UE
Country | France |
Manufacturer | Renault S.A. |
Primary Role | Transport |
Contributor: Alan Chanter
ww2dbaseBased upon the British Carden-Loyd carrier (qv) the Renault UE Chenillette (English: small tracked vehicle) was designed in France to be a lightly armoured supply tractor for French infantry units. Weighing only about 2 tons its carrying capacity, contained within a storage container located behind the crew compartment, was limited. This container could be tipped automatically but normally a tracked trailer was towed that could carry about 300 kilograms of extra stores. The trailer was open and unprotected and could be used with or without tracks. The Renault UE was powered by a four-cylinder Renault engine mounted between the two members of the crew in their fully enclosed lightly armoured (7 millimetres) compartment. While a version mounting a machine gun for the co-driver was built, most UEs were actually unarmed and intended purely as supply vehicles for a range of equipment such as mortars, towed anti-tank guns, munitions, etc. Some 5,000 were built for the French Army from 1931 and following the fall of France large numbers were seized by the Germans, with many being reallocated to other Axis partners.
ww2dbaseSources:
B. T. White: Tanks and other AFVs of the Blitzkrieg Era 1939-41 (Blandford Press, 1972)
Hugo Wilkinson (Senior Editor): Machines of War (DK London, 2019)
Ian V. Hogg & John Weeks: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Military Vehicles, pp 28-29 (Hamlyn, 1980)
Last Major Revision: Dec 2022
SPECIFICATIONS
UE2
Machinery | Renault 85 4cyl engine rated at 38hp |
Suspension | Leaf spring |
Armament | 1x7.5mm MAC 1934 machine gun |
Armor | 9mm |
Crew | 2 |
Length | 2.80 m |
Width | 1.74 m |
Height | 1.25 m |
Weight | 3.6 t |
Speed | 30 km/h |
Range | 100 km |
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