text: A: Post war Italy did very little tank development due to the ready availability of US tanks. Don’t forget that as a NATO member there was only supposed to be a couple of standard NATO tanks anyway which already existed. It’s certainly not that Italy weren’t aware that their post war fleet (initially of various types of Sherman’s and Stuarts) were outdated, they tried hard to sell them off to places like Israel. Italy was invested in the Europanzer project with Germany and France too initially although their exact role isn’t fully explained.