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Skybird · 01-05-23, 07:14 PM

I think the french offer is half-hearted. The AMX-10RC is a wheeled light tank, and wheels are what in the coming mud of spring is inferior to tracks. It more or less will stick to roads. The French are phasing these tanks out anyway, are in the midst of the process. And the tank once may have been meant, in the early 70s, at the times of T-55 and T-64 and Leopard-1s and M-60s, to be a tank hunter (RC in this case stands not for recce, but for roue, canon: wheels, canon), but today it is not en par with modern MBTs, even T-72, if it meets them: no chance to withstand a shot from a T-72. The vehicles it likely should hunt, are APCs and IFVs. Maybe infantry support via HE rounds.

Mud will be an issue for it. remember how the columns of Russian APCs with wheels in the first days of the war last February - MTLBs, sticking to the road although they turned into turkeys that way? They could not negotiate the terrain off the road with those things.

01-05-23, 07:14 PM	#8991
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,727 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I think the french offer is half-hearted. The AMX-10RC is a wheeled light tank, and wheels are what in the coming mud of spring is inferior to tracks. It more or less will stick to roads. The French are phasing these tanks out anyway, are in the midst of the process. And the tank once may have been meant, in the early 70s, at the times of T-55 and T-64 and Leopard-1s and M-60s, to be a tank hunter (RC in this case stands not for recce, but for roue, canon: wheels, canon), but today it is not en par with modern MBTs, even T-72, if it meets them: no chance to withstand a shot from a T-72. The vehicles it likely should hunt, are APCs and IFVs. Maybe infantry support via HE rounds. Mud will be an issue for it. remember how the columns of Russian APCs with wheels in the first days of the war last February - MTLBs, sticking to the road although they turned into turkeys that way? They could not negotiate the terrain off the road with those things. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.