HB83895 HobbyBoss 1/35 [German 3.7cm Pak 35/36 auf Pz.Kpfw 35R(f)] Plastic Model Kit [83895]

The RenaultR35, was a French light infantry tank of the Second World War.Designedfrom 1933 and produced from 1936, the type was intended as a light infantrysupport tank, equipping autonomous tank battalions, that would be allocated toindividual infantry divisions to assist them in executing offensive operations.To this end it was relatively well-armoured but slow and lacking a goodantitank-capacity, fitted with a short 37 mm gun. At the outbreak of thewar, the antitank-r´le was more emphasized leading to the development andeventual production from April 1940 of a subtype with a more powerful longergun, the Renault R40. It was planned to shift new production capacity to themanufacture of other, faster, types, but due to the defeat of France the R35/40remained the most numerous French tank of the war, about 1685 vehicles havingbeen produced in June 1940. At that moment it had also been exported toPoland,Romania,TurkeyandYugoslavia. Forthe remainder of the warGermanyand its allies would use captured vehicles, some of them rebuilt into tankdestroyers.