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, but 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 Commando Raggruppamento Subacquei ed Incursori Teseo Tesei (Teseo Tesei Diver and Raider Command 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.
Read more about this topic: Italian Commando Frogmen