Cramped yet practical and innovative, innovative that it became the reference of all tanks today.

So, thanks to this video, I ever learned that this style of idler wheels is actually wooden. Now I shall use this knowledge to make my model of the tank cooler more unique.

We appreciate the job you have done for this tank ! Congratulations and we are very proud to have help you in, thanks you for your mention. Didier.

I am so much grateful to you guys for keeping memory of the history of the American military. God bless you!

@asdf9890

12 күн бұрын

But…it’s a French tank.

This tanks is just unbelievably cool.

Fantastic job on the restoration. I'm making a model of one now and that kind of info is invaluable.

Wow. I just found this video. I am so excited. This is my "favorite" tank. And I still learn new things 🙂

Those wooden idler wheels look beautiful.

@deck614

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and they are lighter for more instant torque - and easy to produce and fix, I think.

Super travail de rénovation. L'un des plus beaux chard au monde bravo félicitations 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷👍👍👍👍👍

Very innovative and versatile. Yet I have nothing but respect for the men who would actually drive and fight with this machine.

french have always had the best battle tanks and jet fighters in the world anyway;; this battle tank is a legend !!! so many during wwI to beat germany

@binxbolling

11 ай бұрын

Always? Lol.

@Linus-_-

3 ай бұрын

Are u Sure they always hat the best ? Because WW2 says no And btw the french Tanks. Also werent the best in WW1 because in ww1 the best Tank was probably the british Mark V And dont get me wrong french tanks were good in WW1 And WW2 just not the best And to the jet Thing in WW2 the germans hat the only Jets And today the best Jets are the American f22 f15 And f35

Historic and precious vehicle, thanks for your passion and care on it.

Amazing job. This is so unique. Thanks a lot for restoring this piece of history !

Beautiful rebuild... well done, guys !

le char de la victoire.

Wow, absolutely amazing restoration. I live in cstat so I'll have to come check this out!!

Wonderful job of keeping history alive. I also hope you have an open invitation for the Chieftain.

Thank you very much, gentlemen, for this video, because even the best books won't show as well how this tank works, it's really amazing to find out so much informations about my favorite tank from over 100 years ago, great job!

Thanks for sharing this nice video. A great work done with the machine.

Very cool tank, great video. FT was very innovative for its time.

Good job, it's a beautiful piece of engineering....!

This is absolutely incredible thank you for sharing

Great job of this little war machine. Kudos from France!

It's amazing how complex this little tank was, especially in that time

the exact name is FT only, two letters, like all the Renault products of this era. No number. Mais, enfin, Bravo les gars, pour ce superbe travail !

Magnifique amazing fantastic work. Great design une inspiration pour les tanks avenir. Un grand BRAVO .

Thank you very much for this walkaround

Szacunek i podziw dla prawdziwego pasjonata. Rewelacja, fantastyczny materiał.

cute little thing. Greetings from Sweden

Crew comms are the interesting part of the tank!

This is a beautiful tank.

You *REALLY* underestimate how many of these were made and are still running.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

my favorite great war tank is the Renault tank. I'm still surprised how a tank constructed with rivets a bolts holds together

@Lapantouflemagic0

3 жыл бұрын

by being tiny and hard to hit 😉

Great work

My favorite tank in bf1

Great Job. Bravo :)

WOW cool tank awesome camo scheme

awesome well done guys

Très belle restauration. 👍

Il est beau , impeccable !!!

The camouflage is beautiful

It's beautiful

That tank has always had a futuristic look despite the fact it is the first with a modern tank architecture.

Pretty cool!

with that size, its like a rolling coffin. ITS THE MOBILE POD BALL AS A TANK!

Muy buen trabajo

Nice! I just made a Lego animation of the Renault vs. the Mark IV Landship.

What a great job! I simply cannot imagine being in that thing in combat. Imagine you are in a firefight and you stall the engine! Someone has to get out and drop the tail and then turn the crank. Oh my. And the wooden main drive wheel! One shot with a rifle and it would be firewood. I kept looking at it thinking why would they paint it to look like wood? They didn't because it is wood.

