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The AMX-40 is a prototype French export main battle tank, developed during the 1980s based on experiences learned from the AMX-30. Despite the project’s ultimate failure to find a suitable buyer, the AMX-40 is bound to find an abundance of fans among War Thunder tankers, eager to put it through its paces in the upcoming update 1.79 “Project X”!
In short: The new French “top” continues with the traditions of the AMX-30 series. A fast tank, with a 120 mm cannon and 20 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, is also equipped with an excellent gun stabiliser (finally!).
Development of the AMX-40 began as a private venture of the French GIAT company in the early 1980s, with the aim to create a new export vehicle, in anticipation of an increased demand for military equipment from middle eastern countries. GIAT engineers decided to base the new vehicle off the AMX-32, which itself was an improved export version of the successful AMX-30 main battle tank. However, compared to his predecessors, the AMX-40 was to feature vastly improved firepower, mobility and protection. As a true first in the French postwar tank development history, the AMX-40 would receive a two-plane stabilizer for its 120mm smoothbore cannon. Although the tank’s turret and cannon were mostly adopted from the AMX-32, increases in weight from new components led to the fact that the hull of the vehicle had to be redesigned from scratch. The work on the first prototype was nearing completion in 1983 and the vehicle was first shown off at the Eurosatory exhibition in the same year. Following testing in 1984, two further prototypes were constructed, featuring a number of improvements over the first one. By now, the French Ministry of Defense had started to back the promising project and GIAT soon afterwards transferred all three prototypes for comprehensive troop assessments. A final, fourth prototype was constructed in 1985. Each prototype was unique, featuring a number of external and internal differences with the main one usually concerning powerplant options. In the late 1980s, the vehicle’s development stagnated as active development was largely replaced with an active marketing campaign, in an effort to find a potential buyer for the new vehicle. Despite France’s best efforts to market the vehicle, even going as far as showing off some of the prototypes in a competition in summer of 1986 in Saudi Arabia, a buyer couldn’t be found. Spain was the only country showing some interest in potentially buying the AMX-40, but in the end, nothing came out of it either. By failing to find a buyer, domestic interest in the AMX-40 also faded and eventually resulted in the project being closed in 1990. Ultimately, the four constructed prototypes of the AMX-40 can only be considered as transitional designs, bridging the gap between the old second generation French MBTs, like the AMX-30 and the upcoming modern designs, such as the Leclerc.
We have chosen to introduce the fourth and final prototype of the AMX-40 to War Thunder as one of the first additions to rank VI of the French ground forces tree. At first glance, the vehicle might show some resemblance to the familiar appearance of the AMX-30. This is hardly surprising when considering that that the AMX-40 is in essence just a further developed distant cousin of the AMX-30. With that in mind, tankers who have already had the chance to drive the AMX-30 should have a good rough idea of what to expect from the AMX-40 - good mobility and firepower, right? You’re right, sort of. It’s actually a lot better than that! If you thought the AMX-30 with its 700 horsepower engine was mobile, you haven’t seen nothing yet! Step forward, the 1,300 horsepower V12X diesel engine, capable of bringing the AMX-40 up to a blazing top speed of 70 km/h on roads, whilst still managing a respectable average of around 40 km/h offroads. However, having good mobility is all fine and dandy up until the point where your tank gets hit by an incoming shot.
So how does the AMX-40 deal with that we hear you ask? The known specifications about its armour protection indicate that it can withstand 76 mm rounds and RPG-7 shots in the front. We don’t possess all the information regarding its armour, and therefore, the protection of its game version has been reconstructed on the basis of a large number of photos and our measurements of the sample from Saumur. In-game, it consists of a spaced, two-block armour design on the turret and gun mantlet, and also combined and spaced armour of the front side of the hull. It is difficult to call such a defense as reliable - it would seem to only have enough protection against small caliber shells (76-90 mm) or HEAT shells with a penetration of up to 300 mm. Nevertheless, it should still fully protect against automatic cannons, HE round, and bombs, and can withstand hits from other shells at a greater angle.
Excellent mobility goes hand in hand with one thing in particular - equally excellent firepower. This is exactly what the AMX-40 has to offer. The AMX-40 is equipped with with a great French cannon where the ammunition includes HEAT and APFSDS shells with armour penetration rates sufficient to defeat absolutely any target on the battlefield. With a 20mm AA autocannon that proved itself as a highly efficient weapon while mounted on tanks that will easily penetrate the sides of any lightly armoured vehicles or even tanks. On top of all this, the AMX-40 offers something no other vehicle in the French ground forces tree offers - a two plane gun stabilizer. Thanks to this, commanders can fully reap the benefits of the tried and tested combination of mobility and firepower. You no longer need to worry about exposing yourself to enemy fire or wasting time when stopping to aim, as this is a thing of the past now.
Make sure to check out the new AMX-40 main battle tank coming to War Thunder in the upcoming update 1.79. Stay tuned to the news for more information on the next major update for War Thunder. Until then, tankers!
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Finally, France no more a joke at top tier. Amazing devblog!
Oh my, finally, Something that can dance with the Abrams/Challenger and other top tier mbts, I THANK YOU ALL
would it be possible to add the mars 15 90? maybe at 8,7 or something like that.
Perhaps the chance of us getting the T-80U or at least the T-80BV for the USSR tree isn't nil just yet. USSR is one of the three main nations. You can't leave it out of top tier…
Otherwise how can you justify the massive difference in age of these designs? The T-64B entered production in 1976, M1 Abrams in 1979, Leopard 2A4 in 1985, and Type 90 in 1990!!! That is a difference of 3–14 years, which of course means that younger models are much more technologically advanced and offer an unfair advantage, even if you pull their stats out of thin air.
brofessor79, 14 years isnt a lot, take a look at the FJ-4B fury to every other rank 5 jet
Why do US ge the Abrams, Germans Leo 2A4 but French only AMX-40, of which only 4 prototypes were built, and it would only have been exported anyways, it was never meant to actually be used by France. Why not Leclerc?
The Leclerc was designed to defeat T80 and T72, in a numerical disadvantage situation. The combat capability was not proven (we're all happy we never had a real "fulda gap" battle) but it's a very effective tank on paper and it would probably be too powerful for the vehicles we have right now.
Wasn't this tank only meant for export?
yeah but no-one bought it
So where is 500+mm penetration for OFL 120 G1?
and you get it in the 2nd dev server jesus yeah this things gonna be extremely competitive
Not what I expected when I read "Fire and Forget"...
You still need skill to kill ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
hallo gaijin can you add german vehicle Wiesel AWC pls can?
Sometimes, when I feel the urge to lose some games I play other nations than Russia. Maybe next time I like to lose and get totally reked I try this one...
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