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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 ...
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A Char B1 bis at the Musée des Blindés at Saumur. The French char de bataille Char B1 tank was a very formidable tank, with heavy cast and riveted armour, the same long 47 mm gun as in the S 35, and a hull-mounted 75 mm howitzer. All Char B1s were equipped with radio and the tank was nearly invulnerable to most tanks and towed antitank guns.
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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.
A Char B1 bis at the Musée des Blindés at Saumur. The French char de bataille Char B1 tank was a very formidable tank, with heavy cast and riveted armour, the same long 47 mm gun as in the S 35, and a hull-mounted 75 mm howitzer. All Char B1s were equipped with radio and the tank was nearly invulnerable to most tanks and towed antitank guns.
The "ARL Tracteur C", or ARL Char C, was a French super-heavy tank design. It was developed during the late Interbellum , by the Atelier de Construction de Rueil (ARL) company. A full-scale wooden mock-up was part produced, but the project was terminated in favor of FCM F1 (a directly competing design, which proved to be superior).