![]() The huge majority of the French tanks (2251 tanks) are light tanks armed with the 37mm SA18 gun or only MGs. That makes 850 French tanks (27%) with an excellent to good anti-tank capacity. from the about 279 AMR33/35s, 259 are only armed with a single 7.5mm or 13.2mm MG and 20 AMR35 have a 25mm SA35 gun (AMR35 ZT2 and ZT3).only about 480 French tanks armed with a 47mm SA35 (including the B1bis tanks with their 75mm hull gun).That makes 3101 French tanks (if the 279 AMR33/35s are counted as tanks) : On 10th May are 2352 modern French tanks (2822 tanks with the obsolete FT17 and FCM-2C tanks) and about 609 armored cars or light reconnaissance tanks (330 armored cars and 279 light tanks). That leads to 1088 German AFVs armed with a good AT capacity (not counting the 6 8.8cm self-propelled AT guns). 965 tanks are armed with a 3.7cm or 7.5cm gun, 99 Panzerjäger I with a 4.7cm gun and 24 StuG III with a 7.5cm gun. 8 and at least 917 armored cars for a total of 3720 AFVs. ![]() On 10th May 1940, there are 2636 German tanks, 99 Panzerjäger I, 24 Sturmgeschütze, 38 15cm s.I.G.33 auf Pz.Kpfw.I, 6 8.8cm FlaK (Sfl) auf Sd.Kfz. Thanks to William Schneck I have a better idea of the number of French tank losses and of the causes of these losses. Probably not 150% accurate for all the numbers but it gives a good overall idea.
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