French Army alternatives, 1935-40 (41?)

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France should have told Britain to either step up or shut up. The US has already abandoned the League of Nations and can pound salt. France needed an interwar hero, and one who could focus the nation's defence and economic capabilities. It would not have been good for the world, but perhaps France needed its own fascist or communist dictator to purge the elites, obstructionists and sloths.

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I read a book by an author named Holland on the Battle of Britain a while ago. The first chapter or two dealt with the Battle for France. It was painful reading about the incompetent senior French officials and generals. I stopped reading about it and skipped ahead.
 
What about FIC? What can we give the French forces there to counter Japan's invasion in 1940? The Netherlands was defeated in 1940, but the DEI carried on preparing their defences into 1942.

They could use the help…

Van Doos to FIC, Feb 1940

In Sept 1939 the BEF began moving into France. Meanwhile, noticing that FIC now had an aggressive Japan right on its borders, the British war cabinet suggests that a francophone regiment be sent to FIC to bolster the French forces there, and to show unity. Chamberlain calls up PM Mackenzie...
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tomo pauk Relative to this week's archive digging at Châtellerault, while I have found more new stuff than just that, I recall you had a pet peeve about French AA guns.

Well it turns out based on a note on the status of studies in 1938 that the Bourges arsenal was studying a 80mm gun with a muzzle velocity of 1000 m/s that could be mounted on a 75mm mle 32 carriage, while the Havre arsenal (IIRC) was working in cooperation withe Navy on a 90mm gun with a muzzle velocity in excess of 1000 m/s (1075 m/s). There is an inventory talking about a 70 caliber 90mm gun so I believe this is that.
 
Regarding my previous message, I have found the complete technical note by the Ruelle naval gun manufacturer about the 90mm L70 AA gun. The note deals mostly with the structural design to withstand the high service pressure of 340 MPa. Chamber diameter was 129mm to minimize ammo length. Two loading options were considered for 1000 or 1100 m/s.

What's more interesting is that contrary to what I thought, the 90 L70 and Army AA gun are different, though the design teams knew about the other.

The AA gun had a L62 bore. Two cases were considered, 120mm max diameter and 804mm length (1170mm complete ammo), and 108.3mm and 855mm (1221mm). The latter case is incidentally the same length as Flak 41's.
 
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