The authoritative text is backed by an impressive selection of imagesĪ book such as this one is really very strong and convincing.
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. It proved its worth in numerous small wars worldwide in the service of many countries. Its basic hull design lent itself to the development of a vast list of variants.įrench 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 represents French ambitions for national resurgence and withdrawal from wartime dependence on American military technology.īeing 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. The AMX 13 was originally designed in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
0 kommentar(er)
