Amd Laffly 80 – Wikipedia

AMD Laffly 80
after-content-x4 AMD Laffly 80 in Tunis in 1943.
Description
Type	autoblindo
Crew	4 (Pilot forward, retro pilot, leader, gunner)
Designer	Ségur & Lorfeuvre
Manufacturer	Ségur & Lorfeuvre Laffly
Date setting	1934
Date entry into service	1935
Date withdrawal from the service	1955
Main user	Land Force
Specimens	28
Developed by	White Mle 1917
Dimensions and weight
Perspective tables
Length	5,50 m
Length	2,20 m
Height	2,50 m
Peso	7,5 t
Fuel capacity	120 l
Propulsion and technique
Motor	Laffly, petrol, 4 cylinders
Power	80 CV
Traction	4 × 2
Suspension	crossbow
Performance
Speed ​​on the road	80 km/h
Autonomy	4300 km
Armament and armor
Primary armament	1 × heavy machine gun 13.2 mm Hotchkiss Mle 1930
Secondary armament	2 × IST NATHREN 7.5 MM X 1931
Armor	8-20 mm
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L’ Laffly 80 Discovery Authorizer O Laffly-Vincennes It was a French car developed between the two world wars.

At the end of the 1920s, almost the entire Autoblindo Park of the Ermée de Terre and most of the Carri Park dated back to the First World War. During the Great War, France had received the US Autobblindo White Model 1917. At the end of the 1920s the frames had come to an end, but the hulls were still in almost perfect conditions. Similarly to what has been done in 1931 with the white MLE 1918 hulls to create the AMD Laffly 50, in 1934 it was therefore decided to reassemble the White armored hulls on the new, modern 4 × 2 frame of the LC2 self -carro of the Laffly, already in service with the ‘Armée ^[first] . The reconstructions began in 1934 and the vehicles entered service the following year, but it was clear that the vehicle was already obsolete before leaving the factory. The conversion was interrupted after 28 vehicles products and the resources were diverted to the production of the modern Panhard 178 ^[2] .

The name was assigned to the vehicle AMD Laffly 80 and was also known as AMD White-Vincennes ; In the nomenclature of the French army, the diction Automot and discovery or AMD indicated the self -strokes rotated by reconnaissance for the cavalry. The autobindo obsolete were assigned to 6 ^{It is} and 8 ^{It is} Régiment de cheirassiers; In 1937 the two departments received the new Panhard 178 and 27 Laffly 80 Still operational were sent to French North Africa, where there was a lower level of threat in the event of war. Here were assigned to the 1er régiment étrangger de cavalerie and at 4 ^{It is} Régiment de Chasseurs d’Afrique. After the armistice of 1940, the vehicles passed to 8 ^{It is} African hunter regiment; Tornarono al 4 ^{It is} Régiment on the occasion of the parade of May 1943, celebrating the victory and the end of the war in the desert ^[first] .

The rear -wheel drive 4 × 2 frame was characterized by an extremely long step. The suspensions were in Balestre. The off -road performance, in the conditions of the European theater, were not exciting, but the vehicle could exceed a slope of 40 ° and had a maximum speed of 80 km/h on the desert slopes of North Africa ^[first] .

The hull was made up of laminated steel plates 8 mm thick, attached and riveted to the central supporting structure. The driving compartment was occupied by the pilot, while his assistant in case of need occupied the rear guide place; The double guide was in fact a characteristic of many blinds from exploration of the time. The combat compartment occupied all the poppiece part of the vehicle. Both driving stations had armored slits and driving doors ^[first] . The engine was a new 80 HP Laffly four -cylinder, with a forward 4 -speed manual transmission and 4 retro. The electrical system included was 6 volt ^[2] .

The circular turret in riveted plates, asymmetrical in shape, was equipped with a small upper door; She was armed with a heavy machine gun of 13.2 mm Hotchkiss Mle 1930 and a Mac coaxial machine gun 1931; A second machine gun of the same type was installed “on the run”, on the back of the turret. The crew accessed the vehicle through two lateral doors ^[first] .

• François Vauvillier, All the armored vehicles of the French army – 1914-1940 , “History of war, armored & material”, GBM 100, April, May, June 2012, ISSN 1956-2497, p. 68, nº56.
• Leland Ness (2002) Jane’s World War II Tanks and Fighting Vehicles: The Complete Guide , Harper Collins, London and New York, ISBN 0-00-711228-9
• Pierre Touzin, French armored vehicles, 1900-1944 , EPA, 1979
• Pierre Touzin, French armored vehicles 1920-1945, volume 1 , Will be, 1976