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After WW1, France was clearly among intellectual leaders in tank design. For example, it was the engineers at Renault, who created the Renault FT light tank — the first ever tank with what we now perceive as the standard tank layout. Alas, by the early 1930s it was already outdated, and none of the attempts to create a worthy replacement were truly successful. The Renault D1 and the D2 were simply unreliable, expensive and very heavy. That’s why after a while the French decided to issue a specification for
