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    The char 2C, also known as the FCM 2C, was a French post WWI heavy tank landship, later considered a super-heavy tank.[page needed] It was developed during...
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    Méditerranée (FCM) company. Twelve were ordered in 1940 to replace the char 2C, but France was defeated before construction could begin, a wooden mock-up...
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    The Char B1 was a French heavy tank manufactured before World War II. The Char B1 was a specialised break-through vehicle, originally conceived as a self-propelled...
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    shown in Berlin as a trophy. Char 2C bis: 72 tons; modified Char 2C with 155 mm howitzer and different turret; one Char 2C was converted into this variant...
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  • up Char or char in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Char may refer to: Char Fontane, American actress Char Margolis, American spiritualist René Char (1907–1988)...
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  • introduced by Apple Computer in April 1984 Char 2C, a French heavy tank developed during World War I Long March 2C, a Chinese rocket Oflag II-C, a World War...
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    The FCM 1A was French heavy tank that served as a prototype of the char 2C. The FCM 1A began development in January 1917 when 200 hp engines became available...
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    Renault R35 (redirect from Char R35)
    The Renault R35, an abbreviation of Char léger Modèle 1935 R or R 35, was a French light infantry tank of the Second World War. Designed from 1933 onwards...
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    The Char D1 was an Interwar French light tank. The French plan of 1926, calling for the creation of a Light Infantry Support Tank, led to the development...
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    Renault FT (redirect from Char Renault FT17)
    would be preferable to a smaller number of super-heavy tanks (the later Char 2C). On 27 November 1916, Estienne sent to the French Commander in Chief a...
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  • The Char G1 was a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank. Several prototypes from different companies were developed from 1936 onwards...
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    were introduced, the larger tanks were classified as heavy. The French Char 2C was one of the largest tanks ever produced. At the start of World War II...
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    design effort was put in this line of development resulting in the gigantic Char 2C, the most complex and technologically advanced tank of its day. Its very...
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    should she require them. (Britain hoped France would produce its own Char 2C in sufficient numbers, Loucheur already knew this was unlikely to happen[citation...
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    mounting a 152 mm cannon or 203 mm howitzer. Two prototypes produced. Char 2C: tank with similar design Neubaufahrzeug T-28, a medium tank that shared...
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  • or refitted with the L/35 SA 38 gun. Five H 35's were exported. Of the Char 2C two vehicles had been cannibalised. The 1580 FT 17's were all of the machine...
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  • vehicle (such as a Zeppelin L 30, an armoured train, a Dreadnought, or a Char 2C) becomes available for their use. Domination: a version of Conquest with...
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    Based on the SAu 40 chassis and its Char G1-project but with the original width, this SOMUA S40 had a welded ARL 2C turret and redesigned cast superstructure...
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    The Char D2 was a French medium tank of the interwar period. In 1930, at a time the Char D1 had not even entered production, the Renault company agreed...
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  • Renault R-40 Char D1 Medium tanks Char D2 Cavalry tanks SOMUA S35 Char G1 (Prototype) Armoured combat tanks AMC 34 AMC 35 Heavy tanks Char B1 Char 2C AMX M4...
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    the most numerous tank of the war. A last development was the superheavy Char 2C, the largest tank ever built, be it some years after the armistice. Numerous...
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  • circumference. Rapidly rotating the external cylinder (in case of the Char 2C tank design at 300 rpm with an electric motor) created the visual illusion...
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  • tank Char B1 (34) Char B1 bis (369) Char B1 ter (2) ARL Tracteur C (never built) Char BB (never built) Char Lourd - improved Char 2C (never built) FCM...
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    shortened 11.08 litres V-4 180 hp version of the V-6 engine used in the Char B1. There were five road wheels. The suspension used horizontal rubber cylinders...
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    in the French World War 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...
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    also used on numerous french armored vehicles such as the Renault FT, the Char 2C and the White-Laffly armored car. The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss was used by the...
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    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 modern artillery piece....
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    S35 Infantry FCM 36 Hotchkiss H35 Matilda I T-26 Heavy, super-heavy Char 2C Char B1 T-35 Prototypes, experimentals 10TP FCM F1 Grosstraktor Kolohousenka...
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    the most numerous tank of the war. A last development was the superheavy Char 2C, the largest tank ever to see service, some years after the armistice....
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    Molinié in the summer of 1945, repeating the course of events with the Char 2C, which after the previous war had also received captured Maybach engines...
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