The Centauro Wheeled Tank Destroyer of the Italian and Spanish Armies, the Chinese anti-tank gun PTL-02 and the French AMX 10 RC heavy armored car are also good examples.

The army at that time operated AMX-13 light tanks, AML H60 and H90 armored cars, French 105mm howitzers, and mortars of 81mm and 120mm caliber.

The Flemish footmen at the Battle of the Golden Spurs met and overcame French knights in 1302, and the Scots held their own against heavily armored English invaders.

They created many examples of lightly armored self-propelled anti-tank guns using captured French equipment ( example Marder I ), their own obsolete light tank chassis ( Marder II ), or ex-Czech chassis ( Marder III ).

His French infantry with armored units went through Hanoi, fighting small battles against isolated Việt Minh groups.

Orange is also home to the French Foreign Legion's armored 1er REC or First Foreign Cavalry Regiment.

On September 26, 1854 Ericsson presented Napoleon III of France with drawings of iron-clad armored battle ships with a dome-shaped gun tower, and even though the French emperor praised this invention, he did nothing to bring it to practical application.

In May 1945, by the end of the war in Europe, the Free French forces comprised 1, 300, 000 personnel, and included seven infantry divisions and three armored divisions fighting in Germany making it the fourth largest allied army in Europe behind the Soviet Union, the U. S. and Britain.

The first use of an armored spearhead was during the 1940 Battle of France, the German invasion of the Low Countries, against the British and French armies.

The French and British armies were split on either side of the German forces, and at one point attempted to cut the line with an armored attack on either side.

On 22 September, UNPROFOR again requested NATO air support in the Sarajevo area after Serb forces attacked a French armored personnel carrier.

On 21 March 1946, Souphanouvong and his largely Vietnamese force fought the French Union troops at Savannakhet, to no avail ; the attackers mustered paratroopers, artillery, armored cars, and Spitfire fighter-bombers.

Experiments had been tried with armor during the Crimean War, just prior to the American Civil War, and the British and French navies had each built armored ships and were planning to build others.

* Panhard M3 PTT, a French armored personnel carrier

At the Battle of Marignano the opposing armies engaged in a protracted and bloody struggle ; which the French won largely because of the valour of Bayard, King Francis, and the French gendarmes ( armored lancers ).

While the lion ′ s share of the blame fell on Fredendall, Kenneth Anderson — as overall commander of British, French, and American forces — bore at least partial responsibility for the failure to concentrate Allied armored units and integrate forces, which Generals Harmon, Ward, and Alexander noted had disintegrated into a piecemeal collection of disjointed units and commands.

Operation Husky involved infantry, air force and armored cavalry forces from the Army of Africa including 4th Moroccan Tabor ( 66th, 67th & 68th Goums landed on July 13 at Licata ) from U. S. 7th Army, No. II / 5 " LaFayette " French Squadron with Curtiss P-40s and No. II / 7 " Nice " French Squadron with Spitfires both from No. 242 Group RAF ), II / 33 Groupe " Savoie " with P-38 Lightning from the Northwest African Photographic Reconnaissance Wing and 131st RCC with Renault R35 tanks.

The most significant losses sustained by the French Navy during the war were three pre-dreadnought battleships, one semi-dreadnought, four armored cruisers, one protected cruiser, twelve destroyers, and fourteen submarines.

Built around a Royal Air Force ground reconnaissance squadron equipped with armored cars, this unit contained a number of American, British, French, and Italian technical specialists of various kinds who would enter Rome on the heels of the advancing Allied forces.

The tanks are equipped with the French Thales built Catherine-FC thermal sights and utilizes Russian Kontakt-5 K-5 explosive reactive armored plates.

French infantry forces under the command of Jean-Étienne Valluy invaded the city and fought house to house with support from armored units and jet fighters.

* Véhicule de l ' Avant Blindé, a French wheeled armored personnel carrier

* A. M. ( automobile ), a 1906 French car

* 1989 – Jules Bianchi, French race car driver

* 1986 – Romain Grosjean, French race car driver

* 1979 – Yannick Schroeder, French race car driver

* 2012 – Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver ( b. 1963 )

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

* 1969 – Jean-Christophe Boullion, French race car driver

In the early 1920s Armstrong drove off with Sarnoff's secretary, Marion MacInnes, in a French sports car.

* 1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver

* 1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

* 1921 – Jean Behra, French race car driver ( d. 1959 )

* 1982 – Loïc Duval, French race car driver

* 1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver

* 1968 – Jo Schlesser, French race car driver ( b. 1928 )

* 1954 – Philippe Alliot, French race car driver

* 1930 – Mike Sparken, French race car driver ( d. 2012 )

* 1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver

* 1986 – Nelson Philippe, French race car driver

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham took his first Formula One world championship win since 1960 and became the first man to win such a race in a car of his own construction.

* 1970 – Soheil Ayari, French race car driver

* 2001 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver ( b. 1943 )

* 1982 – Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver

* 1943 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver ( d. 2001 )