The Saint-Chamond was the second French tank to enter service during the First World War, with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918. Although...
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town of Saint-Chamond Saint-Chamond (tank) Saint-Chamond 75 mm gun This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title St Chamond. If an...
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Frot-Laffly landship, Boirault machine and Souain experiment. Another 400 Saint-Chamond tanks were manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918 but they were underpowered...
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Canon de 75 modèle 1897 (section Anti-tank)
mounted anti-aircraft artillery. They were the main armament of the Saint-Chamond tank in 1918 and the Char 2c. The French 75 is widely regarded as the first...
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The Canon de 75 modèle 1915 Saint-Chamond also known as the Canon de Tir Rapide 75 mm St Chamond or the Saint-Chamond-Mondragón was specified in the 1890s...
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Saint-Chamond (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʃamɔ̃]) is a commune in the Loire department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central France. Situated...
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Germans fielded few tanks anyway and the Allied tanks concentrated on anti-infantry and infantry support activities. French Saint-Chamond tank of 1917, with...
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another order for 400 Saint-Chamond tanks was also placed. Schneider had trouble with meeting production schedules, and the tank deliveries were spread...
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Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt (redirect from Saint-Chamond (arms manufacturer))
navy, army, and railroads. It is often known as Saint-Chamond from its main location in Saint-Chamond, Loire. In 1815 James Jackson, a manufacturer from...
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Tiger II (redirect from Königstiger tank)
I era Saint-Chamond tank and post-World War I Char 2C. The Porsche suspension components were later used on a few of the later Jagdtiger tank destroyers...
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deployed and suffered 50% losses from German long-range artillery. The Saint-Chamond tanks, first deployed on 5 May, proved to be so badly designed that they...
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Renault FT (redirect from FT-17 tank)
deployed, together with smaller numbers of the older Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks. As the war had become a war of movement during mid-1918, during...
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for a tank on caterpillar tracks, in late 1915. The result was two largely unsatisfactory types of tank, 400 each of the Schneider and Saint-Chamond, both...
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addition to the 144 AEF tanks, the attack was joined by 275 French tanks (216 FTs and 59 Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks) of the French 1st Assault...
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and a force of 63 Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks many bogged down in mud. The French infantry and 21 tanks reached the German second position according...
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Schneider CA1 (redirect from Schneider tank)
d'Homécourt, as a subcontractor but they had developed a heavier tank design, the Saint-Chamond tank. As a result, the first prototype could only be presented...
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First World War, when it was fitted to the French Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks. The late variants of Panzer III had frontal spaced armour: a 20 mm...
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The cruiser tank (sometimes called cavalry tank or fast tank) was a British tank concept of the interwar period for tanks designed as modernised armoured...
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gunners on a duckboard track in Château Wood, near Hooge, 1917 A French Saint-Chamond tank ("Teddy") with a 75 mm field gun, Condé-sur-Aisne, 1917 Russian cavalry...
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List of combat vehicles of World War I (section Tanks)
British tanks captured and reused. France Aubriot Gabet tank † FCM A * FCM 1A † FCM 1B * Peugeot tank † Renault FT Saint-Chamond Saint-Chamond 25t * Schneider...
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The Saint-Chamond modèle 1921 was a prototype wheel-cum-track military vehicle made in France during the interwar period. The type was known as autochenilles...
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A main battle tank (MBT), also known as a battle tank or universal tank, is a tank that fills the role of armour-protected direct fire and maneuver in...
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The Tsar Tank (Russian: Царь-танк, transcription: Tsar'-tank), also known as the Netopyr' (Russian: Нетопырь, which stands for Pipistrellus, a genus of...
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Levavasseur project (category History of the tank)
September 1915, and in 1916 became involved with the development of the Saint-Chamond tank, which bore what Gougaud describes as "disturbing similarities" to...
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Vehicle armour (redirect from Tank armour)
the First World War, where it was used on the Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks. Spaced armour can be advantageous in several situations. For example...
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early tanks, experimented with a petrol-electric transmission in their Holt gas–electric tank. A comparable design was used on the French Saint-Chamond and...
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Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne (category History of the tank)
the ill-fated Saint-Chamond tank. During a chance meeting on 16 July, Renault informed him that his company was developing a light tank (the Renault FT)...
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The "Female" tank was a variation of the British heavy tank deployed during the First World War. It carried multiple machine guns instead of the mix of...
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in tank design, the first American tanks to see service were copies of French light tanks and a joint heavy tank design with the United Kingdom. In the...
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attached Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks were impeded by mud and 27 bogged behind the French front line. Fifteen tanks were immobilised crossing...
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