ARL-44, France's King Tiger | Cursed by Design

Download and play Call of War now and get a special bonus for the next 30 days: https://callofwar.onelink.me/q5L6/COO...

Today we look at the story of the ARL-44, a tank originally designed during the second world war by the French under German occupation. Using design elements from pre-war vehicles this tank helped France emerge from years of occupation with their tank industry still somewhat intact.

Merch: coneofarc.gunjigraphics.com

Buy military themed brick sets from COBI and more at WarBricksUSA with code coneofarc5 to save 5%: https://warbricks.com?ref=1727

Sources:
Chars de France by Jean-Gabriel Jeudy: https://amzn.to/3Au0Wrx
Documents from Châtellerault AA 503 1H1 26 via Colasix
Work-in-progress article for Tanks Encyclopedia by Marisa Belhote

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/sarl42/
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/03/t...
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/b40/

Social links:
My Website: https://www.coneofarc.com/
Discord:   / discord  
Xwitter:   / coneofarc  
Instagram:   / coneofarc  
TikTok:   / coneofarc  

Things I use:
Camera: https://amzn.to/2OppVnR
Editing software: Sony Vegas 17 https://amzn.to/3kOwtIu
PC Hardware: https://www.amazon.com/shop/coneofarc...
Recording Equipment: https://www.amazon.com/shop/coneofarc...
You can check out more stuff I use on my Amazon Store:
https://www.amazon.com/shop/coneofarc

Provided links are affiliate links which allow me to earn from qualifying purchases

Want to send me something?
ConeOfArc
PO Box 305
Thompson, CT 06277

Or support the channel using Crypto:
BTC- bc1qjs2fqh6zupnwzjhyd9kjvqfld728sqnea4r67s

ETH- 0x5547e17113640c162Ded5B664155227058060C54

Thanks to my ConelyFans:

Colin Francis
will marlatt
ThatHusk
Blue Knight
Pervitin
ivan kalinic
Rusty Tanks
BruhMcGG
Deadly Windex
Michał Figurowski
Ivan Velazquez
Limmy K
Eleazar Mendoza
Calvin Logsdon
PatataWuena
Steven G
Jan Ram. Dodge2727
Ivan
Paul Walsh
O D
Sukoshi Tiger
Yuk-Luen Man
Flying Pachyderm
pompomchan
Braňo Kohút

Become one today and get a Cone badge next to all your comments as well as other spicy perks!
   / @coneofarc  

Some music provided by Epidemic Sound.
License music for your videos without fear of copyright claims
https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra...

Timestamps:
0:00 - 1:05 Intro
1:05 - 2:10 Call of War
2:10 - 6:05 Development in secret
6:05 - 7:40 ARL-44 ACL-1
7:40 - 11:40 ARL-44 design and production
11:40 - 13:20 Fate of the ARL-44
13:20 - 14:29 Outro

#history #france #tanks