DONETSK REGION: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked French leader Emmanuel Macron for sending light combat tanks to Kyiv, and Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov was filmed riding in one. But a Ukrainian commander says the highly mobile AMX-10 RC infantry fighting vehicles - sometimes described a
"Just sending out the vehicles so they get destroyed, I consider it is impractical and unnecessary because it's primarily a risk for the crew," Spartanets said.
Open-source intelligence website Oryx, which tallies equipment losses based on battlefield imagery, has counted three losses in Ukraine of AMX-10 RC light tanks. They were developed in the 1970s, and French armed forces have begun to replace them with more modern vehicles called Jaguar.The battalion commander compared the French-built vehicles unfavourably with MRAP-type armoured vehicles such as the American Oshkosh and British Husky, which he said could resist a direct strike by rocket-propelled grenades.Britain sent Husky support vehicles last year.One had some minor shrapnel damage to the hood, which he described as a"weak" point.
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