Pl. 43
Plate 43 of 87 · Class VI, Tanks & armoured cars
Renault FT
A French light tank, the first production tank with its armament in a fully rotating turret. Its layout, with the crew in front, the engine at the rear and the gun in a revolving turret, became the standard tank design. More than 3,000 were built, most of them in 1918.
Mentioned in
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §5 The Americans Arrive, and the Second Marne
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §4 Tanks: From Landships to Whippets