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The origins of the Char 2C have always been shrouded in a certain mystery. [3] In the summer of 1916, likely in July, [3] General Léon Augustin Jean Marie Mourret, the Subsecretary of Artillery, verbally granted Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM), a shipyard in the south of France near Toulon, the contract for the development of a heavy tank, a char d'assaut de grand modèle.
Rapidly rotating the external cylinder (in case of the Char 2C tank design at 300 rpm with an electric motor) [1] created the visual illusion of seeing through the cupola as if not there due to human persistence of vision, similar to how a plank fence with alternating planks and holes fades from view when the observer moves alongside it at a ...
Char B1 Char B1 bis variant. Originally the Char B1 was conceived as breakthrough tank using its Hull mounted gun to attack fortifications. Eventually became a Char de Bataille or battle tank that was meant to take on enemy armour. Heavily armoured and armed for its day and was inpenetrable to ordinary German Anti-tank Guns. Char 2C
Super-heavy breakthrough tanks such as the Char 2C (69 t or 68 long tons or 76 short tons) or the K-Wagen (120 t or 118 long tons or 132 short tons) were nearly completed before the war ended. In comparison, the current British MBT, the Challenger 2 , weighs some 60 t (59 long tons; 66 short tons).
Of the Char 2C two vehicles had been cannibalised. The 1580 FT 17's were all of the machine gun type. During the Fall of France they equipped units with an organic strength of 1105. There were about 1000 additional FT 17 chassis in use or being rebuilt as utility vehicles and about 261 FT 17's serving in the colonies.
The heaviest class was formed by the char lourd, or "heavy tank". In the programmes of 1921 and 1930, no new tank was foreseen for this class, the char 2C fulfilling the role of char lourd. [1] The programme of 1926 led on 28 March 1928 to a char d'arrêt project of fifty tons, named after the fort d'arrêt, a solitary fort able to block enemy ...
In absolute terms the vehicle was very large: at 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m) tall the Mark VIII was the second largest operational tank in history, after the Char 2C. However its weight was only 38.3 long tons (38.9 t) [ 4 ] fitted for battle as the armour plate was thin with a thickness of 16 mm on the front and sides—a slight improvement over the ...
The FCM 2C wasn't the first tank to have a stroboscopic cupola - it was the FCM 1A retrofitted with a cupola in 1919. The FCM Char de Bataille prototype of 1923 certainly had a stroboscopic cupola (Char Francais website) and in the US an experimental cupola fit was done on a Mark VIII (Hunnicutt's book on heavy tanks).