ERC-90 Sagaie

The Engin of Recognition at Canon of 90 mm Sagaie (ERC 90) is a light French tank of 6 driving wheels. Conceived by Panhard, on its equities, while benefitting from the work completed for a contest launched, in 1970, by the French Army for the design with a vehicle of before armoured tank, but gained by Renault.

The first ERC leaves in 1977. Orders placed by the Argentine, the France, the Iraq, the Coast-D' Ivory, the Niger, and the Mexico. The first come from Iraq which wants to adapt its turrets UTM-800 to it. Panhard then chooses to mount there a more modern turret equipped with a gun of 90 mm F4. This vehicle is one 6 * 6 amphibians of which the two intermediate gears can be raised. It is transportable by air by Transall C 160 and Hercules C 130. It can be used in atmosphere contaminated thanks to a system of pressurization and filtration of the air (NBC).

Technical information

Fuel: 280 L. of gasoline
Autonomy: 730 km or 15 operating hours
Consumption on road: 24 l/100 km
Consommation in varied ground: 17 l/h
Mean velocity on road: 60 km/h
Maximum speed on road: 90 km/h
watery Speed: : 7.2 km/h

Equipment

Principal armament (GIAT)

Rifled bore of 90 mm at initial high-speed.

semi-automatic Operation.

manual Food.

Pointings in direction handbook electrically assisted 360° into 20 dryness.,

in site: handbook of - 8° with + 15° in 15 dryness. Precision H + L: : 1.7 thousandth.

Secondary armament

1 coaxial machine-gun AA 7,62 NF1.

Put at fire: electric or manual for the gunner. Direct action on the relaxation for the chief of machine.

Ammunition: : 1000 cartridges of: 7.62 emmaillonnées out of boxes standards of 200 units, turret.

1 machine-gun AA: 7.62 in superstructure
4 pots launches smoke-producing (DREB) on the turret.

4D.R.E.B stored in the back pocket.

Ammunition

20 ammunition of 90 mm out of turret (OFL - OCC - OE - OPH)
: 2000 cartridges of: 7.62 mm
4 DREB

Transmissions

Version command (chief of group):

1 TR VP 213 - 1 TR VP 13 - Intercom or PR4G
Version row: 1 TR VP 13 - Intercom

Optics

1 OB vision and shooting of night
1 OB piloting of night

French units equipped with this vehicle

the 1 {{er}} regiment of hussards parachutists (1st RHP) pertaining to the 11th brigade parachutist.
the 4th regiment of hunters pertaining to the 27e brigade of infantry of mountain

The ERC90 Sagaie also equips:

the Squadron of recognition of the 13th half-brigade of Foreign legion to Djibouti,
the armor-plated Squadron of the 23e Battalion of Marines to the Senegal,
the armor-plated Squadron of the 43e battalion of marines in Ivory Coast,
the Squadron armor-plated of the French Elements to the Chad
the mixed armor-plated squadron of the Regiment of marines of the Pacific/New Caledonia

External bonds

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