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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9PqDslXjT0

Ukrainian experiences with Centauro and AMX-10 RC


Comparison of apples with oranges :

- AMX 10 RC : tech from the 1970s for a vehicle whose main dedication was reconnaissance in force, with a 105 mm gun powerful enough to disengage in case of confrontation with a soviet tank of the time (T62, T72...). Rather useful now as a sort of assault gun.

- Centauro : a heavy recon vehicle from 1980s tech that can perform a tank destroyer function with a 120 mm gun with present russian tanks.
 
and in the US Mirriam Webster dictionary the meaning is effectively the same

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Most other English language definitions are a mix of the French and US definitions. I have never seen a version that says wheeled vehicle but I am fairly sure some "modern" definition will say so.
 
Is a wheeled vehicle a tank? The video refers to "wheeled-tanks". That sounds awkward.
How about "Wanks"?
Traditionally, these were called "Arnored Cars", like Germany's SdKfz.234 and America's M8 Greyhound.

In current terms, I beleive it falls under the Armed Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) label.
 
The exact location and the scale of damage were not yet disclosed.
But there was one interesting "anecdotal evidence" from Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov, who is a prominent EW expert. According to him, one warhead penetrated two layers of concrete and burnt out the cellar with the book archive that contained a full collection of Vladimir Lenin's printed editions. It sounds like a joke, but stranger things happened in a war.
 

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