French Char News Today

Tanks have had a big role in warfare for over a century, and while the main battle tank is still king, there've been a lot of different designs over the years.

Before the age of composite and reactive armor, the only way to make a tank stronger was to add inches of steel. This resulted in some incredibly heavy tanks.

WWI-built Char 2C remains the heaviest and largest tank ever to see operational service, despite its limited production of only ten tanks.

Teased earlier this month,

They had weak armor, were easily spotted, and didnt have good firepower. Heres What You Need To Know: These tanks were deadly, but to their own crews. Recently, a Russian military museum in Sverdlovsk unveiled a moving replica T-35 tank, recreating one of the largest tanks ever to see combat, though only  very briefly. Indeed, a few dozen T-35s charged straight into the largest tank battle in history—and none came back. Overtaxed transmission and faulty clutches proved a greater nemesis t...

One expects a ‘heavy tank’ to be heavily  armored—but the T-35s long hull made it prohibitively weighty to install thick armor plates. Heres What You Need to Remember: The multi-turret land battleship proved to be a blind alley in tank development—there was nothing one oversized and over-gunned tank could do that several, much cheaper armored vehicles couldn’t do better. Still, the T-35 amounted to an impressive icon of Soviet might—just not a successful war machine. Recently, a R...