<p>The best tank in the world in 1936 is not such a great thing to be in 1940. In this episode we take on the many tragic failings of what was on paper a very good tank, and the way it demonstrates the crucial weakness of France at the start of the Second World War.</p> <p>We also talk later in the episode about recent events in Ukraine, and as for the beer we review the Lindemans Pecheresse.</p>

The best tank in the world in 1936 is not such a great thing to be in 1940. In this episode we take on the many tragic failings of what was on paper a very good tank, and the way it demonstrates the crucial weakness of France at the start of the Second World War. We also talk later in the episode about recent events in Ukraine, and as for the beer we review the Lindemans Pecheresse.

30 - SOMUA S35. The best tank in the worst time

It's a podcast about tanks. Do you want to listen to people talking about tanks? If so this is the podcast for you! World Wars, Cold Wars, modern tanks, we cover them all while drinking a lot of beer.

Be warned though, we grapple with the politics behind the tanks, the economics, the industrial policies. Tanks are intensely political objects in both their creation and their use. 

So if you just want to hear dudes banging on about lethality, well, we've got dudes banging on anyway.

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It's a podcast about tanks. Do you want to listen to people talking about tanks? If so this is the podcast for you! World Wars, Cold Wars, modern tanks, we cover them all while drinking a lot of beer. Be warned though, we grapple with the politics behind the tanks, the economics, the industrial policies. Tanks are intensely political objects in both their creation and their use. So if you just want to hear dudes banging on about lethality, well, we've got dudes banging on anyway.

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