@kerdart351

Жыл бұрын

Raw wood is rarely set on fire just with a rifle shot on it.

@rudyyarbrough5122

Жыл бұрын

@@kerdart351 I was not thinking of burning but shattering. I've seen large caliber rifles destroy a living tree trunk and I believe it would do the same thing to this wheel.

With how easily the turret moves, I can imagine an enemy soldier running up and climbing on it, and stopping it from shooting their team or whatever just forcing it

@MP-wb5yd

3 жыл бұрын

ahah you first !

@popularfrontfortheliberati4299

3 жыл бұрын

Or better yet, climb up and open the turret's back doors and chuck a grenade inside, bye bye tanquette

@butchs.4239

3 жыл бұрын

FTs were used in groups, some of which carried the 37mm while others were armed with the Hotchkiss 8mm heavy machine gun. An enemy soldier climbing on a FT would draw fire from the other Hotchkiss equipped tanks in the group.

Wow. And it had the 37mm too.

what purpose does the "cap" on the copula serve if there are already vision slits on the lower part of the copula? also can it be opened?

Old Rhienbeck Aerodrome has one running since the late 60's.

I thought you could crank the engine from the inside as well. Yeah, the black box on the back of the drivers compartment with the hole in it, that has a roller chain and gears inside, it is connected to the crankshaft by a one-way gear. You stick your hand crank in the hole and crank the engine. They weren't going to make the driver get out in the middle of a battlefield to drop the tail down and hand crank the engine under fire. That was just easier for normal running than cranking from inside.

What were the two additional leather straps for on the right of the driver?

I don't get the wooden roller wheels on the front. I mean if that gets shot at wouldn't that just decimate it? Seems to be the weakest part of the tank or maybe its reinforced with steel inside.

Well now that 3D printing is so accessible and cheap, I hope you make a lot spare parts to keep in stock for the future and in case someone else contacts you looking for spare parts on other rebuilds.

awesome

Does the engine run?

wow nice

Do you have it in battleship grey?

Id love to make one of theses as owning a real one as you know would be very hard to find parts for.

@marlonparsons634

6 жыл бұрын

ShawnCFarm it's made from real parts from the real tank it's not fake and they didn't make it they just put it back together

Dans les années 1990, il y en avait un, sans sa tourelle, dans l'usine Renault de Issy-les-Moulineaux qui a du servir de "tracteur" (jusqu'à quand?). Qui a des infos?

Does it still shoot?

Wow!!

just like john deer 2656 combine first 1/2 hr greeing it befor the days work if recall 38 Zerks boy those where the day

Le tank le plus innovent de l'hsitoire , tout les taks acutèlle ce bas e sur lui. FRANCE

Yep... here dies the joke on French tanks having only one forward gear and 4 reverse ones... I have a question though: what happens with the empty casings once the shells are fired? Do they just pile up on the floor?

@TwoFistsOneHalleluja

2 жыл бұрын

My guess is that the gunner could throw it through that hatch at the back of the turret. See 8:59

@19Edurne

2 жыл бұрын

@@TwoFistsOneHalleluja How did I missed that? 😃

I suspect the other tanks in US are US m. 1917s rather than French FT 17s

How did the shifting lever connect to the transmission? I can't find anything useful on the internet. a video showing the linkages or a drawing would be especially helpful.

@thatguy.mp7950

Жыл бұрын

Nevermind, found a solution

Fantastic How much?

Rarest ? not the A7V ?

Why restored ? Why not conserving in original colored paint ? (my Grand father was a tankist in that tank in France. . )

And the sound????

Great video on a great tank...but I'm pretty sure that it's name is just FT, not FT-17.

Does anyone know what that black hatch thing in the back of the crew compartment is for?

@TheScaleModeller

7 жыл бұрын

Looks like a firewall access panel into the engine compartment

@jordanstewart2455

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheScaleModeller you are correct that is in fact a firewall for the engine. Edit: it also grants access to the gear box and internal stating handle.

