Light tank Renault FT. Veteran of twenty armies and ten wars

In 2018, it turned one hundred years since the day the French light tank was released on the battlefield "FT, often called the" grandfather of all modern tanks". "Renault" FT is not just the most successful, the most massive and the most famous among tanks of the First World War. His layout scheme has become "classical" in world tank building. It served as a prototype for the first serial tanks of Russia, the USA, Italy. But "Renault" ft is not only an important stage in the history of armored weapons, but also a witness and participant in the stormy military and political history of the "era of wars and revolutions". Created and built in the conditions of the war, the Renault tanks later served in the ranks of various armies in different regions of the world - France, Spain, North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, Poland, the Baltic states, Belarus, southern Russia, Russian Far East, China, Vietnam. South America. Having played an important role in the battles of the last year of the First World War, “Renault” ft took part in several wars, including civil wars in Russia and Spain, colonial campaigns, Greco-Turkish, Chinese-Japanese and, finally, the Second World War. In the new book of the leading weapons historian, you will learn everything about the history of the creation, production and use of the Renault tank, its modifications and closest "descendants", about experienced machines related to people involved in the fate of the tank. The technical and tactical "heritage" of the tank is evaluated. Special chapters are devoted to the organization and service of the tank units of the French army, as well as the armies of other states operating "Renault" FT