Notes: This is the hull of the AMX-13 light tank topped with a large turret housing an antiaircraft gun system. They are generally used in a mix with SP antiaircraft missile systems to provide a layered mix of weapons. They are fairly light vehicles with decent armor (especially against civilians and under-equipped partisans) and good maneuverability. There is a driver’s hatch on the front deck, and a commander’s hatch on the turret deck; the gunner uses the commander’s hatch. The hull can use the same appliqué armor as the standard AMX-13 light tank.

Twilight 2000 Notes: In the Twilight War, the AMX-13 DCAs were used to grisly effect in the Middle East and the Dead Zone against personnel in the open and in soft skinned vehicles, and used to terrorize and kill refugees in the Dead Zone along the Franco-German border, as well as against partisans in Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

Notes: This is the same Roland SAM turret as on the Roland SPAA featured in the NATO Combat Vehicle Handbook, but mounted on a modified AMX-30 tank chassis. It is used by France, Iraq, Qatar, and Spain. Missile launchers are automatically reloaded when empty. The Roland system has both night vision and self-contained radar for the missiles, and may be fired by optical tracking in a heavily jammed environment.

Notes: This is a self-propelled SAM launcher built by France. The system consists of Crotale SAMs mounted on a modified AMX-30 main battle tank chassis. The system has radar that can track 18 targets at once and engage two of them at a time with missiles. The vehicle is normally followed by a number of heavy trucks equipped with extra missiles and a crane for reloading the launcher.

The second part of Shahine is a target acquisition unit. This is a radar vehicle mounted on a modified AMX-30 chassis. The radar vehicle can track up to 40 targets at once at a range of 18.5 km. It feeds data to the Shahine firing unit through a radio link.

Twilight 2000 Notes: The French did not use this system before the Twilight War, but was instead used only by Saudi Arabia; shipments were diverted when the Foreign Legion deployed to the Middle East, for use by those forces.