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The FT was the first production tank to have its armament within a fully rotating turret. [note 1] The Renault FT ... engine. The Renault manual of ... Renault FT-17, ...
As the ST1 turret type had been rejected, a new one had to be developed. Until it was ready all 160 Char D vehicles were temporarily fitted with existing Renault FT turrets, taken from the Renault FT matériel reserve. Two new turret designs were proposed by Schneider. The ST3 was a modification of the ST1. To solve the balance problem, this ...
This pattern, with the gun located in a mounted turret and rear engine, became the standard for most succeeding tanks across the world even to this day. The M1917 was a US tank accepted by the army in October 1918 and is primarily based on the plans of the French Renault FT. The crew, a driver and gunner, were separated from the engine by a ...
Renault's small tank design, the FT, was the first tank to incorporate a top-mounted turret with a full rotation. The FT was in many respects the first truly modern tank having a layout that has been followed by almost all designs ever since: driver at the front; main armament in a fully rotating turret on top; engine at the rear.
It is worth noting that prior to this, not even repairs could be made in Romania, as the country had contracted Czechoslovakia for the repair of its increasingly obsolete and only partially operational fleet of 76 Renault FT-17 World War I-era light tanks. Production of the Renault UE was carried out in Romania between the latter half of 1939 ...
The M1917 was the United States' first mass-produced tank, entering production shortly before the end of World War I. [2] It was a license-built near-copy of the French Renault FT, [2] [3] and was intended to arm the American Expeditionary Forces in France, but American manufacturers failed to produce any in time to take part in the War.
The House erupted into applause when the House announced former Rep. Matt Gaetz would officially be stepping down from his Florida seat and would no longer be a member of the 119th Congress.
Renault FT of the Spanish Army, at the El Goloso Museum of Armored Vehicles. The Spanish army's interest in the tank began near the end of World War I, when a formal petition for one Renault FT light tank was made to the French government on 28 October 1918. [2] This purchase, however, was not processed until 15 January 1919.