Live demonstration at Rétromobile 2022: the Musée des Blindés de Saumur presents the AMX 10 PAC 90 amphibious tank

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Press release

This year at Salon Rétromobile, the Musée des Blindés de Saumur team will present a 1979 AMX 10 PAC 90 tank in live demonstration. In its era, this high-performance French armoured vehicle was equipped with a  formidable high-speed anti-tank gun that fired hollow charge projectiles at a speed of 1,000 m per  second. Visitors will be invited to watch this tank start up and manoeuvre.

- Commissioning: 1979

- Length: 6 m

- Width: 2.80 m

- Weight: 14.5 tons

- Crew: 3 men

- Fully sealed aluminium body: amphibious, nuclear, biological, chemical protection

- Armament: one 90 mm cannon - 30 shells; one 7.62 mm 3,200-round machine gun

- Diesel engine: Hispano Suiza 280 hp - turbocharged V8 - 8,200 cc

- Water jet propulsion

- Fuel tank: 528 litres

- Range: 600 km

- Speed: 65 km/h

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