libya
Ethiopian coup d'état of 1928
Second Italo–Abyssinian War
Second Sino–Japanese War
Slovak-Hungarian War
World War II
Production history
No. built152 (100 mod 21, 52 mod 30)
Specifications
Mass6 tonnes
Length4.29 m (168.9 in)
Width1.65 m (65.0 in)
Height2.20 m (86.6 in)
Crew2

Armor6 mm-16 mm
Main
armament
2x 6.5 mm machine guns 3000A
1x 37 mm 3000B
Secondary
armament
1x 6.5 mm machine gun
EngineFiat 4-cylinder
50 hp (37 kW)
Suspensionvertical springs
Operational
range
100 km (62 mi)
Maximum speed 21 km/h (13 mph)

The Fiat 3000 was the first tank to be produced in series in Italy.[1] It became the standard tank of the emerging Italian armored units after World War I. The 3000 was based on the French Renault FT.[2]

  1. ^ "Fiat 3000 (1921)". tanks-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  2. ^ "Fiat 3000". www.historyofwar.org. Retrieved 2021-12-06.