Hi Pat,
as I stated before,there's a lot of new hardware and stuff,as well as changes in organization overall,into the Armed Forces in these years,wich needs to be updated
About the MBT Ariete,all I know is that the step II,due to budget shortages,would not happen at the moment,just an upgrading of the systems as you pointed out,so it will still be Ariete C1,as long as I know,it's not easy to get informations like these over here unfortunately...
