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The TANGO_RD project aims to extensively characterize the physical behavior of Resistive Cylindrical Chambers (RCC), a new promising gas detector technology. This talk presents the three-year R&D program designed to deeply understand and optimize the RCC operational principles and to manufacture and test the first prototypes. We will first introduce the core characteristics, design advantages of the RCC architecture. Following this, the presentation will showcase the initial prototypes successfully constructed by the collaboration. We will report on their preliminary performance, highlighting the early results obtained from recent cosmic ray test campaigns. In parallel with hardware development, a dedicated software framework is being developed to accurately simulate the complex internal physics of the detector, including avalanche evolution and space charge dynamics. We will discuss these ongoing simulation activities and present the first preliminary comparisons between experimental data and Monte Carlo (MC) predictions that will guide the experimental research program of the TANGO_RD project.