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The EBR is an 8x8 wheeled reconnaissance vehicle based on the previous Panhard AM 40 P/Model 201, a light armored car born before the Second World War, but remained only at prototype level. After the war the new contest for a postwar armored car saw the Panhard proposal as winner against two other French firms.
[51] 17 M1151A1/A2 D 4x4 m/2009. [51] Panhard M11 France: Scout car: 38: The Portuguese Army currently fields 38 Arquus Ultrav M11D/VBL 4x4 protected scout vehicles. [51] The fleet includes [50] [52] 12 units with MILAN F2 ATGM and M1919A4 machine guns; 19 units with PL127/40 turret with an M2HB Browning; Unknown units with AN/PPS-5B and ...
French cold-war era Armoured personnel carrier The EBR ETT was a troop transport variant of Panhard’s EBR armoured car and it used many identical components. Testing of the two prototypes began in 1956 but the type was ultimately not used by France, although 28 were sold to Portugal, which is presumably where this example came from.
The division was created in 1955 as the 7 e Division Mecanique Rapide (7th Fast Mechanised Division), commanded by General François Huet and based in Constance (Germany). It was an experimental formation of the French Army and served to test of new structures and tactics for the expected nuclear battlefield and also new weapons, being the first large unit equipped with the new, light-weight ...
This led to the 8x8 Panhard EBR (Type 212) which entered service in 1950. [14] Similarly, in 1956 the French Ministry of Defense was persuaded to commission a replacement for the Daimler Ferret scout car. [3] Also manufactured by Panhard, the successor was the AML (Type 245) which entered service in 1961. [15]
The AMX-13 is a French light tank produced from 1952 to 1987. It served with the French Army, as the Char 13t-75 Modèle 51, and was exported to more than 26 other nations.. Named after its initial weight of 13 tonnes, and featuring a tough and reliable chassis, [1] it was fitted with an oscillating turret built by GIAT Industries (now Nexter) with revolver-type magazines, which were also used ...
Panhard 165/175 – interwar four wheel design [41] Panhard 178 [31] Panhard AM40-P – interwar experimental eight wheel design [42] Panhard AML- 4x4 with 90 mm main armament; Panhard VBL Véhicule Blindé Léger – a modern French scout car designed for reconnaissance; VBC-90; Vextra 105 – a modern 8x8 design. White-Laffly AMD – World ...
Turret of Panhard EBR. Whilst the oscillating turret was unsuccessful for the heavy tank, it proved more successful in allowing light tanks and armored cars to carry an unusually heavy main gun of 90 mm. In French doctrine, light reconnaissance vehicles were heavily armed and expected to also fulfill a role in defending the flanks of a main force.