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Originally Posted by braindead
Char B1 tank
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Close so close, but I will pass it off to you to keep it flowing
Between 15 November and 15 December 1939 the Lorraine (formerly known as the
Normandie), as the company command tank, was experimentally up-armoured at the Société des Aciéries d'Homecourt to make it immune to standard German antitank guns. The front armour was enhanced to 90 mm, the side to 65 mm. In this configuration weighing about
75 tons, the Lorraine had at that time the thickest armour of any operational tank and is probably still the heaviest operational tank ever. It (or possibly the Champange)was captured intact in 1940 still loaded on railcars as it was shipped to the front. it was taken to Moscow after the war but dissapeared in 1948.