Italian Military

Were they really that bad in WW2? How do they do now?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >WW2
    Mussolini larped too hard and the Italian military was nowhere near ready to fight any major power and Mussolini knew this, when he joined in 1940 he thought the war was over and wanted a piece of the pie before Hitler snatched everything up. Also the Italian officer class was horrible along with the nonexistent NCO class in the Italian army, they simply weren’t ready to fight a war against the UK or the USA.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Also he did silly shit like lower the size of divisions, so on paper he could have more of them and develop shitty tanks that weren't useful in the mountains where they did a lot of their fighting.
      I think the Italian Navy was decent though.

      Their airforce and navy are quite strong. They are one of the few countries that has demonstrated SEAD capabilities in combat and they are about to commission their third carrier.
      Don’t know a lot about their army.

      I'm pretty sure I've seen one of their carriers in port near Naples when I was there for a visit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What Mussolini wanted, which was demographic majority pushing out minorities, would have been far easier to achieve by just not declaring war on anybody. If all he did was improve Italy and encourage Italians to have children, that would have resulted in Italians gaining demographic dominance in a Europe where there were already declining birth rates. His frickery in Ethiopia, Libya, and Albania accomplished nothing. His wars ended up reducing the Italian population and the prosperity of the country. If Mussolini had died in the early 1930's, Italy would have eclipsed France after WW2.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Mussolini not doing pointless shit would not be Mussolini.

        Daily reminder that the French Resistance was an allied psyop that basically didn't exist until after France was liberated.

        Italian partisans were not much better, it was mostly lurking in the woods, taking potshots at trains and cars, hiding gear and guns so you can return home where mom already prepared dinner, then go out into the woods again to larp the next day. Once allied forces come near you, hide in the cellar with the women until the battle passes over you, then go out and stand at the next streetcorner with your guns out to make some pictures for the press.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >lefties larp as warriors but do none of the fighting
          A tale as old as time

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Mussolini not doing pointless shit would not be Mussolini.
          This. And its at the core of every Axis counterfactual. If only [whoever] had a complete personality change, ignored the consequences and practice of their ideology and had a radically different world view. Its always the same and incredibly tiresome.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            What I was saying is that his philosophy and his endgame were at odds. The actions he took did not bring about the intended results. How much could anybody expect from someone dumb enough to unironically believe in Marxist ideology?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >shitaly

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Their airforce and navy are quite strong. They are one of the few countries that has demonstrated SEAD capabilities in combat and they are about to commission their third carrier.
    Don’t know a lot about their army.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Were they really that bad in WW2?
    lmao yes. Are you really this moronic?

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The story I've been told is that the Italian military was much like the Red Army after the purges where there every officer and commander was given the job for being in good terms with the man in charge rather than having any skill regarding the position

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Italian military was never “purged” it was just that the general staff was very incompetent and thought they would be fighting the same war like they did in WW1, similar to the French situation

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Italian here. WW2 experience was as bad as everyone thinks if not worse.
    Today Italy has a decent Airforce and Navy (for a G8 country) with a new F35B fleet and 2 carriers capable of supporting them. Meanwhile the army is total shit, basically 1980s tier, probably because more then half of army defence spending goes to pay the enormous amount of officers (read cronyism). They're mainly use for safeguarding city centers or additional help during natural disasters.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Since the 2016 terrorist attacks basically every single city with more then 50.000 people has a permanent (during the day) army patrol in front of its railway or metro stations, airports, or heritage sites.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        man could you imagine the shitstorm if america had armed soldiers patrolling the streets

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >if america had armed soldiers patrolling the streets
          The National Guard does that everytime theres a ape out. And I'm pretty sure our police are armed like European soldiers on the streets

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            There's a difference between riot control and every day patrol, just like there's a difference between a modern cop having an AR-15 in the patrol car vs in his hands while walking down the street every day.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Last time the Nasty Girls did any of that it was a token show of force to convince the public that the Democrat's goons were under control. For fricks sake they didn't even load their rifles.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              go leave yt

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                screaming "leave" won't make it go away, war tourist.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Reddit moment

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So we're already to pre war /k/

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                the idiots that run all the shilling on this site input /po/ instead of /misc/ one day so all the bots and trannies went to the oragami board and it had like 1000000% increase in traffic one day due to this frick up

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >source
                My ass

