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Renault AMR 35
Type
Light cavalry tank
Place of origin
France
Service history
Used by
France Nazi Germany China
Wars
World War II
Production history
Manufacturer
Renault
Produced
1936 to 1939
No. built
167 plus variants
Variants
ZT 2, ZT 3, ZT 4, ADF 1, YS, YS 2, ZB
Specifications
Mass
6.5 tons
Length
3.84 m (12 ft 7 in)
Width
1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Crew
2
Armour
13 mm
Main armament
7.5 mm Reibel machine gun or 13.2 mm Hotchkiss machine gun
Engine
4-cylinder petrol engine 85 hp
Power/weight
13.08 hp/tonne
Suspension
rubber reinforced horizontal springs
Fuel capacity
130 litres
Operational range
about 200 km
Maximum speed
55 km/h (34 mph)
The Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance Renault Modèle 35 Type ZT (AMR 35 or Renault ZT) was a French light tank developed during the Interbellum and used in the Second World War. It was not intended to reconnoitre and report as its name suggests but was a light armoured combat vehicle, mostly without a radio and used as a support tank for the mechanised infantry.
The AMR 35 originated from a project in 1933 to improve the earlier AMR 33 by moving the engine from the front to the back. In 1934 a stronger suspension was fitted and the type was chosen to replace the AMR 33 on the production lines that year. Three orders were made by the French Cavalry of in total two hundred vehicles in five versions, including two machine-gun tanks, two tank destroyer types and a command tank. Later ten were ordered of a radio communication variant, the Renault YS, and over forty were built of a tropical version, the ZT 4.
The production would be much delayed by financial and technical problems, deliveries only starting in 1936. The AMR 35 proved to be an unreliable vehicle. It was one of the fastest tanks of its day, but its very speed overstressed its mechanical parts. In 1937 it was decided not to make any further orders but organisational difficulties slowed final deliveries of some versions until well into 1940; even by the time of the Fall of France in June 1940 the ZT 4 order had not yet been finished.
During the Battle of France the AMR 35s were part of armoured and motorised divisions, the vast majority being lost during the first weeks of the fighting. During the remainder of the Second World War Germany made use of some captured vehicles.
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