page_title: P26/40 tank
section_title: Surviving vehicles
hierarchical_section_title: P26/40 tank / Surviving vehicles
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Festa della Repubblica Italiana 2011English: Army parade of Italy 2011
context_page_description: The P 26/40 was an Italian World War II heavy tank. It was armed with a 75 mm gun and an 8 mm Breda machine gun, plus another optional machine gun in an anti-aircraft mount. The official Italian designation was Carro Armato P 26/40.
  The designation means: P for pesante, the weight of 26 tonnes, and the year of adoption: 1940.
  Design had started in 1940 but very few had been built by the time Italy signed the armistice with the Allies in September 1943 and the few produced afterwards were used by the Germans.
context_section_description: Two P26/40s still exist, one preserved at the Museo della Motorizzazione in Rome and another is currently on display near the army barracks near Lecce.
caption: Surviving P26/40 during Army parade of Italy in 2011
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