![]() Hence, the decision seemed to have been taken solely on his personal authority. The French Army had no stated requirement for a heavy tank, and there was no official policy to procure one. At the time, French industry was very active in lobbying for defence orders, using their connections with high-placed officials and officers to obtain commissions development contracts could be very profitable even when not resulting in actual production, as they were fully paid for by the state. In the summer of 1916, likely in July, General Léon Augustin Jean Marie Mourret, the Subsecretary of Artillery, verbally granted Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM), a shipyard in the south of France near Toulon, the contract for the development of a heavy tank, a char d'assaut de grand modèle. The origins of the Char 2C have always been shrouded in a certain mystery. Development The Char d'assaut de grand modèle It was, in total volume or physical dimensions, the largest operational tank ever made. It was developed during World War I but not deployed until after the war. ![]() ![]() The Char 2C, also known as the FCM 2C, was a French post WWI heavy tank landship, later considered a super-heavy tank. ![]()
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