The prototype pf the L6/40 had been finished in 1938, as well as the following 12 months the show model ended up being ready. The hull wound up being copied following preceding L3/33 and the amazing device had been running on an SPA 18D 70 cv engine which provided it a maximum price of 42 Km/hr. It was armed with a Breda 20mm canon and a huge machinegun. Although it could already be regarded obsolete when it went into production, it had been nonetheless used in Africa, Russia, the Balkans as well as in Italy. Many were captured by the Germans after the armistice and used right, or written by, the Italian personal Republic.