VAB AZURE (Action en Zone URbaine) - Urban warfare vehicle
Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé (Armoured Vanguard Vehicle)
Just before the Bastille Day military parade
Avenue de Wagram
Quartier du Faubourg-du-Roule, 8th arrondissement
Paris, July 2012
“VAB AZURE (Action en Zone URbaine) - Urban warfare vehicle equipped with a dozer blade and with panoramic periscopes to observe and monitor.” (
Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé, Wikipedia)
Whew! For a moment there, I thought the French were rising up in revolt again.
ReplyDeleteThey are.
ReplyDeleteI hope I never have to see it in action.
ReplyDeleteThat actually looks like it would be a pretty useful vehicle to plow snow with in some of our NoVA neighborhoods. You could push the snow with the blade and be protected from all the neighborhood kids trying to stop you by throwing snowballs.
ReplyDeleteThe canon, though, is way over the top. :-)