While the military tank has existed as a primarily behemoth of the battlefield, not every model is quite so massive. Many tanks are much more compact affairs.
Italy's initial armored units, relying on ineffective "tankettes" and the ill-equipped Fiat 3000, faced humiliating defeats in Ethiopia, Spain, and early North African campaigns.
Based on a popular and reliable design, the Czechoslovak Tankette Model 33 somehow ended up becoming notoriously the opposite, and saw middling military use.
The operation was carried out by members of the elite Long Range Desert Group in September 1942
It was carried out to distract attention from the preparation for the Battle of El Alamein a month later
The elite forces destroyed or damaged 23 Italian planes being used to drop bombs on Allied troops
Incredibly, whilst ten members of the force were captured and 11 were injured, no one was killed