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: ''See Decima Flottiglia MAS for Italian frogmen during and before WWII.'' COMSUBIN (''Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei''; Teseo Tesei Diver and Raider Command Group) is the elite commando frogman force and one of the Italian special forces. Italy was the first nation to use frogmen and human torpedoes. The Italian Naval Assault Divisions are considered to be the precursors to modern Naval Special Forces. Their record can be traced back to World War I and the operation against the Austrian-Hungarian Battleship ''Viribus Unitis'' in Pula Harbour in 1918. Other famous operations are Trieste, Suda Bay, Alexandria, Gibraltar, and Malta. Great Britain and Germany soon followed. Italy's frogman group originated in 1938 as the ''1a Flottiglia Mezzi d'Assalto'' (1st Flotilla Assault Vehicles), which was reformed in 1940 as the ''Decima Flottiglia MAS'' (10th Flotilla Assault Vehicles, ''X MAS''). ==Chronology== :''See Operations of X MAS for Italian wartime frogman operations.'' After World War II ended, the victors forbade Italy from maintaining special operations personnel. The Decima Flottiglia MAS was disbanded but the training experience gathered during the war was not lost, it was preserved in units scattered across the new Marina Militare. * 1954: Italy joined the North Atlantic Council and the United Nations. The Allied Powers relented. The Decima Flottiglia MAS was reformed, and had various names as the years passed. * 1960: Its name was settled as ''Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei ed Incursori Teseo Tesei'' (Teseo Tesei Diver and Raider Commando Group, COMSUBIN) after Major Teseo Tesei. COMSUBIN is currently based in three detachments near the Gulf of La Spezia in the Liguria region of north-west Italy. In keeping with its traditions, the command has long been known for its acquisition and use of unconventional weapons and small arms, such as the Armalite AR-10. Some nations including Italy have continued to make and keep human torpedoes after 1945. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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