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ARL "tracteur" C
Type
Super-heavy tank
Place of origin
French Third Republic
Specifications
Mass
145 metric tons
Length
12 m
Width
3.20 m
Height
3.60 m
Crew
8
Armour
120 mm
Main armament
90 mm gun
Secondary armament
47 mm SA35 gun, 7.5 mm machine guns
Engine
two 550 hp engines 1,100 hp total
Power/weight
7.58 hp/t
Maximum speed
25 km/h
The "ARL Tracteur C", or ARL Char C, was a French super-heavy tank design developed during the late Interbellum by the Atelier de Construction de Rueil (ARL) company. A full-scale wooden mock-up was part produced, but the project was terminated in favor of FCM F1, a directly competing design, which proved to be superior. The vehicle was meant to be extremely heavy and for that time period, very heavily armored. ARL C was intended to be very long to meet the requirement to cross trenches up to 7 meters wide. The tank was multi-turreted like FCM F1; however, unlike FCM F1, ARL C had the main turret in front of the very long hull right behind the secondary turret, not in the back of vehicle. The development path of the ARL C was extremely complex, due to the existence of a number of parallel super-heavy tank projects with overlapping design goals, the specifications of which were regularly changed. For each project in turn several companies submitted one or more competing proposals.
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