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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.
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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 ...
The Char D1 number includes the ten pre-series "NC31" vehicles. All 36 NC27's had been exported: one to Sweden, one to Greece, ten to Japan and perhaps 24 to Poland. One Char D1 had been rebuilt into an artillery radio communication tank. One Char D2 was being used for the development of a flamethrower.
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The picture of the Char 2C with the track thrown is hard to reconcile with it being hit at that particular spot. But it might be a tank that, having been captured by the Germans, had already been transported by them over some distance, after which the track, provisionally repaired by a German crew, failed again and forced the train to halt.