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              man could you imagine the shitstorm if america had armed soldiers patrolling the streets

              Can amerimutts not drag their shitty politics into every thread?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's not like they are patrolling the city.
          It would be more like you visit NY and while at JFK you see 2 soldiers chatting with some cops while they walk around and when in the city you see an HMMWV with again 2 soldiers strolling outside Ground Zero or the Chrysler.
          Also on another note the army is bad, having lot of officers, lot of nepotism and being composed by 90% southerners but not as bad as what

          https://i.imgur.com/Vfud58S.jpg

          Italian here. WW2 experience was as bad as everyone thinks if not worse.
          Today Italy has a decent Airforce and Navy (for a G8 country) with a new F35B fleet and 2 carriers capable of supporting them. Meanwhile the army is total shit, basically 1980s tier, probably because more then half of army defence spending goes to pay the enormous amount of officers (read cronyism). They're mainly use for safeguarding city centers or additional help during natural disasters.

          said.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            "SOUTHERNERS"!?

            what does that mean, does ItLy have Mason/Dixie Line thing going on.

            I won't pretend to know much about Italian History Or Culture, but what I do know, is that after the collapse of the Ancient Roman Empire, Italy as a country and people didn't exist and really it was medieval kingdoms that the people Identified with.

            A Milanese see's himself more a man of Milan, like saying a Texan views himself more of a man of Texas, than an American.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Southeners are terroni. People from the south of Italy. 99% of the usual "italian" stereotypes you see on tv are born from terroni. They created the mafia, they don't like to work, they look arab, they act very israeli in all aspect of life and if you call them terroni to their face they will recoil in shock, as you can't use the T word, only they can, cumpà.
              They are the filth of Italy and 90% of all italian emigrants from the 19th century come from there.
              Clueless "italian"-americans that know nothing about Italy will insist they are "based" without realizing that terroni are basically like mexicans just more lazy.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Imagine a place with the economy of Germany and the crime rate of Japan.
              Give him the Alps, beautiful lakes, lot of rice but silent hill like fog.
              Now go on the other side and imagine a mix between Greece, Balkans and northern Africa but with better women and more sun.
              Now connect the 2 areas with some Inbetweens and no name places.
              If you did as I said you got yourself the amazing Italy, the place where everyone goes on holiday in the south but without the North would probably not even qualify as a first worlder.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This was a major culture shock when I travelled in Europe just before COVID. Live in Black personapolis, but have still never seen cops/military police walking around with machineguns on the day-to-day. Even during the riots, the NG wasn't allowed to keep their rifles loaded.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >This was a major culture shock when I travelled in Europe just before COVID. Live in Black personapolis, but have still never seen cops/military police walking around with machineguns on the day-to-day. Even during the riots, the NG wasn't allowed to keep their rifles loaded.

            Protip: they aren't loaded.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Then what's the point?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          no need when every county sheriff and his interns already LARP as seal team six

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        To be fair they don't and can't do shit. They can only call the police if something happens. The only time they can do something is if a terrorist attact ensues and we still have to notify command before doing anything.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          As I said, they're there to protect sensitive targets from terrorist attacks. Policing actions are made by the police or Carabinieri (wich are technically part of the amry).
          If you don't see them do shit maybe it's because Italy hasn't had a terrorist attack.
          Better to be safe then sorry.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They are not technically part of the army, they are part of the armed forces.
            It's like saying the murines are part of the US Army.
            They used to til 99 but now they are completely separated.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I said technically and not practically because they still answer both to the Chief of the Defence Staff (for war matters) and the Minister of Internal affairs (for policing or rescue matters)

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                God those new uniform are shit. I want the old ones back.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Gay cybercops

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They are not technically part of the army, they are part of the armed forces.
                It's like saying the murines are part of the US Army.
                They used to til 99 but now they are completely separated.