How much would it cost to build (reproduce) a ft17 based of the blueprints?

@Upsidedownzack

5 жыл бұрын

assuming you have metal working and welding experience it shouldn't be that expensive the tracks though I am not sure.

@GoProXadventures

5 жыл бұрын

ʞɔɐz What about all the thick steel plating?

@amperzand9162

5 жыл бұрын

Bulk steel is cheap. Much, much cheaper than the cost of producing the machine parts and so on.

Vive la France

@PXGKOREA

5 жыл бұрын

vive la libertie

@zycien11.52

5 жыл бұрын

Vive la Poland

@MercenaryBRK

5 жыл бұрын

Não

I am not a preservationist in regards to this tank yes I think if original parts or tank in good condition can be found of course do so but I would much prefer a shell of the tank where everything is internally gutted out and make my own Frankenstein creation to demonstrate how well the concept is designed to see how far I can push its limits 1st diesel engine electric ignition which will give much longer range and increase speed to cruising of 10 mph Range 80 to 100 MI a 2pdr gun ability to mount Lewis gun up top I still think the concept of this tank modernized would be awesome The closest modern equivalent is the scorpion tank So take this tank think of what you could do with modern materials technology and weapons and see what you can create out of it my replica would not be exact but would resemble very closely the original tank

French Renault tank made With Irish Steel.

Lovely ft17. Can I have it?

My favourite vehicle in BF 1

Have you guys ever fired the cannon?

@themuseumoftheamericangi

7 жыл бұрын

Not yet. Waiting on AFT paperwork

@mate6116

6 жыл бұрын

The Museum of the American GI are you guys going to make a video of the tank driving around?

The only running privately owned FT in north America? What about Autopilik's FT ? The one that was seen in Mail Call? Is his a reproduction or did you buy his?

@kerbalaerospacelabs3445

5 жыл бұрын

c3pfett His is an American M1918 6-Ton Tank, the American contract version, those never saw service in the war. The one in the video is an actual French one, used by Americans during the war. I volunteer at the museum, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

@Zorglub1966

3 жыл бұрын

@@kerbalaerospacelabs3445 Sorry, i'm a bit late, but i have a question about the paint scheme : is it a US one or a French one?

@kerbalaerospacelabs3445

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zorglub1966 sorry for being a bit late to respond. From everything I’ve been told, the paint scheme was taken straight from the WW1 US camouflage manual.

@Zorglub1966

3 жыл бұрын

@@kerbalaerospacelabs3445 Thank you very much

Why is this not in a French museum i wonder?

Sugo I!

I don't know if you guys would know this, but could a tankgewehr penetrate a FT?

@archstanton5113

7 жыл бұрын

From a relatively close distance, yes.

@leneanderthalien

7 жыл бұрын

it's not only a distance problem: the most from the front steel plates make a angle to make the bullets ricochet of ...

@Lucas-xj3fh

5 жыл бұрын

@@archstanton5113 from 1 cm yes XD

@c3pfett

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, easily. The German K round (7.92) was an AP machine gun round and it could penetrate these tanks. A tank gewhare would do it with no problems

@JurassicRampage

5 жыл бұрын

@@c3pfett It can pen if you get a nice 0-20 degree angle shot on one of the plates. Once you start getting past that it won't have enough power. I'll get the exact tankgewehr stats later today once I get a chance.

does anyone know the camouflage name? im interested in building a replica similar to this in the future think this is my favorite tank

@pi9857

4 жыл бұрын

socom1660 let me know if you would be able to build me one too. Give me a estimation on how much it would be.

I know keeping the tank original with authentic parts is important, but i think you might as well have just built an identical modern replica with new parts and metal.

British get credit for deploying the first operational tank 'bu't the FT-17 is the basis of all tanks. If the British designs were of worth all would have adopted it - they weren't. The US Army mfgr them under license because they saw the uniqueness in all aspects. A great video and the most incredible design for its' time.

