The model pf the L6/40 had been completed in 1938, and the following year the show model had been prepared. The hull had been copied following the preceding L3/33 additionally the brand new device had been powered by an SPA 18D 70 cv engine which gave it a maximum rate of 42 Km/hr. It was armed with a Breda 20mm canon and a massive machinegun. Though it could already be looked at obsolete as soon as it went into production, it absolutely was however utilized in Africa, Russia, the Balkans and in Italy. Most of them were captured by the Germans after the armistice and utilized straight, or supplied by, the Italian personal Republic.
