Panhard SPHINX

The Panhard SPHINX, short for Secret Project for High Intensity and New Conflicts, was a French armoured military vehicle developed by Panhard General Defense as a private project from 2009 and presented in 2011 within the French EBRC reconnaissance and combat vehicle programme. It was meant to replace the ERC-90 Sagaie, which Panhard also built. The 6x6 vehicle measured about 5.5 by 3.0 metres, weighed 17 tonnes, carried a crew of three and had a 600 horsepower engine, with a road speed that could reach 110 km/h. Its chassis could take an automatic cannon, an anti-tank missile launcher or a mortar, with ballistic protection up to STANAG level 4; a Lockheed Martin turret was fitted with a 40 mm cannon, a coaxial machine gun and four anti-tank missiles. The SPHINX never went beyond the prototype stage.