page_title: Panhard AML
section_title: Middle East
hierarchical_section_title: Panhard AML / Service history / Middle East
caption_attribution_description: Panhard AML-90 at the Israeli Armoured Corps/Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Latrun, Israel.
context_page_description: The Panhard AML is a fast, long-ranged, and relatively cheap armoured car with excellent reconnaissance capability. Designed on a small, lightly armoured 4×4 chassis, it weighs an estimated 5.5 tonnes—much lighter than a tank—and is therefore more suited to rapid airborne deployments. Since 1959 AMLs have been marketed on up to five continents; several variants remained in continuous production for half a century. These have been operated by fifty-four national governments and other entities worldwide, seeing regular combat.
  The AML-245 was once regarded as one of the most heavily armed scout vehicles in service, fitted with a low velocity DEFA D921 90 mm rifled cannon firing conventional high explosive and high explosive anti-tank shells, or a 60 mm breech loading mortar with 53 rounds and dual 7.5mm MAS AA-52 NF-1 machine guns with 3,800 rounds, all mounted coaxially in the turret. An AML is capable of destroying targets at 1,500 meters with its D921 main gun. In this configuration it is considered a match for second-line and older main battle tanks.
  AMLs have appeared most prominently in Angola, Iraq, and Chad, as well as in the Lebanese Civil War between 1975 and 1990.
caption: Plinthed Israeli AML-90 at Yad La-Shiryon.
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