Di Dio") is an active tank battalion of the Italian Army, which is based in Pordenone in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and operationally assigned to the 132nd Armored Brigade "Ariete".

The battalion was disbanded on 8 January 1942, due to the losses it had suffered in the British Operation Crusader.

The battalion's anniversary falls, as for all tank units, which have not yet distinguished themselves on the battlefield and earned a medal of valor, on 1 October 1927, the day the tankers speciality was founded.

The new battalion was equipped with M13/40 tanks and sent on 15 February 1941 to Libya for the Western Desert campaign.

On 1 September 1941, the battalion was transferred to the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment, which had just arrived in North Africa.

On 10 July 1948, the school reformed the 1st Tankers Regiment and formed the II Tank Battalion.

On 7 September of the same year the regiment was assigned to the Armored Brigade "Ariete", which had been formed on 1 June 1948.

Tank and armored battalions created during the 1975 army reform were named for officers, soldiers and partisans of the tank speciality, who had served in World War II and been awarded Italy's highest military honor the Gold Medal of Military Valor.

The three battalions were assigned to the 8th Mechanized Brigade "Garibaldi", which was formed on the same day by reorganizing the command of the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment.

[3][5][6][10] On 12 November 1976 the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone granted with decree 846 a new flag to the 7th Tank Battalion "M.O.

[3][11] The Gold Medal of Military Valor, which had been awarded to the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment for its conduct on 18-19 November 1941 in the Action at Bir el Gubi and on 3 July 1942 during the First Battle of El Alamein, was duplicated for the new flag and affixed it.

[1][3] After the end of the Cold War the Italian Army began to draw down its forces and on 13 May 1991 the 7th Tank Battalion "M.O.