8/25/2023 0 Comments Best battle tank 2019In the age of Panthers, Tiger IIs, IS-3s and Pershings, upgrading anything old just wouldn’t do and the French engineers, charged immediately after the liberation of France with restoring the French military glory found themselves surrounded by a lot of unfamiliar technology.īy the end of the war, the desire to restore the honor of France was very strong amongst the population and military both, calling for a number of expensive undertakings in order to catch up to the other tank-building nations. They were partially familiar with the vehicles appearing on both sides of the conflict and some tank development was going on in secrecy throughout the war, but most of these programs were still rooted in the 1930s and based on pre-war technology while the world moved on. To a large degree, the Fall of France isolated the French designers from the wartime trends. The most powerful tanks the French had were some four hundred Char B1 Heavy Tanks, but these were slow, lumbering behemoths with very limited strategic value and while they did achieve some tactical successes (the best known being Pierre Billotte’s rampage), in the end, they could do little to stem the German tide and fell victim to the dreaded Blitzkrieg. Many of these obsolete machines were still in service two decades after the grand victory of 1918 and their age was showing. And, of course, there still were the stocks of the WW1 FT-17, the first mass-produced tank to feature the classic “rotating turret with an engine in the back” layout. However, much of its armored force was quite dated with a large portion consisting of tiny light tanks such as the Renault R35. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the May of 1945, the five year long German occupation ended and the French military industry awoke to a very different world from the one of 1940.īefore the Second World War, France boasted one of the most powerful militaries of the continent with some rather modern vehicles entering service by the time the conflict broke out, such as the Somua S35 cavalry tank. The story of the AMX-50 begins right at the end of the Second World War in France. The second part of the Arabian Nights season will bring the long-awaited French line of progression vehicles and today, we are happy to introduce the first one of them to you – the Tier 3 AMX-50 Main Battle Tank that will appear as the initial vehicle of the branch.
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