By Steven J. Zaloga, Ian Palmer
All the French medium and heavy tanks of 1940 are during this name: Renault feet, Renault R-35, FCM-36, Hotchkiss H.38, Char B1bis, Renault D-1, and Renault D-2.
The first quantity of this half sequence will conceal the infantry tanks and conflict tanks that served in 1940. beginning with the Renault feet of global warfare I status, it is going to conceal the modernization of the feet within the inter-war years. the point of interest of the infantry tank part could be at the makes an attempt to exchange the feet with designs resembling the Renault R-35, FCM-36, and the Hotchkiss H.38. Derivatives of those kinds can also be coated equivalent to the R-40. France additionally had a separate relations of conflict tanks beginning with the Renault D-1, Renault D-2, and at last the easiest recognized tank of the crusade, the Char B1 bis. This e-book will offer a quick improvement account those tanks forms, masking the tactical rationales for his or her layout and their simple technical gains. it's going to additionally in short deal with their functionality within the 1940 crusade, declaring the salient good points of the strive against record.
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Les engins de combat de l’armée française en 1940, Trucks & Tanks Hors-Serie no. 5, Caraktére (2010) Touzin, Pierre, Les engins blindés français 1920–1945, vol. 1, SERA (1976) Touzin, Pierre, Les véhicules blindés français 1900–1944, EPA (1979) Vauvillier, François, and Touraine, J. com Renault recognized that the Char B1 bis was a technical dead end, and began promoting more modern designs for the future battle tank requirement. This is a wooden mock-up of the Char G1R. (Pierre Touzin) 47 INDEX References to images are in bold.
The manufacturers set the price at FF2,500,000, but this was negotiated down to FF1,380,000, although the price did not include the guns or turret. After years of delay, the first contract was awarded in March 1934 for seven tanks, followed by a second contract on December 16, 1934 for 20 more. The first batch of tanks was delivered from December 1935 to May 1936, but they were still without their guns or turrets. The ST2 turret was deemed unacceptable since it had frontal armor of only 30mm compared to the 40mm requirement.
To complicate matters further, the original contracts for the three Char B pilots from the 1926 program had not included development of the turret or armament. As was the case through so much of the French army, the rise of the Nazi party in Germany in 1933 provided a sudden jolt of reality. The manufacturers set the price at FF2,500,000, but this was negotiated down to FF1,380,000, although the price did not include the guns or turret. After years of delay, the first contract was awarded in March 1934 for seven tanks, followed by a second contract on December 16, 1934 for 20 more.