FCM2C 3D PRINTING ARMORED

FCM2C 3D PRINTING ARMORED
 The FCM 2C tank is a super-heavy tank designed at the end of the First World War. It was never able to be used in combat. Designed at the end of the Great War to replace the Saint-Chamond tank and participate in the major offensives planned for 1919, this super-heavy and heavily armed tank was to be able to cross trenches of 5.20 m - the width of a lock on the canals of northern France - and crush enemy strongpoints without artillery support. Faced with the technical and industrial problems of this program, which was too ambitious for the capabilities of a French military-industrial complex already engaged at the maximum of its capacities, General Jean Estienne requested, in January 1918, no less than 700 of these "land battleships" intended for assault artillery. Only ten were finally built by the Forges et chantiers de la Méditerranée in its shipyards at La Seyne-sur-Mer from 1919 and delivered in 1921. They were used in propaganda documents where their overwhelming mass impressed the public, both French and German. Its excessive mass seriously tested its mechanics, requiring it to be transported by rail2. It should have been replaced in the 1940s by the FCM F1, a super-heavy tank weighing over 140 tonnes.