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    France near Toulon, the contract for the development of a heavy tank, a char d'assaut de grand modèle. At the time, French industry was very active in lobbying...
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  • mathematics Any French tank (from char d'assaut), but more specifically one with a short designation such as: Char B1, a French heavy tank manufactured...
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    l'Urgence—La naissance du char d'assaut français, Annales des Mines p. 47; quoting Note résumant la question du matériel d'artillerie d'assaut, G.Q.G., 28 novembre...
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    Renault FT (redirect from Char Renault FT17)
    existence, and the term char d'assaut (from the French char - a cart or wagon, and assaut; attack or assault), soon shortened to char, had at the insistence...
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    Hotchkiss H35 (redirect from Char H35)
    "Sous le sable... un char d'assaut". Le Parisien. January 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2010. Bingham, Major James (1971). Chars Hotchkiss H35 H39 and...
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    Schneider CA1 (redirect from Char Schneider)
    meaning of "CA" is uncertain. Later it was usually understood to mean Char d'Assaut, literally "chariot" and today the full French word for "tank". However...
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    The name alludes to the code name "Chardasso" and is derived from "char d'assaut", the French term for "assault tank". He was the elder brother of Marcel...
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    Retrieved 2024-03-31. Lagneau, Laurent (2016-09-18). "Il y a 100 ans, le char d'assaut faisait sa première apparition sur un champ de bataille". Zone Militaire...
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    of Colonel J.B.E. Estienne, rejected in favour of char d'assaut ("assault vehicle") or simply char ("vehicle"). During World War I, German sources tended...
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    when he served in the French resistance, The pseudonym was a play on char d'assaut, French for "assault tank". In 1971, Dassault acquired Breguet, forming...
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