Talk:AMX-50

message: This article is translated from the article at it wikipedia, and owes its existence to it wikipedia editors, any mistakes inaccurracies that have crept into this article during the process are mine.KTo288 (talk) 02:16, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice article! But it needs more context ;o).--MWAK (talk) 07:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for doing so.KTo288 (talk) 00:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Credit

message: Currently the article says: "The French engineers had not been aware at first that the much admired German overlapping design had been motivated by a shortage of high quality rubber, necessitating large road wheels to lower tyre tension, which then were made overlapping to better distribute the load pressure."
This does not match what I have read so far about the German style of overlapping roadwheels ("Schachtellaufwerk"). While Germany did suffer from increasingly severe rubber shortages throughout the war, this was not such a major concern in the earlier years. Indeed, the Schachtellaufwerk was introduced before the war in German half-track vehicles. 
Its use in tanks, starting with the Tiger, was motivated by better drive stability (more wheels resulting in more ground contact and hence a smoother ride) and better ground clearance due to larger wheels - the latter inspired by the large-wheeled Soviet T-34 (early Tiger prototypes used small overlapping wheels). The German overlapping-style tanks also used wider tracks to minimize ground pressure (due to early bad experiences with muddy Russian terrain), and hence used more wheel rows to cover the full track width (the Tiger had four rows). That means the Schachtellaufwerk maximized the amount of rubber required (many large wheels instead of few small).Elanguescence (talk) 14:52, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlapping roadwheels due to rubber shortage? 

message: This article needs to have more references. –Vami_IV✠ 18:39, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: A number of these are now added.--MWAK (talk) 06:12, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Start assessment

message: Sorry about all by bad edits latly but a changed text below the photo in section AMX 50 "120 mm" from AMX 50 to An AMX 50 in Musée des Blindés.
IS that useful for once?
:Little changes are valuable too!--MWAK (talk) 06:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Just a regular edit

message: The transmission for the AMX M4 was developed for the French Army in 1945 by ZF Friedrichshafen. It was a modern 5 speed manual gearbox with a 2 radii double differential steering (Überlagerungslenkgetriebe) integrated.  It was called M-4 by ZF and a forerunner of the later hydrodynamic Leopard 1 transmission ZF 4 HP 250 with planetary gearbox.  It has nothing in common with the german transmission ZF AK 7-200 of the Panther-tank. The first version of the AMX 30 had a M-4 related transmission.
Maicomania (talk) 20:21, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  M4 Transmission by Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen (ZF) from 1945 

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