@HarryFlashmanVC

3 жыл бұрын

Comparing the trapezoid heavy tanks of the British army with this Renault is like comparing apples and oranges. The heavy tank was specifically designed for trench warfare and was designed to cross trenches and wire. Most other nations did copy the British design with varying degrees of success. The huge German heavy tank was impressive but lacked the ground crossing abilitiy of the trapezoidal tracks and tended to bog down. This is a light tank. WW1 light tanks were designed to esplout breeches in the enemy line AFTER the heavy tank had made the breech. A comparison you could make was the British Whippet tank against this Renault. The Whippet lacked a turret but was twice as fast as the Renault's 4.15 mph top speed. The Whippet had an excellent service record, a single troop of 7 Whippet tanks caught 2 German Infantry battalions in the open in March 1918 and wiped them out. 'Whippet' became a generic term for pre WW2 light tanks with English speakers all over the world referring to even RFTs as 'Whippets' . Tank design is all about compromise, the Whippet could have been equipped with a turret but that would have dropped the speed and the British wanted speed over a turret.

@rusoviettovarich9221

3 жыл бұрын

@@HarryFlashmanVC Well the Breeetish didn't adopt that turret did they and who gives a fig about the 'Whippet' - let's see the Breetish used them to suppress the Irish and some were donated to the Whites during the Russian Civil War and the Reds fussed with them for some 12 yrs or so alas no one used them same with the Mark trapezoid 'Jo Momma' behemoths....everyone took a look at the trapezoid and gagged and said "Oh no it's the daddy of the 'Whip-it good!' where's the faithful FT-18?....everyone likes that and uses the design to this very day." what?

@HarryFlashmanVC

3 жыл бұрын

@@rusoviettovarich9221 >>>>my point>>>>>> ^ ^ 30,000ft V V Your head

@kerdart351

Жыл бұрын

@@HarryFlashmanVC Most nations which had/have tanks adopted French tank design, and often bought FT tanks themselves, not Brit tanks. "Most other nations did copy the British design with varying degrees of success" is a lie, please explain why you said that.

schön panzer

Works at the museum - calls it a "Renault FT-17 tank". This is why I don't really believe anything anyone in a museum tells me, most of them are just are basically enthusiast volunteers. I appreciate what they do for the world, but they are not always right. There is no such thing as an "FT 17". There is the Renault FT tank. It served with the French and US armies. There is also the US M1917 tank, which is a copy of the FT. There is no "FT-17". Although it is better than the tank museum tour guide calling the M4 Medium's M1919 coax a ".50 caliber spotting rifle for aiming the main gun".

@kerdart351

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, FT-17 is the german designation of the Renault FT tank.

First tank with a Turret. Cast Turret and Ring. Really Light Armor would not even hold up against 1930s hunting rifle.

@EulHollandais

5 жыл бұрын

Désignés for one purpose. Cross that deadly trenches ans destroy machine guns

There is another working unit in Montana - kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4Sfr9BqZZusp9I.html

I wonder if anyone has the blueprints to completely replicate it

@harrymu148

3 жыл бұрын

I also wonder if anyone would want to remake one with modern civilian parts? stick in a cummins diesel engine, make some proper horsepower lmao

*of course its rare cause its the first tank ever built right?*

@stevenwright5220

5 жыл бұрын

Its not even the first tank with a turret, that honor goes to the Italian Fiat 2000 tank of which 2 were built. It is however the first tank with the idea of the engine being in the front, turret in the middle and driver at the front type of layout that would persist till today.

@TAMEREDUDESERT

5 жыл бұрын

@@stevenwright5220 the engine is actualy at the back, but I gess that that's what you wanted to say

@corsehaigazia

5 жыл бұрын

​@@stevenwright5220 Fiat 2000 1917 Renault FT 1916

The French got it right that time.

The FT is not rare ... c'mon, they're everywhere.

It looks like it has an awkward smiling face with the hatch handle as it's mouth 1:32

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