AuF1
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Description
The Canon de 155 Automoteur Modèle F1 is a rank French tank destroyer with a battle rating of (AB), (RB), and (SB). It was introduced in Update "La Royale".
General info
Survivability and armour
The armour of the AMX-30 AuF1 is very thin and offers little protection against any kind of anti-tank weapon. It can only withstand small arms fire such as 7.62 mm machine guns and shrapnel. The armour is only 20 mm thick on the turret, which means that engaging any tank with a heavy machine gun is a dangerous enterprise, as it is extremely easy for them to kill your gunner and other crew using their machine gun. The engine in the rear of the hull can sometimes block some shots, but it is not a reliable defence.
However, due to the AuF1's weak armour, surviving solid shot shells such as AP, APCR and APDS is possible, but be careful - even if these shells don't knock out your gunner, they have a high chance of damaging the vertical aiming drive, rendering the tank unable to fire back. Therefore try not to get hit in the first place, and use the tank's excellent mobility to disengage.
Armour type:
| Armour | Front (Slope angle) | Sides | Rear | Roof |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hull | 30+8 mm (68°-76°) Upper 30 mm (45°) Lower |
20+4-20 mm Top 30 mm Bottom |
30 mm | 10 - 15 mm |
| Turret | 20 mm (35°) Turret front 20-30 mm Gun mantlet |
20 mm | 20 mm | 20 mm (79°-90°) |
| Cupola | 20 mm | 20 mm | 20 mm | 20 mm |
Notes:
Mobility
The AuF1 is one of the fastest tanks at its battle rating, thanks to it's AMX-30 chassis. It possesses an excellent reverse gearbox that quickly allows you to disengage from a dangerous situation, and armed with your smoke grenades it is quite easy to run away in a pinch. However, you are still slower than light tanks, and you accelerate slower than a Leopard or STB-1, meaning rushing capture points at the start of the map is inadvisable.
| Game Mode | Max Speed (km/h) | Weight (tons) | Engine power (horsepower) | Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forward | Reverse | Stock | Upgraded | Stock | Upgraded | ||
| Arcade | Expression error: Unexpected * operator. | 1,022 | Expression error: Unexpected round operator. | __.__ | |||
| Realistic | 637 | Expression error: Unexpected round operator. | __.__ | ||||
Modifications and economy
Armaments
Main armament
The AMX-30 AuF1 is equipped with the 155 mm CN 155 AUF1 howitzer, a powerful gun with a high rate of fire and a long range, at the cost of options. In game, the gun can fire three types of rounds, including, including OE 155 56, a standard high explosive shell, M107 (PF), a high-explosive proxy fuse, and smoke. The gun is mounted on a fully traversable turret with an autoloader, which allows the AMX-30 AuF1 to fire 8 rounds per minute.
The performance of the howitzer is great , with the second fastest reload of a cannon of its caliber while possessing a decent muzzle velocity, faster than both the Type 75 and the 2S3M. However, the main HE shell is slower than both the G6 Rhino and Bandkanon 1C, and also contains less explosive filler. This is still enough to annihilate any lightly armoured ground vehicle with a direct hit anywhere and even the most protected vehicles can still be destroyed in one shot if aimed properly.
Additionally, the AuF1 also has the M107 (PF) shell. This is a proximity-fused high-explosive shell which detonates automatically when it gets close to a tank or plane, which allows it to explode above the roof of an enemy vehicle, destroying it in a similar fashion to a top attack missile. However, it will detonate on any features of the map, be that a rock, a mound of dirt, or even the ground. This, combined with its 3m trigger radius makes it not very effective to shoot down vehicles hiding just behind ridge lines or obstacles, but quite effective against planes. The proximity fuse arms past 300 m, against closer targets the fuse doesn't work and the shell will perform just like a standard HE shell, but with more explosives and a lower velocity. In these close range engagements, it might be preferable to use the HEVT shells to ensure destruction.
| 155 mm GCT F1 | Turret rotation speed (°/s) | Reloading rate (seconds) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mode | Capacity | Vertical | Horizontal | Stabilizer | Stock | Upgraded | Full | Expert | Aced | Autoloader |
| Arcade | 42 | -4°/+66° | ±180° | - | 8.8 | 12.2 | 14.8 | 16.4 | 17.4 | 7.50 |
| Realistic | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.5 | 9.4 | 10.0 | |||||
Ammunition
| Penetration statistics | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | |||||
| 10 m | 100 m | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 2,000 m | ||
| OE 155 56 | HE | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| M107 (PF) | HE-VT | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 |
| Shell details | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (m) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (kg) |
Ricochet | |||||
| 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
| OE 155 56 | HE | 810 | 43.75 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 6.8 | 79° | 80° | 81° | |||
| Proximity-fused shell details | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (m) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Arming distance (m) |
Trigger radius (m) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (kg) |
Ricochet | |||
| 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
| M107 (PF) | HE-VT | 580 | 43.1 | 0 | 0 | 300 | 3 | 9.14 | 79° | 80° | 81° | |
| Smoke shell characteristics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammunition | Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Screen radius (m) |
Screen deploy time (s) |
Screen hold time (s) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g) |
| M110 | 563 | 40.8 | 25 | 5 | 30 | 50 |
Ammo racks
| Full ammo |
1st rack empty |
2nd rack empty |
3rd rack empty |
4th rack empty |
5th rack empty |
6th rack empty |
Visual discrepancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ (+__) | __ |
Machine guns
| 12.7 mm M2HB | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount | Capacity (Belt) | Fire rate | Vertical | Horizontal |
| Pintle | 800 (200) | 575 | -10°/+45° | ±41° |
Usage in battles
Pros and cons
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See also
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External links
| France tank destroyers | |
|---|---|
| Lorraine 40t derivatives | CA Lorraine · Lorraine 155 Mle.50 |
| ATGM | MEPHISTO · AMX-10M |
| Other | AMR.35 ZT3 · Lorraine 37L · SAu 40 · ARL-44 · ELC bis · AMX-50 Foch · AuF1 |
| USA | ▄M10 GMC · ▄M36B2 |
