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    The SOMUA S35 was a French cavalry tank of the Second World War. Built from 1936 until 1940 to equip the armoured divisions of the Cavalry, it was for...
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  • However, production was cancelled after the Fall of France in 1940. "SOMUA S 40 :: France (FRA) :: Tanks". Retrieved 2015-02-20. "On the Drawing Board:...
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  • S40 (redirect from S-40)
    (to be specified by the manufacturer), a safety phrase Somua S40, a prototype French tank Sulfur-40, an isotope of sulfur S40, a postcode district in Chesterfield...
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    AMX-50 (redirect from SOMUA SM)
    competition with AMX, the SOMUA company also developed a tank to meet the demand for a heavily armed vehicle: the Char SOMUA SM, that however had been...
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    tank British Cromwell cruiser tank Canadian Ram II cruiser tank French SOMUA S35 cavalry tank German Panzer III and Panzer IV medium tank Hungarian Turán...
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    ARL V 39 (redirect from ARL 40)
    existing medium tanks: SOMUA, with the Somua SAu 40 based on the chassis of the SOMUA S35 medium cavalry tank, and ARL, with the ARL 40, developed using parts...
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  • S307/303(f) French Somua MCG/MCL - SPW S307/303(f) mit Reihenwerfer French Somua MCG/MCL - 7.5 cm Pak 40 auf m SPW S307/303(f) French Somua MCG/MCL - 8 cm...
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    lightly armored versions of the Sd.Kfz. 4 "Maultier" and captured French SOMUA MCG half-track. To improve the mobility of the Nebelwerfer units, a ten-tube...
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    Char B1 AMR 33 AMR 35 AMC 34 AMC 35 Hotchkiss H35 SOMUA S35 Cold War AMX-10 RC AMX-13 AMX-30 AMX-40 AMX-50 ARL 44 ARL 45 Modern era AMX Leclerc History...
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    was decided to buy vehicles abroad. Poles were most interested in French SOMUA S35 tanks, but the proposal was refused by the French government. In 1938...
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    easily dispatch any tank of the 1930s, including the new French vehicles Somua S35 and B1 bis. However the modernization did not address the low mobility...
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  • The Char D3 was a French tank. It was Char D1's colonial version. In the early 1930s, when Char D had not entered production, Renault was ordered to develop...
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    armoured division, as main battle vehicles until being replaced by the SOMUA S35 from 1937. Fourteen were then transferred to the 2e Régiment de Chasseurs...
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  • derived variants Renault FT Renault R-35 Renault R-40 Char D1 Medium tanks Char D2 Cavalry tanks SOMUA S35 Char G1 (Prototype) Armoured combat tanks AMC...
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    Mécaniques (mechanised light divisions) of the cavalry, equipped with the SOMUA S35. The First and Second DCR had 69 Char B1s each; the Third 68. The 37th...
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  • (39) SOMUA S35 (6) Hotchkiss H35 (19) Panzer 35(t) (36) Panzer 38(t) (10) Panzer I (1) Panzer IV (46 or 91) T-34 (85) PzKpfw IV H with 76.2mm ZiS-3 gun...
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  • axis of Hoepner's attack. In the early morning the 2nd DLM sent some 30 SOMUA S-35s from the Mehaigne to the line Merdorp-Crehen to relieve the pressure...
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  • tank prototype (3; Canada) SMK tank heavy tank prototype (1; Soviet Union) SOMUA S35 tank (430; France) Special number 3 light tank Ku-Ro prototype glider...
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    high-velocity tank guns. The French cavalry tanks (Chars de Cavalerie) such as the SOMUA S35 focused on speed in addition to power and protection of the other designs...
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  • SOMUA MCG. Equivalent of the Sd.Kfz. 251/1. 7.5 cm PaK 40 mSPW S307(f) auf SOMUA MCG (72 built) An armoured SOMUA half-track mounting the 75mm Pak 40...
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  • Mittler Schutzenpanzerwagen S307(f) mit Reihenwerfer – mortar on French SOMUA MCG half-track truck chassis Panzerspähwagen Kfz 13 Leichter Panzerspähwagen...
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    procure French weaponry. Initially Poland had favoured the more modern SOMUA S35 but sales of that type had been denied, priority being given to the...
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    moment the French Cavalry no longer itself intended to use the type (but the SOMUA S35 instead) and advised that priority should be given to the Belgian order...
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    the CC Tank Battalion SOMUA, which had been formed by the 4th Tank Infantry Regiment and was equipped with captured French SOMUA S35 cavalry tanks. The...
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  • frontal part of the hull. This new tank was intended to use the new 107mm ZiS-6 gun which was being developed at Plant #92, and the 45mm 20-K gun as a secondary...
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    (SLD-Lorraine) and Societé d'Outillage Mécanique et d'Usinage d'Artillerie (SOMUA). The new vehicle was based on the new post-war requirement for a single...
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    Stug III, Tiger II, Jagdpanzer 38(t), Jagdpanther, Jagdtiger, Sd.Kfz. 251, Somua S35, Comet I, Matilda Mk I, A38 Valiant, Ram Cruiser Mk II, M24 Chaffee...
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  • Thumbnail for 47 mm APX anti-tank gun
    47mm SA 35 mle 1935 - an earlier variant, mounted on tanks such as the Somua S35 and the Char B1, used shortened 47×193 mm R cartridge. 25 mm Hotchkiss...
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    Schlepper (f) - twelve self-propelled artillery vehicles, mounting 10.5cm leFH18/40 L/28 howitzers. Beobachtungswagen auf Lorraine Schlepper (f) - An artillery...
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    a more reliable and powerfully armed new armoured car, the AMR Gendron-SOMUA. For Renault, the entire AMR project had been a financial disaster. On 16...
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