| Full Name | Char léger Modèle 1936 FCM |
| Class | Heavy Vehicle |
| Movement | 4 |
| Armor Value | 3 |
| Vs Infantry (RNG / FPR) | 5/5 |
| Vs Vehicle (RNG / FPR) | 4/4 |
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| Period | 1937-1940 |
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This Hotchkiss-built French light infantry tank had a crew of two and was equipped with a short barreled 37 mm L/21 SA 18 main gun and a 7.5 mm coaxial machine gun in a fully-rotating turret. Designed in the early 1930s, it featured welded, sloped armor--which was advanced for the time--but suffered from being slow (15 mph top speed) and armed with a gun of limited armor-piercing ability. Hotchkiss built 100 FCM 36s, and the French Army deployed only a limited number operationally by the time Germany invaded France in May 1940. Upon the fall of France in June 1940, the Germans captured 37 tanks of this type, designating them Panzerkampfwagen 737 FCM (f). The Germans did not use them in active service as a tank, but they did convert some of the vehicles into other types. They converted ten into Marder I tank destroyers in 1943, armed with the 75 mm PaK 40 anti-tank gun and designated 7.5 cm PaK40(Sf) auf Geschützwagen FCM(f); these vehicles saw service during the Battle of Normandy in 1944. The Germans also rebuilt twelve in 1942 as 105 mm self-propelled artillery, designated them 10.5 cm leFH 16/18 (Sf) auf Geschuetzwagen FCM (f).