EBRC Jaguar

France's networked 6×6 cavalry vehicle — the Engin Blindé de Reconnaissance et de Combat Jaguar — is the armoured reconnaissance and fire-support backbone of the French Army's Scorpion modernization. It replaces three older types at once (the AMX-10RC, the ERC-90 Sagaie and the VAB Mephisto anti-tank carrier) with a single digital platform mounting a 40mm cased-telescoped cannon and Akeron anti-tank missiles. It is, in effect, the missile-armed, network-enabled successor to the AMX-10RC France sent to Ukraine — built for a battlefield where seeing and sharing first matters as much as shooting.

Overview

The EBRC Jaguar is a six-wheeled armoured fighting vehicle developed by KNDS France (Nexter), Arquus and Thales as a core element of the French Army's Scorpion program — the service-wide effort to digitize and network its medium forces. The Jaguar's job is armoured reconnaissance and direct fire support: scouting, screening, anti-armour and fire missions, all tied into the Scorpion battlefield-information system (SICS) so vehicles share a common picture and hand off targets. Its armament pairs a 40mm CTA International cased-telescoped cannon with a coaxial machine gun, a roof remote weapon station, and a twin launcher for MMP (Akeron MP) anti-tank guided missiles. At around 25 tonnes it is heavier and far more capable than the AMX-10RC it replaces — a genuinely modern cavalry vehicle rather than a Cold War gun-on-wheels.

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