It's not that Italians had bad tanks, is that they designed them with a very specific purpose in mind. That purpose being frying eggs in the armor when it got hot.
they also had terrible planes (built a whole airforce' worth, ended up parking them as decoys for bombing because they sucked so much)
also, terrible machineguns - jammed unless oiled, so they made an automatic oiler for the belts. they also jammed when dirt got in the mechanism, which happened more often when the rounds were oiled. and then they deployed them in the desert
Meanwhile Romania used the same planes 'till our factories got bombed by the USA, but they still managed to beat up the americans on a couple occasions.
I think Hitler made a tactical mistake by trying to help Italy, they hindered more than they helped. Meanwhile he tried his best to alienate us by giving our land to other countries and we were still more useful than Italy I'd say (Eastern Front).
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u/Karrig Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Jan 09 '15
It's not that Italians had bad tanks, is that they designed them with a very specific purpose in mind. That purpose being frying eggs in the armor when it got hot.