AML-60

The Panhard AML-60 is a French armoured car designed for reconnaissance and internal security missions. It is typically armed with a 60mm breech-loading mortar and two 7.62mm machine guns.

Developed in the late 1950s by Panhard, the vehicle was designed to meet a French Army requirement for a lightweight, highly mobile counter-insurgency platform to replace aging British Ferret scout cars. It officially entered service in 1961 and quickly became a cornerstone of French rapid deployment forces. The vehicle subsequently saw extensive combat during the Algerian War, the Portuguese Colonial War, and numerous regional conflicts across Africa and the Middle East. Although phased out of front-line French service by the late 20th century, the AML-60 remains active in several developing nations and is remembered as one of the most commercially successful light armored designs of the Cold War.