The ACMAT Bastion is a modern French armoured personnel carrier, manufactured by ACMAT.
The Bastion was available to customers in North America and Oceania via Mack Defense.[7][8] As of 2021, AM General is making the Bastion.[3]
Its chassis is based on the ACMAT VLRA.[4] In 2018, Arquus, owner of ACMAT, signed a contract with AM General to propose the Bastion as an armored ambulance for the U.S. Army.[6]
The Bastion PATSAS (PATrouille SAS) is a variant designed for special forces.[6] It is lighter (10 tonnes) and carries 5 equipped soldiers. It is armed with a 12.7mm heavy machine gun and can carry 3 additional medium machine guns.[9]
The Fortress, formerly Bastion HM (High Mobility), is an up-armored Bastion, with a more powerful motor (340 hp) and an independent suspension to improve its mobility.[10] It exists in two versions, APC and armored logistic vehicle.[11]
The Chadian détachement d'action rapide (rapid action detachment) used the Bastion PATSAS during the 2013 intervention in Mali.[12] The Chadian Army also fielded Bastions during the 2015 intervention against Boko Haram in Far North Cameroon and Nigeria.[13]
The Cameroonian Bastion APCs, nicknamed as Cyclones, have been deployed in Northern Cameroon with the Battalion d'intervention rapide elite force.[1]
Burkina Faso deployed its Bastions in peacekeeping operations in Northern Mali, under the MINUSMA banner.[14] They have also been used in internal security missions, Bastion PATSAS being for instance fielded by the regiment de sécurité présidentielle before its disbandment in 2015.[15] One Bastion was destroyed by Ansar ul Islam in the 2016 Nassoumbou attack.[16]
In Mali, the 134th Escadron de Reconnaissance (Recce Squadron) was trained to operate the Bastion APC by the EUTM Mali.[17]
In 2015, the United States Department of Defense bought 62 Bastion APC variants commercialised by Mack Trucks to supply various African forces, some of them, such as Uganda, being involved in AMISOM.[6]
Some of the Saudi Arabian Bastion PATSAS were reportedly used in the intervention in Yemen.[18]
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