 In the Spanish Civil War, L3s of the Corps of Volunteer Troops ("Corpo Truppe Volontarie", or CTV) were totally out-classed by the T-26 and BT-5 tanks provided to the Republican forces by the Soviet Union.The L3s were not a factor in the brief war between the Hungarians and Slovakia.On 10 June 1940, when Italy entered World War II, the Royal Italian Army ("Regio Esercito") possessed only about one-hundred M11/39 medium tanks in two tank battalions.