The 'fast, modern machines' are equipped with 'powerful guns,' Ukraine's Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said on Tuesday.
French army soldiers ride in an AMX-10 RC armored vehicle as they take part in a demonstration at the Eurosatory international land and air defense and security trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, on June 12, 2022."We agreed to call the AMX-10 the 'sniper rifle on the fast wheels,'" Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
reported that Lecornu had not specified how many of the AMX-10s had already made their way to the front lines.said he had communicated his thanks to Macron for the decision to send"light" tanks and Bastion armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, adding Paris was"intensifying work with partners in the same direction."We took it for a spin together with our warriors, and we agreed to call the AMX-10 the "sniper rifle on the fast wheels.
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