Frog Bat Chat | Batignolles-Châtillon DP2

The DP2 was a French amphibious tank designed in the 1930s by the Batignolles-Châtillon company. One of their first products, it would never be purchased by the French military.

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Sources:
Les véhicules blindés Français 1900-1944, Pierre Touzin, EPA editions, 1979
Tous les blindés de l’Armée Française 1914-1940, François Vauvillier, Histoire & Collection editions

An article by Marisa Belhote
Narrated by WOOD
Edited by Turn

[jlvfr]

In the 30s everyone and their cousin was spiting out tank designs...

[DeerHunter]

Until recently we had an anchor man in Syracuse NY named Rod Wood.

[teamidris]

Yep, getting out is the hard bit. It kind of looks like is was lowered? As though it had waaaay more ground clearance and then it didn’t meet some random speculation so the changed the bogie frames to lower it.

[cedjoe]

Automitrailleuse doesn't literally translate to armored car, though it was equivalent.

[alessiodecarolis]

The problem with amphibian tanks is that they are too light, with the PT76 I read that a"simple" .50 round can pierce his armour. Naturally with an hypothetical new material they could became feasible..
P.s. possible that these"genial" engineers didn't tought of some special engines' protections such as in USMC' Shermans to avoid engines' flooding?