Vehículos blindados - desde 1945 - Francia: libros - historia y modelos

À la fin de la guerre d'Algérie, le besoin d'une automitrailleuse légère se fait sentir. Ce livre va vous faire partager cette formidable aventure qui a commencé au début des années 1960.
Embarquer dans l'AML, c'est faire le coup de feu avec les marsouins et les légionnaires, au Tchad, au Liban ou en Centrafrique. C'est aussi accompagner les soldats tchadiens dans tous leurs combats en Afrique, depuis les assauts victorieux contre des aérodromes libyens en plein désert jusqu'à l'intervention aux côtés des forces françaises de Serval.
C'est aussi parcourir le monde pour décrocher d'importants contrats commerciaux, avec les spécialistes de Panhard.

Ce livre est avant tout un recueil de témoignages. Puisque, finalement, qui mieux que les hommes qui l'ont conçue et servie peuvent s'exprimer sur cette automitrailleuse. L'ouvrage s'appuie sur de très nombreux documents d'époque et de photos pour encore mieux saisir cette aventure opérationnelle, technique et humaine.

In the history of armoured fighting vehicles few have been so successful or extensively employed as the French-built Panhard AML armoured car, which was first used during the war in Algeria in the early 1960s.
Since then the AML has fought in numerous wars around the globe, notably in the Middle East and Africa, and up to the present day with ongoing operations against Boko Haram in Nigeria and Chad.

The centrepiece of this manual is the French Army Re-enactment Group's Panhard AML 60 and 90 vehicles, which have been fully restored to running condition.

Issu d'une demande de l'armée française, l'AML Panhard domina le marché de l'armement dans les années 1970 en devenant l'engin de combat préféré des pays africains pendant vingt ans.
L'AML et toutes ses variantes ont été en service dans 52 pays et sert aujourd'hui encore dans plusieurs pays.
Ce livre rend hommage à une arme d'ores et déjà légendaire qui a contribué de manière significative à la défense des intérêts français ainsi qu'à de nombreuses opérations lointaines en Afrique et au Liban.

L'auteur décrit ici le développement et la construction de l'AML Panhard, ses nombreuses variantes et ses innombrables engagements au combat. Il y ajoute un rare témoignage sur la récupération et la restauration des Panhard 60 et 90 ex-armée française qui sont remises en parfait état de fonctionnement.

Edition française du livre Haynes "Panhard Armoured Car Enthusiasts' Manual".

French experience with armour in Indo-China dated back to 1919, when it sent FT-17s to the colony, followed by a variety of armoured cars.
After World War II, French troops were equipped with a motley collection of American and cast-off British equipment until the outbreak of war in Korea saw an increase in military aid. This included large numbers of the M24 Chaffee light tank, along with amphibious vehicles such as the M29C Weasel and LVT4 Buffalo, to conduct operations in coastal and inland areas that the Viet Minh had previously thought immune to attack.

France's armour was a key part of the battle against the Viet Minh right up until the last stand at Dien Bien Phu.

The AMX 13 was originally designed in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It represents French ambitions for national resurgence and withdrawal from wartime dependence on American military technology.
Being a light tank it was an ambitious and far sighted departure from conventional tank design and it found a ready export market as well as being a critical part in the French Army arsenal.

Its basic hull design lent itself to the development of a vast list of variants. French designers progressively modernised, and indeed reinvented, the AMX13 and enabled it to claim to be one of the most successful armoured vehicle programmes of the post-war period. It proved its worth in numerous small wars worldwide in the service of many countries.

This, the first commercially published work on the AMX13 in English, examines in detail the technical industrial and tactical story of this remarkably successful armoured fighting vehicle. The authoritative text is backed by an impressive selection of images.

Du projet de la DEFA (Direction des études et fabrication d'armements, organisme étatique en charge des arsenaux) va naître l'AMX 30, un char très mobile, capable de combattre en ambiance NBC et doté d'un excellent canon de 105 mm de conception nationale. Les premiers AMX 30B entrent en service en 1967.
Leur châssis est à l'origine d'une famille complète d'engins dont certains sont encore en service aujourd'hui, en France et dans le monde.

C'est cette histoire que nous vous racontons à travers plus de deux cent cinquante photos et dessins techniques, depuis les origines jusqu'aux dernières évolutions en passant par les multiples dérivés.

