AMX-30EBG

The AMX-30EBG (Engin Blindé du Génie) is an armored engineer vehicle based on the AMX-30 main battle tank chassis. It is designed for battlefield engineering tasks such as obstacle breaching, mine clearing, and earthmoving, typically equipped with a dozer blade and an excavator arm.

Developed in the late 1970s to replace the obsolete AMX-13 VCG, the EBG was created to provide French armored divisions with a heavy engineering vehicle capable of keeping pace with modern main battle tanks. The vehicle officially entered service with the French Army in 1989, with dozens of units delivered to active engineer regiments. It saw its first major combat deployment during the 1991 Gulf War under Operation Daguet and was later utilized in peacekeeping missions throughout the Balkans. Although modernized in the 2010s under the EBG VAL program to extend its operational life, it is gradually being phased out in favor of next-generation combat engineering platforms.