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The Renault FT, (later called the FT17 in WWII) was a French light tank that was among the most revolutionary and influential tank designs in history.
The FT was the first production tank to have its armament within a fully rotating turret.

The FT was developed in started in 1915, Renault would actually decline to develop the FT and Schneider company, would start on the development of the Schneider CA, which became the first French operational tank.

But in 1916 Renault started on the design of the FT, Louis Renault himself conceived the new tank's overall design and set its basic specifications.
The prototype did have some problems and only 84 were produced in 1917, some problems would never be solved and the FT would be plagued by radiator fan belt problems throughout the war.

These two FT tanks were restored in 2008, the FT now named Le Tigre was recovered by French Military Special Forces in Afghanistan and brought back to France in 2007, after the French discovered several FT Tanks in and around Kabul.
Several of these tanks went to America and one went to Poland.

Le Tigre originally carried a 37mm gun, but was restored with a machine-gun from the Ft next to it named La Victoire

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