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  • Char G1
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  • The Char G1 was a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank. Several prototypes from different companies were developed since 1936, but not a single one had been fully completed at the time of the Fall of France in 1940. The projects represented some of the most advanced French tank design of the period and finally envisaged a type that would have been roughly equal in armament and mobility to later World War II standard tanks of other nations, such as the Soviet T-34 and the American M4 Sherman, but possessing several novel features, such as gun stabilisation, a semi-automatic loader and an optical rangefinder.
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Length
  • unspecified
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vehicle range
  • 200.0
Speed
  • 40.0
Secondary Armament
  • two machine guns
Name
  • Char G1
Type
Caption
  • Renault Char G1R mock-up in its second phase, as a 30 tonne tank
Width
  • unspecified
primary armament
  • high velocity gun
Weight
  • 20
pw ratio
  • unspecified
Height
  • unspecified
Armour
  • 60.0
Engine
  • petrol
engine power
  • unspecified
Suspension
  • unspecified
is vehicle
  • yes
Crew
  • unspecified
abstract
  • The Char G1 was a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank. Several prototypes from different companies were developed since 1936, but not a single one had been fully completed at the time of the Fall of France in 1940. The projects represented some of the most advanced French tank design of the period and finally envisaged a type that would have been roughly equal in armament and mobility to later World War II standard tanks of other nations, such as the Soviet T-34 and the American M4 Sherman, but possessing several novel features, such as gun stabilisation, a semi-automatic loader and an optical rangefinder.