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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.
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 ...
[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 ...
Panhard 178 [31] Panhard AML; Panhard EBR; Panhard ERC; Panhard M3; Panhard VCR; Panhard VTT; Renault FT light tank (3694+; World War I) [29] Renault R35 – Two-man infantry support tank. Approximately 2000 built. Renault Type ZM. [34] Renault R40 – Improved version of R35. [33] Saint-Chamond heavy tank (400; World War I) [31]
Panhard was a French motor vehicle manufacturer that began as one of the ... an average of 185.51 km/h (115.26 mph). ... to 4845cc (20CV), and in price from 31,000 ...
MG 3: 7.62×51mm NATO: General-purpose machine gun West Germany: M2 Browning: 12.7×99mm NATO: Heavy machine gun United States: Heavy support machine gun used on tripod or mounted on vehicles. M1919 Browning: 7.62×63mm NATO: Medium machine gun United States: Limited use. Sniper rifles KAC 110: 7.62×51mm NATO: semi-automatic sniper rifle ...
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]
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.