![]() Their size allowed them to have sufficiently thick armor and powerful weapons, and they were much cheaper than heavy tanks. Eventually General of Artillery Jean Estienne come to a reasonable conclusion that the future - for medium tanks. It was protected only from bullets of rifle caliber, and it was not an easy task to put something larger than a 37-mm infantry cannon into it. Renault FT-17 - this is the first tank in the world with a lineup "as it should." At the dawn of tank building there were tanks of rhombic form, were in the form of cars, there were giant bikes, but the first tank in the world, as now perceived, is the Renault FT-17. ![]() The next project would be called FU then FV etc… Inside the Factory it was not called the ‘Renault FT’ as everyone at the Renault factory knew it was built by Renault. ![]() The letters ‘FT’ were a project production code, not an abbreviation. In the factory it was called ‘FT Char.’ The word ‘Char’ means tank. This tank had different names at different times. ![]() These tanks, because of their popularity, went on to be used in many future conflicts. The emergence of the revolving gun turret, in 1917, on the tiny two-man French Renault FT-17 provided that light tank with better fields of fire for its main armament and helped toward the tank’s later institutionalized design. The Renault FT, the first tank to use a revolving turret, was the best light tank in the world. ![]()
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