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Char léger Modèle 1935 R ("R 35")
R 35 in the Yad La-Shiryon museum
Type
Light infantry tank
Place of origin
France
Service history
Used by
France
Romania Poland Turkey Israel Kingdom of Yugoslavia Nazi Germany Italy Bulgaria Hungary Switzerland Australia Syria
Lebanon
Wars
Second World War 1948 Arab–Israeli War 1958 Lebanon Crisis
Production history
Designed
1934
Manufacturer
Renault
Produced
1936–1940
No. built
R 35: 1,540 "R 40": 145 approx.
Specifications
Mass
10.6 metric tons
Length
4.02 m (13 ft 2 in)
Width
1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Height
2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)
Crew
2 [1]
Armour
43 mm
Main armament
37 mm L/21 SA 18 gun
Secondary armament
7.5 mm MAC31 Reibel machine gun coaxial
Engine
Renault V-4 gasoline engine 82 hp [1]
Power/weight
8.0 hp/tonne
Suspension
Horizontal rubber cylinder springs
Operational range
130 km
Maximum speed
20 km/h (12 mph)
The Renault R35, an abbreviation of Char léger Modèle 1935 R or R 35, was a French light infantry tank of the Second World War.
Designed from 1933 onwards and produced from 1936, the type was intended as an infantry support light tank, equipping autonomous tank battalions, that would be allocated to individual infantry divisions to assist them in executing offensive operations. To this end it was relatively well-armoured but slow and lacking a good antitank-capacity, fitted with a short 37 mm gun. At the outbreak of the war, the antitank-role was more emphasized leading to the development and eventual production from April 1940 of a subtype with a more powerful longer gun, the Renault R40. It was planned to shift new production capacity to the manufacture of other, faster, types, but due to the defeat of France the R35/40 remained the most numerous French tank of the war, about 1685 vehicles having been produced by June 1940. At that moment it had also been exported to Poland, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia. For the remainder of the war Germany and its allies would use captured vehicles, some of them rebuilt into tank destroyers.
^ abWhite, B.T (1983). Tanks and other Armoured Fighting Vehicles of World War II. Peerage books. p. 91. ISBN 0-907408-35-4.
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eventually result in no less than three production types: the Hotchkiss H35, RenaultR35 and FCM 36. However, even in 1926 the project had been seen as more of...
1939 AMX presented its new suspension system. It resembled that of the RenaultR35, with two bogies, horizontal springs (though with oil dampening) and...
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of defence on 9 December. Even before Plan 1931 was put on paper, Louis Renault was informed of its probable contents. In the autumn of 1931, he ordered...
that now houses the Channel Islands Military Museum. This turret from a RenaultR35 was originally employed on a Tobruk at Saint Aubin's Fort, Jersey. Modern...
Sitterswald [de] (occasionally called "Hitlersdorf" in some French reports). Four RenaultR35 tanks were destroyed by mines north of Bliesbrück. By 9 September, the...
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