Major Spartanets claims that his soldiers underwent a month's training in France to learn how to use the vehicle, but that this was not enough to fully master it. The Oryx website, which tracks equipment losses on both sides based on images published freely on the internet, claims that at least three AMX-10 RCs have been "abandoned" after being rendered unusable during fighting at the front.
The AMX-10 RC is not, however, designed "for combat against battle tanks with heavier guns", he added, pointing out that its armour was too weak to cope with "all the anti-tank weaponry of the modern battlefield". "Sending these vehicles (to the attack) to be destroyed is (.) pointless because it is a risk mainly for the crew", said the officer, without specifying the number of these French armoured vehicles in his brigade. He refused to show AFP any AMX-10 RCs deployed at the front.įrench military expert Michel Goya noted on Twitter in January that the high mobility of these armoured vehicles made them very useful "for use in 'fire brigade' units behind the front line" or for quickly exploiting gaps in the front line. According to Major Spartanets, some AMX-10 RCs also have problems with their gearboxes, perhaps, in his opinion, due to their use on dirt roads.
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