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The Char B1 was a French heavy tank manufactured before World War II.
The Char B1 was a specialised heavy break-through vehicle, originally conceived as a self-propelled gun with a 75 mm howitzer in the hull; later a 47 mm gun in a turret was added, to allow it to function also as a Char de Bataille, a "battle tank" fighting enemy armour. Starting in the early twenties, its development and production were repeatedly delayed, resulting in a vehicle that was both technologically complex and expensive, and already obsolescent when real mass-production of a derived version, the Char B1 "bis", started in the late thirties. Although a second uparmoured version, the Char B1 "ter", was developed, only two prototypes were built.
Among the most powerfully armed and armoured tanks of its day, the Char B1 was very effective in direct confrontations with German armour in 1940 during the Battle of France, but slow speed and high fuel consumption made it ill-adapted to the war of movement then being fought. After the defeat of France captured Char B1 (bis) would be used by Germany, with some rebuilt as flamethrowers or mechanised artillery.
Must not say..... I CAN"T HELP IT!
Moving forward...IN REVERSE!
Proudly waving the white flag of the french army
Funny you should say that. During the French revolution the loyalists waved white flags so they could be told apart from the revolutionaries.
That's the French for you. No word for surrender, so they learn it in every other language to make up for it.
the joke fails hard because 1) the english word "surrender" sounds french, I'd bet my left nut it is a loan word from French. and 2) It IS a loan word from French.
Surrender: from Old French surrendre.
Conclusion: you fail. Good day sir :D
Ugh, 3 gears in reverse and the forward gear has forward marked threw and reverse above it instead, this tank sucks...
Everyone rags on French tank power, but most of them were already built before World War II, and once France was captured, the Germans took surviving tanks and re-used them. If only France did better...
They re-used them simply because they need something to cover their infantry. Most of the french tanks were either used for rearguard duty or was converted to fulfill other roles. And besides, even though they ripped off German techs, the French tank were fails even after WW2. The ARL 44 and AMX-50 are fine examples of that.
Agreed, it's not like you can call the hothckiss TD, the gesüchtswagen hotchkiss french anymore, even if you argue they had potential since they was good platforms to upgrade then I raise you with the Panzer(38t), that little bugger had more upgrade potential then all other french hulls combined.
That's because WWII French tanks were designed for another trench war like WWI, not a blitzkrieg that Germany pulled on them. The tanks themselves were obsolete by the war's start, but they still got re-purposed by their invaders, so obviously they saw something in them besides a reverse gear and scrap metal.
Although, if World of Tanks "realism" is to be believed, yes, they were awful machines all around.