Fiat 3000 | |
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Type | Light tank |
Place of origin | Italy |
Service history | |
In service | 1921–1945 |
Used by | Italy Ethiopia Albania Hungary China Latvia Denmark Japan |
Wars | Pacification 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. built | 152 (100 mod 21, 52 mod 30) |
Specifications | |
Mass | 6 tonnes |
Length | 4.29 m (168.9 in) |
Width | 1.65 m (65.0 in) |
Height | 2.20 m (86.6 in) |
Crew | 2 |
Armor | 6 mm-16 mm |
Main armament | 2x 6.5 mm machine guns 3000A 1x 37 mm 3000B |
Secondary armament | 1x 6.5 mm machine gun |
Engine | Fiat 4-cylinder 50 hp (37 kW) |
Suspension | vertical 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]