French tank deliveries before and during the Second World War including exported vehicles and including those vehicles not yet delivered in June 1940 in the 1940 totals, but only giving the French materiel reserve for the FT-17 and excluding those types taken out of service: Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

 Total 1 September 1939 1939 1940 total Char 2C 10 - - 10 Renault FT-17 1580 - - 1580 Char D1 160 - - 160 Char D2 50 - 50 100 R 35 1070 200 331 1601 FCM 36 100 - - 100 Char B1 163 42 200 405 AMR 33 123 - - 123 AMR 35 167 - - 167 ZT2 - - 10 10 ZT3 10 - - 10 ZT4 - - 40 40 AMC 34 12 - - 12 AMC 35 22 23 5 50 Hotchkiss H35 640 130 322 1092 SOMUA S35 270 50 110 430 

 Total 4377 445 1068 5890 

The following points should be taken into consideration: Char 2C Alsace The Char 2C was a superheavy French tank from the First World War. ... General characteristics Length 5 m Width 1. ... In 1934 requirements were sent out for a tank to replace the FT-17. ... The AMR 33 is a light French tank, used in WWII. To counter the threat posed by the massive Soviet arms build-up since 1928, the year Stalin took power, the French government in 1931 planned the transformation of a part of the cavalry into a mechanized projection force capable... The AMR 35 is a French light tank used in WWII. Development of Renault ZT and Renault YS While his AMR 33 was not yet being delivered to the French army, Louis Renault used two production vehicles to improve the type. ...

• The total export number of modern tanks was 255. The total tank assets in France and its colonies were therefore perhaps less than 5635 during the time of the German offensive.
• Of the R 35 245 vehicles were exported; the production numbers of this type for June 1940 are unknown but amount probably to about two dozen tanks. The number given is that of the R 35's delivered on 1 June; about another sixty vehicles produced earlier might have been delivered that month as during a hearing in 1947 a total production was claimed of 1685. An alternative explanation is that the export of 54 vehicles to Yugoslavia in April 1940 was not subsumed under the 1601 total. About a hundred R 35's were used to equip two Polish battalions in France. The R 35 numbers include the R 40 variant.
• Of the AMC 35 production of fifty fifteen vehicles were exported to Belgium; both the still often stated total production number of 100 for this type and the number of 25 (or 12) for the Belgian tanks are now known to be incorrect. Two vehicles were later used to build prototypes.
• The often stated number of 200 AMR 35's includes the Renault YS (thirteen command and artillery observation vehicles), the ZT2 and the ZT3, but excludes the ZT4. The ZT4 production consisted of hulls only. In general for French tanks the standard turrets were produced separately; none were ever fitted on the ZT4. The ZT3 was not a tank but a tank destroyer.
• Three AMR 33 vehicles were used to build prototypes.
• The Char D1 number includes the ten pre-series "NC31" vehicles. One Char D1 had been rebuilt into an artillery radiotank.
• One Char D2 was being used for the development of a flamethrower.
• The Char B1 numbers include 34 Char B1 proper, two Char B1 ter and 369 Char B1 bis.
• The Hotchkiss H35 numbers include the informally named "H 38" and "H 39" variants.
• Of the Char 2C two vehicles had been cannibalised. There were about 1300 additional FT-17 chassis in use or being rebuilt as utility vehicles. Both types were obsolete tanks of WW-I vintage, so the total number of modern French tanks was over 4300 in June 1940.

The numbers given are those of the deliveries; actual production numbers were in general somewhat higher as the army would only accept those vehicles that could be used immediately to equip units and training lagged behind production. So the number for 1939 is lower than the actual production; e.g. the ZT2's were produced towards the end of 1939. This growing backlog led to a sudden release of tanks in May which is sometimes mistaken for a jump in production. However actual production in 1940 again lagged behind production goals: 477 for the last four months of 1939 and 1226 for the first five months of 1940 only. It was planned to build 3087 tanks in the last seven months: 840 R 40's, 373 Char B1's, 1750 H 35's and 124 S 35/40's. Self-propelled anti-tank vehicles, generally known as tank destroyers, are a type of armoured fighting vehicle, used primarily in the defensive role in destroying enemy tanks. ... German troops use a flamethrower on the Eastern Front during the Second World War French Foreign Legion combat engineers training with the flamethrower A flamethrower is a mechanical device designed to throw flames or, more correctly, project an ignited stream of liquid. ...

Armoured car and half-track AFV deliveries were:

 Total 1 September 1939 1939 1940 total AMD White TBC 86 - - 86 AMD Laffly 50 98 - - 98 AMD Laffly 80 28 - - 28 AMD Laffly S15 TOE 45 - - 45 AMD Berliet VUDB 32 - - 32 AMD Panhard 165/175 30 - - 30 AMD Panhard 178 219 69 239 527 AMC P16 M1929 96 - - 96 Total 634 69 239 942 

It was intended to continue production of the AMD 35 Panhard 178 at a rate of 60 per month.