![]() ![]() Later on, many more were acquired, reaching a maximum of 174 machines. Most of those involved in the battle of Warsaw and other events were French FTs which French or Polish crews. But they never saw action until the very end of the 1920 Soviet-Polish War. The Poles contracted the delivery of 23 FTs for the defense of their newly liberated country. Renault M26/27: a development of the FT with a different suspension and Kégresse rubber tracks a number were used in Yugoslavia and five in Poland.This version was sometimes referred to as the "FT 31", though this was not the official name. This modification started in 1931 on the 1580 chars mitrailleurs still in French stocks all the metropolitan guntanks were (at least officially) scrapped to build utility vehicles on their chassis and the guns used to equip the R 35. FT modifié 31: upgraded tanks with 7.5 mm Reibel machine gun.No armament, three-men crew, 300 ordered, at least 188 produced "TSF" stands for télégraphie sans fil ("wireless"). Char signal or TSF: a command tank with a radio. ![]() ![]() FT 75 BS: a self propelled gun with a short barreled Blockhaus Schneider 75mm gun – at least 39 tanks were produced.Char mitrailleuse: an FT with an 8 mm Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun – about 2/5 of tanks ordered, about 3/5 of tanks produced.Char canon: an FT with a 37 mm Puteaux SA18 short-barreled gun – about 3/5 of tanks ordered, about 1/3 of tanks actually produced. ![]()
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