Renault R35 french tank

R35 tank at the Saumur museum, may 2008.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Renault
• R35
• char
• blindé
• tank
• panzer
• saumur
• 2008

[HautBlanc]

C'est bien, vu le budget on va pouvoir s'en resservir. Suffit d'ajouter un gps.

[alainwalter]

mais le camouflage est impeccable!

[Napoleon2607]

c'est reparti comme en 40 ! lol

J'adore ce char même si la plupart des gens préférent le Somua ou le B1 Bis !

France 40 , en force ! N'oublions pas les 92 000 soldats Français morts pour la France en 1940 !

[alainwalter]

C'est vrai! c'est surtout le commandement qui n'a pas été à la hauteur.

[Fridomfry]

The Renault R35 was a light tank designed for infantry support, in the mid-1930s, to replace the F17 of 1917. So it was well adapted to this outdated tactic. It was slow, and its crew of 2 men was overwhelmed with multitasks!

Other French tanks were, indeed, the best of the time : Somua, B1bis, etc. proved superior to the best German panzers of 1940.

[Tyco200]

So glad Char de Gualle tried hard, and did amazingly, to fight off Blitzkrieg. He was the only one who understood. He also used good radio systems, and used well done tanks such as the Char D2, Hotchkiss, S-35, etc.

[Tyco200]

France's equipment was amazing. CharB1, AMC-36 (first slopped armored tank, not T-34 which was all but useless), Renult R-35s, Hotchkiss H-35. They did fight hard. Harder than the British. Sadly, Britain slaughtered their navy, in some ways stabbed them in the back (except for trying to help them/hence fearing the capable French navy in Nazi hands) etc.

[Tyco200]

@Fridomfry Hell yes! B1bis itself was more for a match. That French Wolf named Berne II took down 14 tanks. All of which were Panzer III/IV. Give France a month more, and Germany would've taken much worse air losses.

[proulxmontpellier]

It also seems that there was a degree of treason from the high ranking French officers, who seem to have preferred the Nazis to the Allies, but couldn't, of course, say so. Most petty officers or sergeants I have interviewed and were at the Front in 1939/40 told me that the ammunition they received was never adapted to their armament. This is also the thesis of a man who was in the French Intelligence Services and was murdered during the Occupation, Marc Bloch.

[NicaKrnKid]

@captmark97 i agree.just a stupid joke

[druisteen2]

@HautBlanc

il n'en reste qu un seul en france

[XxMiLlErAnGerxX]

Tout nos char des années 30 40 sont magnifique.Malgré leur quelque défauts,ils étaient à même d'accomplir leur objectifs au combat.Sans parler des divers motif de camouflage appliqué à cette époque,tous aussi beau les un des autres!

[Briselance]

@DonMeaker

Reverse gears ? Oh, you mean to park it on the street, don't you ? ^^

[Briselance]

@tonedeaf49

"According to Wikipedia"

Not only according to Wikipedia, but also according to hte reports and memories of French, British and even German soldiers who fought the campaign of 1940 and lived long enough to write the thing.

[tonedeaf49]

According to Wikipedia, French deaths during the Battle of France fell somewhere between 55,000 and 85,000. Deaths of French POW's were about 24,600. The French soldiers fought well, but their tactics were outdated, their communications were totally inadequate and their senior commanders were stuck in a WWI mindset. And don't forget, the majority of the soldiers holding the perimeter at Dunkirk weren't British, they were French.