AMX-13/75 - 81122
The AMX-13 project began shortly after the World War Two and was given
to "Ateliers de Construction d'lssy les Moulineaux". Prototypes
were started as soon as 1946, evaluated in 1949, and the deliveries began
to French "Armée de Terre" in 1952. The AMX-13 mainly reckons
with an extreme intervention speed and a fighting power associated to a
great precision. In the beginning equipped with a 75mm gun drawn from the
outstanding 75mm of the German "Panther", that makes it a good
tank fighter, the AMX-13 was later armed with SS-11 missiles. In addition
to the French "Armée de Terre" which used AMX-13 in Algeria and
during the Suez crisis in 1956, the main foreign user was Israel during
the wars in 1956 and 1967. |