Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Ukraine's prototype wonder weapon w/ Patrick Lancaster" video.
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9:08 In medieval times the Italians produced armour for knights which was totally unsuitable for battle, but which was intended to look wonderful in a parade. There is also the story that when our moustachioed friend vitisted Italy, Mussolini had a huge number of cardboard battle tanks built and had them stationed all along the railway line that the visitor's train would travel. He also had the entire Italian army, send everyone it could spare for the day, to stand around near the tanks, so that his guest, got an entirely false impression of Italy's military might.
Come to think of it, I once met a man who had been a tanker in North Africa during WW2. He told me that Italian tanks were much safer to be in than US or British tanks because they were made of such thin material that a bullet would pass straight tthrough them and unless you happened to be in the wrong place you were unhurt. Also they were much lighter and therefore much speedier than the lumbering giants of the allies, If you got hit by an anti-tank rocket the chances were that it too, would pass straight through without exploding, while if you were in an allied tank you would almost certainly be killed by the spray of molten steel that came into the interior.
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