Tank Chats #133 | Renault UE Chenillette | The Tank Museum

The Universal Carrier's French half-brother. Papa Carden-Loyd really got around.

Let's see the Chieftain can fit in one.
Oh bugger, the baguette tankette is on fire.

i love how willey goes into the development history and service history in such depth.

With those domes, it reminds me of Tintin's moon rover.

this vehicle doesn't have cupolas for the crews heads, these are external helmets

The Chenillette, a French vehicle that was used more by the Germans than the French.

The Panther, a German tank that was used for much longer by the French.

The only thing missing from this is watching David try to squeeze into it. I'd love to see David Willey and David Fletcher crew one in the arena.

This looks like it would be brilliant to take out for a spin like a go kart. But never would want to be in it, in a war setting. Cannot believe how ground hugging this is when David Willey is standing beside it!

Uploads from forgotten weapons (Featuring ‘the chieftain’ and a T-62), and the tank museum at the same time? What decision to have to make!

"If you see a red light- stop !" .. truly, a French designed vehicle.
Thanks, an excellent review of a ubiquitous piece of kit.

The 20s and early 30s were definitely the adolescent years for armor. They aren't cute babies. They aren't confident adults. They are zit-covered teens.

I would love to own one of these. I've learned more from this channel in the past 4 years then I have the whole time I was in school

Thank you Mr. Willey. This felt really relaxed but comprehensive and took me back to the much-missed Garden Chats. :-)

If this is what I was given during the war (said in uncle alberts voice of course), as soon as the light communication system was explained to me, I'd have realised we were going to lose.

Imagine the "twang" if that cover gets hit...right next to your ears :O

It's Friday and I've got a 23min Tank Chat. Game on.

Very interesting! I've been looking into these after finding notes from my grandad who said that when in France just before the end of the war, he and a few friends found one of these and repaired it so they could get round the airfield quickly! They used it mostly because as radio operators/ fixers they were camped right at the end of the airfield making it a long walk to the main area! It was either this or a similar sort of vehicle.

Miss you sat at the car boot sale telling us about tanks and selling your goods. Bring back the garden chats. ;-)

Fascinating. Thank you, Mr. Wiley, and the Tank Museum, for this exposition on this very interesting vehicle I'd never heard of before. One explanation for the request by the U.S. Army, in the late 1930s, for the jeep was that they were looking for a motorized replacement for the horse, not for the infantry, but for cross-terrain travel, supply, and general (Jeep=GP=general purpose) getting about. It seems to me that the Chenillette served a similar function for the French army, ie, a replacement for the horse, especially in its role of towing weaponry and resupply or combat troops.

Im first wow. Like the finnish T26 and the SU 76 in the background. The chenillette is an interesting vehicle seen a few of these popping up on the internet recently.