AMD.35: Pan-Pan

The Panhard AMD.35 armored car is one of the best French combat vehicles of the early 20th century. It was made during the Interwar period, when militaries of many nations were rethinking their concepts of cavalry units. The era of classic horse cavalry was obviously over: it was time for motorized units. And so some armies tried to adapt the old cavalry strategies and units to new realities, beginning their motorization. France was one such nation. It was the cavalry units for whom Panhard made its AMD.35, a car with decent armor, separate driving seats for forward and reverse movement, and a 25-mm autocannon in a fully rotating turret.