Wheeled Gladiator | The B1 Centauro Part 1

The concept of a fast tank destroyer for the Italian Army was conceived during the Cold War in order to replace some vehicles then in Italian service, such as the then obsolete M47 Patton. Such a vehicle was also meant to support the slower M60A3 Patton and Leopard 1A2 tanks in the defense of Adriatic coast areas (where the armies of the Warsaw Pact could have landed if war had broken out), defend the rear lines from paratrooper landings as well as to attack Armored Fighting Vehicles that had broken through the NATO lines towards the heart of Italy. The Consortium IVECO-FIAT – OTO-Melara (CIO) at that time was working on projects for new light Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV). In order to save on costs on the project, CIO tried to create a tank destroyer starting from the Fiat 6614 and 6616 prototypes, armed with a 90 mm cannon in turret on a modified hull.

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Libano/ I militari italiani si addestrano con gli altri contingenti di Unifil e le forze armate libanesi nell’esercitazione multinazionale “Steel Storm”

http://alternathistory.com/ispytano-v-rossii-kolesnyi-istrebitel-tankov-centauro-120-i-bmp-vbm-freccia-/

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An article by Arturo Giusti
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Edited by Louis Mendoza
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