A bolt-on/bolt-off armor system allows the French Army to increase or decrease the Jaguar’s armor, depending on the situation: Jaguar might shed most of its armor for travel or operation in low armor threat areas such as Africa, while donning additional armor going up against Russian tank forces. The Jaguar’s armor protects crews from 14.5-millimeter heavy machine guns, 155-millimeter artillery shrapnel at ranges up to 30 yards, and mine or IED explosions involving up to 20 pounds of TNT. Finally, a remote-controlled 7.62-millimeter machine gun is controlled by the vehicle commander.

It also stores a second pair of MMPs as reloads. Jaguar is also fitted with a missile launcher holding two long-range MMP anti-tank missiles that hides within the turret. The AMX-10RC’s 105-millimeter F2 rifled main gun is roughly as powerful as are the smoothbore 115-millimeter and rifled 100-millimeter main guns on Russia’s older T-62 and T-55 tanks. The 40-millimeter gun is useful against light armored vehicles and has an effective range of 1,500 meters. Cased telescoped ammo, in which the projectile is fully enclosed in a shell casing, is only now coming into common use with modern armies and results in a more compact projectile.

Twitter user vehicle is heavily armed, with a 40-millimeter gun firing cased telescoped ammunition.

Modern tank destroyer amx-10rc