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Originally Posted by RN7
Deliveries of AMX-VCI started in 1994 when 33 were registered as sold to Mexico. This was followed by 18 in 1995 and 22 in 1996. After that Belgium sold no more to Mexico, and other AMX-VCI's were later obtained from France.
However this in real life not the Twilight War. The AMX-VCI constituted one third of the Belgian Army's stock of tracked armoured personnel carriers. The rest were M113's, Spartans and AIFV-B's, and all the French Army's stocks of tracked armoured personnel carriers were AMX-10P's or AMX-VCI's. In the Twilight War timeline the Cold War is at 1980's levels and the Soviets are belligerent to the West. Belgian and French companies might be willing to sell new armoured vehicles to Mexico, but I cannot see Belgium of France transferring any armoured vehicles from their own armies to Mexico.
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RN - question - where did you get your data - this is what I have using
http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade...e_register.php as the basis for the AMX-VCI deliveries
But I dont have access to a Jane's
Supplier/ No. Weapon Weapon Year of No.
recipient (R) ordered designation description of order delivery delivered Comments
Belgium
R: Mexico (401) AMX-VCI APC (1994) 1994-1996 401 Second-hand; incl some or most modernized before delivery; incl VTT/PM mortar carrier and ARV version; Mexican designation DNC-1
(95) BDX APC (1994) 1994-1995 (95) Second-hand; Mexican designation DNC-2
That would support that they all came from Belgium and not a mix of Belgium and France - per that site there was no transfers to Mexico from France of any equipment from 1993 to 1997 - that last such transfer was in 1993
4 AS-355/AS-555 Fennec Light helicopter (1992) 1992-1993 (4) AS-555AF armed
another source I have shows 40 AMX-VCI (i.e. as the DNC-1) in service in the Mexican Army in 1996 which shows at least that many would have been delivered and gone thru the conversion process both at SABIEX and at SEDENA
Would definitely love to see where you got the numbers above - would be very helpful indeed for further research
thank you very much