Feast your eyes!

It's the Renault FT-17!

A cute-looking design, is it not!

While it might very well be that the world's first practical tank was created by the English,

The precedent for the tank designs that followed was set by none other than France!

English...

World's first tank...

Aha!

A tank that was manufactured by France in the First World War.

That was the trapezoidal tank that was run into the convienience store by Lady Warspite the other day, was it not!

Truly, a vehicle at the cutting edge of its era!

With such things as a rotating turret and separation of the crew and engine compartments, it was the adoption of an innovative design for the times!

The Renault Ko-Gata, yes?

Even the Imperial Army imported them - it seems that they were used both for combat and tank research. The guns were replaced with Japanese ones, then the tanks were used in the Manchurian Incident, and later for training tankers.