Renault FT [SEP] conflict
production. It played a leading role in the offensives of 1918, when it received the popular name of "Victory Tank".
The British Army used 24 FTs for command and liaison duties, usually with the gun removed.
Italy received 3 FTs in June 1918, but they did not see action and no other tanks were received until the end of the war.
Service history Interwar.
After the end of World War I, Renault FTs were exported to many countries (Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Estonia
used during the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916. Mechanical reliability was an issue, but the experiment proved its worth. Within a year, the British were fielding tanks by the hundreds, and they showed their potential during the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917, by breaking the Hindenburg Line, while combined arms teams captured 8,000 enemy soldiers and 100 guns. Meanwhile, the French introduced the first tanks with a rotating turret, the Renault FT, which became a decisive tool of the victory. The conflict also