 The major organisational change during the year was the formation of a tank battalion, consisting of three companies, each of three platoons of five tanks.The only tankettes in service at this time were Renault FTs operated by a training company, but an order for new tanks had been submitted.Large-scale manoeuvres were carried out in Slovenia in September 1937, involving the equivalent of four divisions, and exposing to foreign observers the serious deficiencies in the army, caused by incompetent General Staff and the senior commanders, a lack of technical training of regimental officers in modern warfare, and across-the-board shortages of arms and equipment of almost every type.