French Renault WWI Light Tank with revolutionary rotating turret-Downloadable model from Fiddlersgreen

Avant de vous faire une présentation détaillée du plus fameux des engins chenillés français, le Renault FT17, voici ses caractéristiques : Fiche technique du Renault FT17 : - Date projet : 1916 (essai en IV/1917)- Concepteur : Louis Renault (en collaboration...

Www.war-models.com Renault FT17 et caterpillar FP 1918 1/35

After the French defeat of 1940, the Wehrmacht captured about 1,700 tanks of the old FT type. They were used for patrol, police, and anti-partisan warfare.

Renault FT17 and Char B.1bis WW2. 1/76 scale Matchbox kit. liked this kit

Reference Picture When the US Army entered WWI on the side of the Allies, the army had no armored vehicles to speak of and had no industry to produce them, so French and British designs were licensed to be manufactured in America. The doughboys were very impressed by the French Renault FT-17 and relayed a message to their superiors that such a vehicle could be the future of the Armed Forces of America. The US Army wanted to develop several Ft17 variants of their own: A normal tank version with a gun, an unarmed radio version, and a troop support variant armed only with a 30-caliber Browning M1919 machinegun. Despite a promising future, the American Ft17 variants never made it to Europe and the orders for all of the variants were called off.