                >what is a gendarmerie
                found the americans

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            dont they avoid terrorist attacks by giving bribe money to terrorists and info about other euro countries troop movements?
            disgusting pieces of shit

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >he fell for Anglo propaganda

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Lol, is this in reference of the "muh raghead bribes" lie that the Bongoloids circulated a while back? Never happened, even according to the French Army.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >avoid terrorist attacks by giving bribe money to terrorists
              about that…
              https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/venice-mayor-allahu-akbar-shot-luigi-brugnaro-barcelona-attack-st-marks-square-muslims-italy-city-a7910081.html?amp

              >The Italians get made fun of all the time about WW2

              Only because they switched sides when the tides turned, not because their army was shit. Nothing comparable to how everyone talks shit about France during WWII. Nothing compares to how people mock France. People picture Italians as untrustworthy, but see French as weak cowards. Hell, most Americans don't even know about Italy switching sides during WWII but they sure as hell know that "French are cowards cheese eating surrender monkeys".

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                don’t know why I quoted the second post

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >brits still fuming mad that they have to resort to such blatant propaganda.
              Even the fricking french government and high military command debunked that shit.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I know about the bribes, one carabinieri who was over there told me how every week one patrol left with bags full of money and other shit for specific villages.
              Was even proud of it, like everyone else wanted war but they found a solution without doing much. Corruption is the norm in italy, money talks and nobody gives a shit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Would breed that cutie

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They were bad, pretty bad but there was also a lot of stuff stacked against them, including Germany hiding the war start date from them, a bad case of “fight the same war as last time”, and an economy that simple couldn’t handle the reality of WW2. Basically a nation that shouldn’t have fought but did and paid the price.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >sir I can confirm that the chickens have accepted Cpt. Vagotti as their leader. She will lead them in a pre-dawn attack as planned.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    company of heroes 3 is so fricking gay

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What does that have to do

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. Pretty good.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Vegetato is a cool camo and that's all I have to contribute

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      True

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Italian armored cars were apparently nice. Their aircraft were great but outdated, and their frogmen were apparently top tier shit. That's what I recall offhand. Also the usual meme from some non Italians that Italian soldiers under right command were quite good. And yes everyone knows their small arms were beyond bad except for the samurai SMG which was great.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, their frogmen were the best of the war and pulled off some real James Bond shit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Really, their only bad small arm was the breda 30, which was pretty abhorrent. The whole ‘Carcanos were potmetal shitrods’ is primarily fuddlore, in my experience.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Their frogmen pulled off one (1) attack

      Actually the best performing branch of the Italian military in WW2 is arguably their small-ship navy. The capital ship fleet got shwacked so the destroyers and e-boats carried the Regia Marina through all the battles leading up to Operations Torch and Husky. They fought hard, inflicted some losses, and paid the price.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What even is the point of posting this thread. You have to know that nobody on this board has more than a performative understanding of the topic. A basic reality is that most good sources on Italian forces historically and in the modern day are in Italian not English. However there are some books available in English that can be pretty illuminating. So really my advice to you anon would be if you are genuinely curious about something go fricking read a book.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What if there's an Italian here
      I'll translate some funny stories about Italy in WW2 if the thread is still up later, you have no idea the amount of stupid they managed to reach

      https://i.imgur.com/Vfud58S.jpg

      Italian here. WW2 experience was as bad as everyone thinks if not worse.
      Today Italy has a decent Airforce and Navy (for a G8 country) with a new F35B fleet and 2 carriers capable of supporting them. Meanwhile the army is total shit, basically 1980s tier, probably because more then half of army defence spending goes to pay the enormous amount of officers (read cronyism). They're mainly use for safeguarding city centers or additional help during natural disasters.

      The Italian military nowadays is welfare for Southerners. That's all there is to it. Toys For Terroni.

      Really, their only bad small arm was the breda 30, which was pretty abhorrent. The whole ‘Carcanos were potmetal shitrods’ is primarily fuddlore, in my experience.

      Carcanos are shitrods. I like them, they're still bad, outdated, their production was poorly managed, ammunition was a mess. The usual defense is "poor country what do" but then you remember that the Japs built a better rifle coming out from the Middle Ages and the Soviets built a better shitrod with women and children. I'm still salty about the Japs.

      >Literally the only European nation to lose to an African nation prior to decolonization
      >Got turbofricked against actual western powers
      Big shocker eh? Lamppost boy only made things worse.

