Tank Chats #8 Renault FT-17 | The Tank Museum

Tank Chats playlist    • Tank Chats from The Tank Museum   The eight in a series of short films about some of the vehicles in our collection presented by The Tank Museum's historian David Fletcher MBE.

Conceived by General Jean-Baptiste Estienne and manufactured under the control of the Renault Company this was the world's first mass-produced tank, 3800 being built in all.

They went into action for the first time on 31 May 1918 near Ploissy-Chazelle and proved very successful when they were used in numbers. British forces used a few Renaults as liaison vehicles while the United States Army used them in combat and copied the design.

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