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Friedrich · #13 (**permalink**) June 26th, 2003, 06:08 PM

Crazy is right. The Char-B was a very well armoured tank with a 75mm gun and another 45mm gun in a mobile turret. Both guns could knock out any German tank at the time... at least the 75mm one. The 45mm gun could knock out all the German tanks except the Mark IV. But let's remember that Marks IV in France were scarce and that the ill-armoured Marks I, II and 38(t) were not. The Char-B also was relatively mobile for a 32-tons tank in 1940... In the other hand, the Somua S-35 was an incredible machine: fast, reliable, well-armoured and had a good gun. Their main flaw was that the tank commander in both cases had to aim, load, fire the gun and command the tank... if we add that the French crews were not as well trained as the Germans and that the tanks were mostly scattered all over the front...