      On our defense, God was on the side of the Ethiopians. You don't frick with the Lion of Judah until tech gives you an edge.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Toys for Terroni
        kek
        When I trained with the Italians in Sicily with the folgore, they were really competent and fun to be around when compared with the Belgians, Germans etc.
        T. Spanish army

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, we love to have fun, what can I say

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Regular army is welfare for terroni, special units are good.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, we love to have fun, what can I say

            Only interacted with the folgore guys but idk if thats considered SF in Italy, one of the guys carried a MVSN dagger which was funny

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >one of the guys carried a MVSN dagger which was funny
              thats folgore for you

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            all militaries look exactly the same now

            delete that patch, just another anonymous goon. no style or uniqueness to anything. just mass produced amazon prime garbage

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Would you prefer crazy mf who go around the battlefield throwing dozenz of hand grenades and a knife in their mouth like the arditi but in 2023?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah we should make room for Ukraine thread #6 gorillion, good idea homosexual

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    TOTAL

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Italians thought pic related was a good idea. That's really all you need to know about them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And they were. The bersaglieri used them to great effect against the english

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    GODDAMN PASTA Black folk NEED TO SEND MOAR BERETTA AR70/90s DOWN HERE IN THE GOOD 'OL US OF A!!!

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Germans kept giving away their movements in Africa because they thought the Enigma decryption couldnt be cracked

    So the British always knew when logistical supplies were coming over the Mediterranean etc.

    Rommel even gave away the German defences for D-day because he was convinced of German superiority couldn’t be cracked by the British kek

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fricking wehraboos get high on their own supply, worse than weeaboos.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Complex. They were a very divided force. You had the actual fascist Mussolini Legions, the regular armed forces who were as politically spread as the general population, the divisions that were placed under Rommel, and the divisions in eastern europe fighting the soviets. These had very different levels of leadership and motivation. Basically the regular soldiers despised their officers and saw no reason to fight for them. Rommel's Italian divisions fought like hell, the eastern front divisions fought for their lives. The other branches; the navy had severe fuel shortages, the airforce had for a long time subpar planes. But both of those forces fought with what they had.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Italians with Panzerarmee Afrika fought fairly poorly though

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They bailed on us in Iraq after barely a year after their fancy military police got car bombed. They left most of their shit in theatre and we had to ship it back for them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Italy is still there
      they’re actually leading NATO Mission Iraq

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For what they had to work with, they fought like lions.
    But they weren't ready for that kind of war.
    They should have stayed out of Greece, and probably should have stayed out of Africa.
    Mussolini should have instead focused on internal matters and modernization.
    I served with them in Farrah, Afghanistan.
    I wasn't really that impressed.
    They had a bad habit of not being present for firefights, leaving us and the ANA and ANP to deal with the Taliban ourselves.
    Granted, we handled them pretty well but the help would have been appreciated.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Literally the only European nation to lose to an African nation prior to decolonization
    >Got turbofricked against actual western powers
    Big shocker eh? Lamppost boy only made things worse.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think if the Italians had more time to prepare (like a decade) they could have been quite a contender. But, that's just now how it happened. So yeah, they really were that bad.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I love the feather helmets/hats they use for some reason

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the feather hat guys are basically their equivalent of Rangers.

      they're big on going fast.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >the feather hat guys are basically their equivalent of Rangers.

        No they aren't shut the frick up

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I was impressed until the fat women showed up in the last scene. Dropped

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Jason Genova tard waddling right at the back ruined it for me

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i wish the civi ARX didn't suck ass.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The ones made in US sucked ass for the first year. Then they became okay to good. Still not on par to the mil version produced in gardone.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I cooka da pizza

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Were they really that bad in WW2?
    Not as bad as they are made out to have been they had some interesting characters, the mini sub marine raid for instance but this guy is my favorite

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    Amedeo Guillet crammed rather a lot into his 101 years. He is best remembered for leading, on his white Arabian stallion, Sandor, a potentially suicidal cavalry charge against the tanks and 25-pounder artillery guns of Britain’s advancing “Gazelle Force” in the Horn of Africa in 1941. It was the last ever cavalry charge against British troops and earned the then Lieutenant Guillet the nickname Comandante Diavolo – the Devil Commander – from both his own men and an enemy that came to respect and even befriend him. Usually dressed like an Arab or Ethiopian tribesman, he became known in his native land as “Italy’s Lawrence of Arabia”.
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  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think pinapple pizza is fine

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Competent air force for 1936-ish (Actually coming into the Spanish Civil War better equipped than the Luftwaffe) barely being able to keep up by '41-42 as Soviet and Allied designs surpassed them in quality and quantity.