The AMX30 Char de Bataille was the standard French Main Battle Tank during the Cold War era. Initially the French and Germans attempted to develop a 'standard European tank' based on their experiences of the Second World War.
Both countries required a design that put mobility and firepower foremost at the expense of armour protection, but the joint collaboration failed to materialise with the result that the French produced the AMX30 and the Germans the Leopard 1.

The AMX30 was considerably lighter than its Anglo-Saxon contemporaries with a combat weight of 36 tonnes (hence its designation of AMX30). Again, unlike its NATO contemporaries that were armed with the British 105mm L7 gun, the AMX30 featured a smoothbore 105mm main armament firing a single type hollow-charge projectile - the OBUS-G - capable of defeating other battle tanks at normal combat ranges.

This book describes the development, construction and operation of the AMX30 family of vehicles.

The AMX-30 was used as the basis for a range of armoured vehicles that have seen extensive service in the French army and elsewhere. In this Photosniper, which completes the study of the AMX-30 series by M.P. Robinson, the stories of France's specialized artillery and engineer variants are explained.

The AMX-30D recovery vehicle, the GCT and Au-F1 series of self-propelled guns, the AMX-30R Roland and AMX-30SA Shahine antiaircraft missile launchers, the AMX-30 Bitube DCA antiaircraft tank, the AMX-30H Bridgelayer and the EBG armoured engineers vehicle are all covered in text and photographs.

France's comprehensive rebuilding programs that resulted in the development of the Au-F1TA, of the improved EBG versions and of sophisticated mine clearing versions of the AMX-30B2 in the decades since the end of the Cold War are also described.

This work is an excellent reference for the modeler with over 180 photos; these include examples chosen from GIAT's archives, photos of vehicles in everyday service, vehicles seen on the parade ground and in the desert wastes of Iraq.

The AMX-30 was France's principal battle tank for over 30 years and continues to serve the French Army in later forms even to this day.
In this first work of a two volume study examining the history of the AMX-30 battle tank, M.P. Robinson describes the development and introduction to service of this long serving weapon system.

Photographic coverage in Volume 1 is focused on the AMX-30B gun tank, its service life and the supporting vehicles that served alongside it in the Arme Blindée Cavalerie in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Over 150 colour and black and white photographs tell the story of this tank in its environment, as well as in detail, for the historian and modeller alike.

Conçu pour détruire les hordes de chars soviétiques dans les plaines d'Allemagne, le char Leclerc s'est révélé un remarquable outil de gestion des crises modernes grâce à ses performances exceptionnelles et son potentiel d'évolution.Formidable concentré de technologies, le char Leclerc, c'est dix-huit ordinateurs embarqués, la puissance moteur de deux Formules 1, un blindage impénétrable et un canon de 120 mm stabilisé capable de toucher une cible de la taille d'une affiche publicitaire à 4 kilomètres !
Demain, le Leclerc combattra en compagnie des robots, des drones et des fantassins numérisés, reliés entre eux grâce à un intranet tactique.

Ce livre retrace l'histoire de son développement, décrit toutes les versions y compris celles restées jusqu'à ce jour dans le secret des bureaux d'études, et offre aux amateurs de blindés et aux maquettistes toutes les informations nécessaires à l'accomplissement de leur passion.

The Leclerc is the only battle tank serving in operational combat units in the French Army. Designed as a Cold War era tank killer that could take on numerically superior enemies, the Leclerc has served the armies of France and the United Arab Emirates for over twenty years. Since 1989 when the first Leclerc prototype appeared, it has been counted amongst the world's most complex and deadly AFVs. Despite its fame, relatively little has appeared on the Leclerc in English, and much of the information about the Leclerc on the web is incorrect. Even in French, it has been ten years since the Leclerc was studied in a published work.

This book by MP Robinson and Thierry Guillemain is a survey of the Leclerc's development and service in the French Army right up to the present day. It explains the differences between the eleven Leclerc production batches produced for the French Army, the different Leclerc derived vehicles, and the changes that have transformed the French armoured force since the Leclerc first entered service.
This latest addition to the Kagero Photosniper series is illustrated with over 220 unpublished photographs and ten colour plates, making it an ideal reference for historians and modellers alike.