D1
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A column of Char Renault D1 medium tanks
Abandoned D1 number 56
Abandoned D1 tank 3
Char D1 and FT-17 tanks, 1940
Char D1 North Africa
Char D1 tanks 2
Char léger D1 white 07
D1 1940
D1 1940 2
D1 1940 3
D1 1940 5
D1 and M4 od the 2RCA Oran 1943
D1 code 44
D1 code 87
D1 front view
D1 front view 2
D1 in Ligny-en-Barrois
D1 number 12
D1 tank 1028
D1 tank 99
D1 turret
D1 white 62 of the 67e BCC
French medium tank D1 and Sd,Kfz 10 1940
German soldier posing in front of D1
German soldiers poses atop a D1 1940 4
KO'd French Char D1
Renault Char D1 coded 18
Renault D1 12 of the 67 BCC
Renault D1 18 of the 67 BCC
Renault D1 and Renault ACG-1 assembly line
Wehrmacht soldier with Char D1
The French plan of 1926 to create a Light Infantry Support Tank led to the development of the existing Renault NC1 prototype into the Char D1. The type was produced between 1931 and 1935 in a number of 160. There was a pre-series of ten vehicles; later 150 standard vehicles were built. Until 1936 the vehicles were fitted with FT-17 turrets because the intended cast ST2 turrets were not ready yet. The ST2 turret was armed with a short 47mm SA34 tank gun with a coaxial 7.5mm MG. The hull carried a 7.5mm MG in the bow. The type did not serve as an infantry support tank as originally intended, but as France’s major battle tank of the early thirties; it was quickly phased out in 1937 because of its mechanical unreliability.