    Mediocre line infantry augmented by world class light infantry such as bersaglieri and alpini and proto-spec ops like their frogmen and paratroopers, the latter being essentially die hard elite infantry a la Fallschirmjaeger but with the check book for hardware of the Regia Esercito. All of these units likewise suffered horrible modernisation limitations owing to limited Italian Industry in comparison to its competition.

    Good navy at the war's start unable to keep up with the Royal Navy's dockyards once the war broke out in the Med.

    Their biggest problem, and I cannot stress this enough, was their industry. Everyone was building shitty tanks with machine guns in the mid 30s, almost everyone but Italy was still using shitty biplanes in the mid 30s. The deciding factor was Italy couldn't build enough tanks to replace the L3 or enough planes to keep up with the USAAF and RAF

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Were they really that bad in WW2?

    No. They were far far worse than that. ONE full entire month after the beginning of the invasion of France by Germany, seeing that France was getting steamrolled, Italy decided they too wanted to claim to have defeated what was, at the time, viewed as the world's first military power. They invaded France coming from the Alps in the South of France, while the bulk of the French army was busy getting annihilated by Germans in the North of France. When the Italians invaded all that France managed to gather to defend its border were second rate troops. And yet Italians failed so much on such a monumental scale that they had to retreat in Italy and repel the French defensive invasion inside Italy territory. It is only once France got defeated by Germany that Italy got to claim lands in France. Funny to think that most Americans still make French surrendering jokes when talking about WWII but say nothing about Italy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_France

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Funny to think that most Americans still make French surrendering jokes when talking about WWII but say nothing about Italy
      The Italians get made fun of all the time about WW2 what are you talking about

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The Italians get made fun of all the time about WW2

        Only because they switched sides when the tides turned, not because their army was shit. Nothing comparable to how everyone talks shit about France during WWII. Nothing compares to how people mock France. People picture Italians as untrustworthy, but see French as weak cowards. Hell, most Americans don't even know about Italy switching sides during WWII but they sure as hell know that "French are cowards cheese eating surrender monkeys".

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          it's because we had high hopes for France but ended up fighting Vichy in Africa, having Maquisards betrayed by their own fellow citizens, and practically begging the French to not let the Nazis use their navy. Everybody has nice things to say about the Free French

          The Italians however are part of the Axis. Nobody has ANY expectations of them. It is like you are asking why everybody makes fun of French and not the Nazis. There's nothing to make fun of. They're just shitheads.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Daily reminder that the French Resistance was an allied psyop that basically didn't exist until after France was liberated.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >what is railway supply

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The Maquis was real enough but they were resisting German conscription ("Service du travail obligatoire") not the Germans per se.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The Italians get made fun of all the time about WW2

      Only because they switched sides when the tides turned, not because their army was shit. Nothing comparable to how everyone talks shit about France during WWII. Nothing compares to how people mock France. People picture Italians as untrustworthy, but see French as weak cowards. Hell, most Americans don't even know about Italy switching sides during WWII but they sure as hell know that "French are cowards cheese eating surrender monkeys".

      t.frog

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Well, the Ethiopians beat them. That says it all.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they outnumbered the italians 10:1 and were trained and supplied by the Russians and the French

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I dont see why you have to root for your armed forces so vehemently like it's a football club. Honestly. First off, most of you, and i'm not talking about just italians, loathe the average normie out there. So whats the point of this blind patriotism?
    Furthermore, you don't have any role in the overall training or logistics of the armed forces, they're complete strangers whom you know only from Wikipedia. So why feel ashamed of their performance?
    And lastly, the army doesnt reflect the overall skills and abilities of an entire nation, so if one sucks, it doesnt mean everyone from that nation sucks. I think it was made clear already ffs.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Postan

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      me with the dirtbike

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Whats the gun they have?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Beretta MAB38s. The finest smgs of ww2

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Beretta was already a thing during ww2?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Beretta was founded in 1526, making it one of the oldest manufacturing company in the world
            Beretta guns were used in the battle of Lepanto by the venetians ffs

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Beretta is also the oldest family owned company. The current CEO and executive VP are the fifteenth generation of Berettas that have run the company.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Beretta is also the oldest family owned company. The current CEO and executive VP are the fifteenth generation of Berettas that have run the company.

