Struggling With Valor
Developed from mid-1930s as a cavalry tank, the SOMUA S35 used many cast steel parts to up production effectiveness; the bolted cast hull design had been certainly before its time. With a 47mm main gun and a 190hp V8 gas engine in which it might fit 40km/h, the SOMUA S35 ended up being a robust package. The greater amount of or less 430 examples produced between 1936 and June 1940 proved a worthy adversary for German forces during fighting in Belgium and Northern France, their balanced performance leading numerous to acclaim the S35 as the most easily useful tank available to France on commencement of WWII.
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