The Armoured Multirole Carrier (AMC) is an armoured personnel carrier

Armoured personnel carrier

An armoured personnel carrier is an armoured fighting vehicle designed to transport infantry to the battlefield.APCs are usually armed with only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortars...

 made by Renault Trucks Défense, part of Renault Trucks

Renault Trucks

Renault Trucks is a French truck manufacturer with its corporate headquarters at Saint-Priest near Lyon. Originally part of Renault, it has been owned by Volvo Group since 2001....

. It was put on display for the first time at Eurosatory 2008. It is one of the contenders for the replacement of the VAB

Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé

The Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé or VAB is an armoured personnel carrier and support vehicle designed by the Euro Mobilité Division of GIAT Industries of France. It entered service in 1976; around 5,000 were produced.- Design :The VAB was designed as a wheeled troop transporter, complementing the...

, also made by Renault, around 2020.

The AMC is a high-mobility medium armoured vehicle. A wide range of different models is planned.

Versions

• Armoured transport
• Infantry combat vehicle
• Troop transport
• Mobile command centre (AMC-PC)
• Ambulance (AMC-SAN)
• HOT
  Euromissile HOT
  The HOT is a second-generation long-range anti-tank missile system developed originally as an effort to meet a joint German-French Army requirement, by the then German firm Bolkow and the French firm Nord, to replace the older SS.11 wire guided...
  
  launcher (AMC-HOT)
• Anti-air missile launcher
• Mortar truck
• Artillery observation
• NBC reconnaissance
• Decontamination centre
• Minesweeper
• 20mm turret AMC

Sources and references

• AMC on Renault Trucks Défense