Black Dog F35176 French modern tank crew N°1

Contemporary French Armed Forces (fr. Forces armees francaises) are made up of the army, the navy, the air force, the French National Gendarmerie and the National Guard. In terms of numbers, the most important component is the ground army (French Armee de Terre), whose armored forces have changed significantly since the end of World War II to the present day. Shortly after the end of World War II, the French armored forces, on the one hand, focused on relatively light equipment with high mobility, but with high firepower, an excellent example of which is the AMX-13 tank, and on the other, heavy vehicles from the USA - primarily M47 Patton vehicles. With time, however, France developed its own AMX-30 MBT and its subsequent modernization of the AMX30B2, which until the 1990s were the basic armament of French armored units and are still in active service. On the other hand, at the beginning of the 1990s, the French army introduced a 3rd generation tank called the Leclerc with a crew of 3 to the line. Armee de Terre currently has 254 Leclerc cars in the line.