              Damn that's cool.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's been a while since I touched on this topic so I may get some stuff wrong. In WW2 The Royal Italian Navy was their strongest asset that performed well, and was a deadly threat to a thinly stretched Royal Navy trying to attain dominance in the Mediterranean(Later the USN would ease this but they were stretched thin as well and the RIN was still a threat). As for the army their officers were generally not good, however their infantrymen were said to have performed well under German command, which is to say Italian command were incompetent. That isn't the full picture though, the Italians were fighting a war they were not ready for and their factories could not produce enough to keep up when they weren't being bombed and so when bombing of northern Italy started things went from bad to worse. The air force had many good fighters like the Fiat G.55 and the 205 Veltro that performed very well, however again their industrial base was inadequate to keep up with the hungry war they were in. The Italians produced many good quality weapons during WW2 but just didn't have the industrial base to produce said weapons in quantities to make a big enough difference.

    As for the modern day Italian armed forces their Navy is well equipped with 8 FREMM frigates constructed and another two on the way and they have two modern Air defence destroyers of the Orizzonte class. The modern Italian navy have the 30,000 ton aircraft carrier Cavour which can supposedly carry up to 20 to 30 aircraft(depending on the source). Most importantly though their logistics are of good quality with their new Volcano class support ship coming into service. They have a good budget of around $30 billion and their participation in Tempest(so long as the project reaps rewards) means Italy holds a stake in 6th generation fighter capabilities. I don't know enough about the Army or Air force to comment. Italian defence companies like for example Leonardo produce good military equipment.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >was a deadly threat to a thinly stretched Royal Navy trying to attain dominance in the Mediterranean(Later the USN would ease this but they were stretched thin as well and the RIN was still a threat)
      Not really

      Cunningham cruised the Med looking for a fight, but after losing their cruisers and battleships the Regia Marina didn't do much until Operation Torch other than blockading Malta, which they didn't succeed at for more than 2 months

      THEN they got off their asses and tried to maintain the Libyan supply route, but suffered heavy losses. At this point in the war the US Navy was still the junior force in the Med and untested, and bombarded the beaches while the Mediterranean Fleet screened the landing force. Then came Sicily, and so on.

      The RM contested the Mediterranean fiercely, but they didn't control it.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >ww2
    Yes

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's the point of having two carriers if you don't use them to protect the Med from hordes of barbarians?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the frick are you going to do with a carrier? drop a GBU from an f35 onto a wooden ship?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Perhaps.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Gun runs, homosexual. Pop a few 25 mm rounds in the engine and chuckle as I zoom away.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >says the 51%

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      French and German officials kept crying about muh poor refugees back when we used to send them back, why even bother?
      if they like them so much we can just send them there

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ever make pizza from scratch at your campsite?
    It was sort of like that

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Had a great uncle who was in the alpine corp. part of the division that got mauled by Soviets (maybe 1 in 12 survived from his battalion). Then the whole occupation by the nazis happened.
    Now they are decent. Italians have good industry, economy notwithstanding.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They were even worse than that. To put things into perspective: They tried invading France through the Alps, while France was getting its teeth kicked in by the Nazis up North. The Italians (who btw, only had one tiny front to focus on) figured it'd be a good idea to march in infantry columns through the Alps towards French forts, only to get shredded by machinegun fire, and artillery. It takes a special kind of moronation to decide to invade through Alpine fortified passes.

    The Italians barely managed to capture 832km2 of French land by the time France surrendered to the Nazis. This cost the lives of 1250 of their soldiers, vs max 40 dead French. And btw, this was supposed to be the top of the Italian army, vs the fricking reserves of fricking France out of all countries.

  40. 1 year ago
    Camo Thread

    speaking of italian military, can anyone ID this camo for me?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Just looks like black camo

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Black folk.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/YKMydDh.jpg

      burn alive.

      https://i.imgur.com/TF2VXzg.png

      get murdered

      Seethe

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      terrible game

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    burn alive.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    get murdered

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Replace "Birmingham" with "Genoa"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The picture shows the Home Guard and its from 1941. Also from parade in Birmingham in 1941.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Wow! I guess that does justify the replacement of the anglos

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Return to your containment board if you want to demonstrate your resistance to replacement and colonisation. Be the change you seek, worm.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >slava ukraini

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The eternal anglo has been working lockstep with the israelite to destroy western civilization

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