Armored Attack - Many Wars Ago

Something like 9,000 ethnic Italians fought for the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War, as Austria had at that time, ruled over the Italian region of Trentino. It really hammers home the point of this war of nations just being a war between the ruling classes with the masses under their feet to get what only they had wanted. Bad enough some poor metalworker from Bologna is dying at the hands of some farm labourer from Tyrol, but this saw Italians killing Italians. All pretext of national pride really doesn't hold up

Italians: * have head and chest armoured *
Austrians: guess we aim for the legs then

Frag time

ww1 medieval knight💀

Cuma mengantar nyawa

Although we had to respect their bravery , but this is 20th Century , not 12th Century

What movie?

Italians

The officer is such a dumbass he doesn't even know how to salute properly

Captain, what do we do!? Dr Who's Cybermen are attacking!

Everyone knew this was a bad idea. There was not a chance in hell, this plan would have worked. The best the Italians could have hoped for, was holding the line, not advancing it or at least inch up a bit, a few yards here and there. That many people with trenching tools could have done a better job burrowing slowly foreard, than just completely exposing themselves to enemy fire. And already it was apparent, they were in the enemy's firing range.

It's over Italy, we have the highground

No cover, sent in waves, instead of one or two large assualts and no support, while fighting up hill

Would’ve thought that a whole squad of Ned Kelly’s’ would’ve been a little more effective

If the helmets are on their shoulders, why are the eye slits so high up?

Looks like something from a Monty Python movie.

No guns so they attacked the Austrians with gardening shears.

Is this a joke or?

MG in the front. MG in the back. 99 percent of death

Count binface?

Sad thing is for their honor as well as their manhood they probably willing accepted this knowing damn well that armor isnt gonna do a damn thing that was ww1 though either you went over or you die by your own for cowardice its no wonder armies didnt change for hundred of years.

They figured that out by WW2… but unfortunately for the Italians the results were similar…

Somebody please tell me this is a monty python spoof. Like, tell me this some kind of abstraction of what really happened and the begining of this video only existed in the twisted imagination of someone that needs serious professional mental help.

It didn’t work! Who would have thought

the first 10 seconds is like ASMR

Germans shouting to Italians that they no longer wanted to kill them. What a lesson for today.

So many assaults in WWI just proved that each side had more bullets than the other side had soldiers.

The one bit I don't get is the design clearly seems to be the Brewster body armour, which was American, not Italian.

So youre saying theres a chance?

Trench Crusades lookin crazy

I can shoot at 200 yds and this is my scoped rifle

I can read and write and I work in intelligence

I have an IQ below 70 and this is my armor

Armour but no weapons. Fucking genius

Here's the silly part: Even if the incoming rounds failed to pierce the armor, the wearer would be severely concussed and lose all sense of what he was even doing there. Massive TBI's all over the place. Even medieval archers shooting at armored knights knew this.

Uomini Contro - 1970 Movie based on the book " Un anno sull'Altipiano " - Emilio Lussu, a Captain of the glorius Brigata Sassari.
A great uncle of mine was a machine gunner master sergeant in the Italian Alpini Corp during WW1. He died at 95 years old when I was 20. I once asked him to tell me about the war... I will never forget his lost look and his desperate crying as he whispered "how many have I killed!"

First frame of this clip and one look at the armor and I thought: "whatever you're planning on doing, it's an extremely bad idea."

lol Bring Knights armor to a gunfight. Wish you the best trying to cross no mans land.

The countries of France 🇫🇷 was especially criminally at fault for its soldiers deaths. That’s why there guys gave up the ghost in wwii after only 6 weeks

😮😮😮😮

В ночи нужно было так идти и напугать врага😂

so this is where Zapp Brannigan got his inspiration of Big Book of War.

Muy buena idea cuando los soldados disparan al oficial. Faltaria hacer lo mismo con el jefe que se quedo atras.

One thing they actually did - was create an armored shield snipers could push ahead of them as they crawled out into No Man's Land. At first the shields worked. They were slow to move but resistant to light like. 7.62 mm weapons. The trouble was - the enemy got higher caliber weapons - and those COULD penetrate the shield.

So much for that.
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Really not being funny I would have said fuck the armour would have had a better chance without it

This is probably the last if not the only war before humanity totally deranged. This is the Isonzo front, mainly mountain terrain. Before the end of the war Italians were pushed far in the back...

😂LOL

Yes I know. Mods can be silly sometimes

Which ever genius invented that armor forgot that solders need hand and legs to reach the enemy camp and fight.

dude. f*** that. why?

What was the point of generals?

Absurd. I'd stay in the trench.