Berliet GBU 15

The Berliet GBU 15 was a rigid military truck that Berliet built for the French army, which used it from 1959 to 1984 before the Renault TRM 10000 replaced it. The design began in the 1950s at Rochet-Schneider as a truck called the T-6, and when Rochet-Schneider became a Berliet subsidiary in 1959 the parent company took the project over under the name GBU. It was powered by a six cylinder multi fuel engine of 214 horsepower driving through a five speed gearbox with short and long ranges, and two tanks carried 400 litres of diesel for a range of about 800 km. Its empty weight in running order was 15,200 kg and its load capacity 6,000 kg, and the long GBU 15 could ford a metre of water with no snorkel or preparation. Besides France it served in Belgium, the People\u0027s Republic of China and the United Arab Emirates.