The SOMUA S35 was a French cavalry tank of the Second World War. Built from 1936 until 1940 to equip the armoured divisions of the Cavalry, it was for...

The Gendron-Somua AMR 39 was a prototype French armoured car. 12 years after the end of World War I, the French fleet of armoured cars was still made...

within a year: the SOMUA design resembled a cross between the SOMUA S40 and the Sau 40 self-propelled gun; it was basically a SOMUA S35 with better climbing...

Guerre, Blindés & Matériel, N° 86, p. 22-31 Stéphane Ferrard (2010). "Les SOMUA de l'Ombre (II) — Le SARL 42, char de la clandestinité", Histoire de Guerre...

several companies submitted one or more competing proposals. In September 1938, the ARL company was granted a development contract for the char maximum...

Mécaniques (mechanised light divisions) of the cavalry, equipped with the SOMUA S35. The First and Second DCR had 69 Char B1s each; the Third 68. The 37th...

moment the French Cavalry no longer itself intended to use the type (but the SOMUA S35 instead) and advised that priority should be given to the Belgian order...

built at a rate of three per month and the SOMUA S35 even yet having to enter mass production. On 26 June 1938 the tanks were individually named after great...

Poles were most interested in French SOMUA S35 tanks, but the proposal was refused by the French government. In 1938 the Polish Army bought one (according...

was already in development in this weight class. As a result, in February 1938 the specifications were again radically changed, and now called for a superheavy...