VBC-90

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VBC-90

Place of origin	France
Specifications
Weight	13.75 tonnes
Length	5.63 metres
Width	2.50 metres
Height	2.92 metres
Crew	3

Main armament	90 mm gun
Secondary armament	7.62 mm machine gun
Engine	Diesel 6 cylinders 235 shp
Suspension	6x6 wheel

The VBC-90 (Véhicule Blindé de Combat - armoured combat vehicle) is a 6x6 armoured car equipped with a 90 mm high velocity gun in a GIAT TS 90 rotating turret.

It equips the armoured squadron of the Mobile Gendarmerie, with 32 units built.

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Presentation (French)

v d e Modern French armoured fighting vehicles

Tanks & Armoured Cars	Leclerc — AMX-30 — ERC 90 Sagaie — AMX 10 RC — VBC-90 — Panhard AML

Armoured personnel carriers	VXB — VAB — Panhard VCR — VBL — AMX-10P — VBCI

Artillery	LRM — AMX 30 AuF1 — CAESAR

Experimental vehicles	AMX-40

Armoured fighting vehicles of France

v d e Modern wheeled infantry fighting vehicles and personnel carriers

4 × 4	ACMAT Agrale Marruá AMZ Dzik AMZ Tur AMZ Żubr Aravis ATF Dingo Austin Champ AXE Badger ILAV BPM-97 BOV Buffel Bushmaster Casspir Cheetah MMPV Cobra Commando Chaimite Condor Corvo Cougar H Duro III Dozor-B Didgori Eagle Enok F2 Fahd FNSS Pars Fennek FTTS FMC XR311 G-Class Golan Grizzly Humvee Honker Iveco LMV Kaya Komatsu LAV Land Rover Wolf LIV (SO) Serval LOV-1 M1117 Guardian Mamba Marine MPV Maverick Marksman M-ATV MaxxPro Millenworks LUV Mungo ESK MWMIK MXT-MV MX-1 Kalakian MX-8 Barako NIMR Ocelot OKA Perentie P4 Pinzgauer PVP Piranha Puma Rakhsh Reva RG-12 RG-31 Nyala RG-32 Scout RG Outrider RG-33 RG-34 Iguana RG-35 S600 Sand Cat Santana Anibal Saxon Simba Sherpa 2 Storm T-98 Kombat Type 90 Tiuna Tempest MPV Type 6614 GAZ-2975 Tigr Unibuffel UR-416 URO VAMTAC VAB VBL VPK-3927 Volk VXB Vodnik Wolf

6 × 6	ACMAT Al-Faris 8-400 Alvis Saracen Arma Patria AMV AMX 10 RC Armoured Multirole Carrier AVGP Grizzly BAE Caiman Buffalo H Ceradyne Bull Cougar HE Duro III EE-9 Cascavel EE-11 Urutu ERC 90 Sagaie F2 FNSS Pars Fuchs Grizzly HPV Mastiff PPV Mbombe MPV-I MTVR NIMR Nurol Ejder Pandur 6x6 Patria Pasi Perentie Pindad Panser Pegaso BMR Pegaso VEC-M1 Pinzgauer Piranha Puma Ratel RG-33 RG-35 RN-94 Shoet TATRAPAN WZ551 Type 92 WZ523 Type 93 VBTP-MR VAB LKOV Valuk Rheinmetall YAK

8 × 8	Al-Fahd Arma Patria AMV ASLAV AV-81 Terrex Bison Boxer MRAV BTR-3 BTR-4 BTR-80 BTR-90 BTR-94 Centauro VBC CM-32 Coyote FNSS Pars KTO Irbis KTO Rosomak KTO Ryś Lazar BVT LAV-25 LAV III SEP Luchs LVS NZLAV Pandur II 8x8 Piranha RG41 Rooikat Saur 1 Stryker OT-64 SKOT Tatra T815 Type 92 Type 96 VBCI VBTP-MR

10 × 10	LVSR Piranha