That means roughly that they are still not exactly strong enough to go head-on with heavy class players, but otherwise provide well adequate weapon for big game hunt. Today, it has been possible to achieve pretty nice results with 105mm calibre guns too, and many consider Centauro’s gun as one of the finest if not best in it’s class, with performance that is somewhat (still not directly) comparable with 120mm gun capabilities (ammunition is of course much of an issue, and elder 120mm of 125mm ammo is easily outperformed by this kind of weapon). Centauro is about the only one of it’s class with much emphasis being put into protection, and it’s possibly quite well all-round immune to IFV calibre gun fire and somewhat resistant to hand held at-fire. Armour in AMX like in many other contemporary designs is thick enough to keep armour piercing heavy mg fire away, but nothing more. It’s not even in level with well protected IFV’s. AMX10 is built form the start to be very thinly armoured, and is no way near to belong in the same class with any real tank.

Modern tank destroyer amx-10rc