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.

Development

The Jaguar was developed under EBMR Scorpion (Engin Blindé Multi-Rôles), the French Army's program to replace its ageing medium-armour fleet with a networked family of vehicles (the Griffon multi-role armoured vehicle, the Serval light vehicle, and the Jaguar). The temporary-grouping prime is KNDS France (Nexter) with Arquus and Thales, per Wikipedia and Army Recognition. First vehicles were delivered from 2019, the type was officially presented in 2022 and entered operational French service that year, and France plans on the order of 300 Jaguars. Belgium is acquiring the Jaguar (alongside the Griffon) under the bilateral CaMo "Capacité Motorisée" partnership, which aligns Belgian motorized forces with the French Scorpion standard — making the Jaguar a Franco-Belgian rather than purely French program. It directly succeeds the AMX-10RC, the ERC-90 Sagaie and the VAB Mephisto.

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