French Tank Destroyer AMR 35 ZT 3

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The Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance Renault Modèle 35 Type ZT (AMR 35 or Renault ZT) was a French light tank developed during the Interbellum
and used in the Second World War. It was not intended to reconnoitre
and report as its name suggests but was a light armoured combat vehicle,
mostly without a radio and used as a support tank for the mechanised
infantry.

The AMR 35 originated from a project in 1933 to improve the earlier AMR 33
by moving the engine from the front to the back. In 1934, a stronger
suspension was fitted and the type was chosen to replace the AMR 33 on
the production lines that year. Three orders were made by the French
Cavalry, totalling two hundred vehicles in five versions, including two
machine-gun tanks, two tank destroyer
types and a command tank. Later, ten were ordered of a radio
communication variant, the Renault YS, and over forty were built of a
tropical version, the ZT 4.