Due to the large selection of ft-17 kits available at RPM, I was interested in finding out a bit more on the "smoke variant" when was it made? and how many were produced?
Also could someone make a good list of all the wars the ft-17 or a form of it fought in and/or all the nations that had it or a variant? Its a trully amazing vehicle, that was not only first to have a modern tank shape but also a trully international tank with so many countries using it.
Steve Zaloga devotes 11 pages of his Osprey/Vanguard book to the FT in post-1918 service, including derivatives such as the 6-ton tank and Fiat 3000 and re-designations such as the Soviet KS and Japanese Type 79 Ko-Gata. I'll briefly summarize his information:
Russian Civil War: France (3rd Cie.,AS 303); Red Army (captured and KS); White Army (Deniken, Vladivostok, northern Russia)
Russo-Polish War: Poland
Eastern Europe exports: Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia (Fiats), Yugoslavia, Czechoslavakia, Romania
Western Europe exports: Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Brazil
Balkans/Middle East: France (against Turkey in Anatolia and Syria, Druze Revolt, Rif War); Iranian nationalists; Turkey (captured and French export, against Greece); Spain (Rif War)
China Station: Manchurian Army, USSR, Chinese National Revolutionary Army, Japan (Kwangtung Army), France (Indochina and Shanghai), USA (Shanghai)
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists, Republicans
WW2: Poland, France, Finland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Germany, Romania, Canada and Great Britain.