NEW FRENCH TANKS
HEAVILY ARMOURED
SUPERIOR TO BRITISH
LONDON, 16th February.
The "Daily Telegraphs. .military correspondent says that the whole problem of land armaments is vitally affected by a new French tank, which may prove as revolutionary as the German "pocket" battleship. , Whereas the British tanks possess only' eight millimetres thickness of armour, tho now French mystery tanks carry armour forty-live millimetres (about ljin) thick in front and thirtyfive millimetres round the turret, which is electrically driven. r ' Though they weigh sovonty tons, they . possess a speed •at least - ( eight miles an hour faster than that of any war-time tanks, though they are slower than the British lightly-armoured modern tanks. The latter can keep out rifle'and ■machino-gun bullets, but do not keep out the new armour-piorcing "bullets of .303-inch calibre. The new French tanks .could; defy all the British anti-tank machine-guns, and drive onwards, crushing, the helpless gunners.- '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 11
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148NEW FRENCH TANKS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 11
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