The Dutch AMX-PRI details ?

[KRK4m]

The Dutch were the largest (second only to France) export user of the AMX-VTT APC. Almost 600 of them were used in the Netherlands, usually called AMX-PRI.

Are any indexes available to match their road registration (licence) plates with the 6-character tactical numbers seen on the front apron (3 left+3 right) and the rear hull doors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AMX_Pantserrups_Infanterie,_Nationaal_Militair_Museum,_Soesterberg_pic2.JPG

Some of the preserved vehicles found on the web are:

 

171  024            (KN 09-50)

42-1 B32           (KN 64-66)

A14  411           (KN 70-07)

 

However, there are also other photos, which show only the yellow (car-like) plates, e.g. KN 64-94, KN 65-50, KN 67-87, KN 67-91, KN 68-55, a.s.o.

Why don't these vehicles have these little white tactical numbers? Was this a practice of the NL army from some earlier period or was it an intervention of a censor?

Any help will be appreciated

Cheers

Michael

Edited April 9, 2022 by KRK4m

[alt-92]

AFAIK there is not a match between tac and numberplates, but I could be wrong.

On more recent vehicles like the PRTL they have black patches where tac numbers can be painted over when needed.

 

Numberplate sequence depends on when the vehicles were registered with the RDW (DMV equivalent).

KA, KL to KZ & LM, LO, LU, MC, DM regs are reserved for Armed Forces vehicles that are allowed/on public roads, as they're not exempt in the Dutch Wegenverkeerswet / Traffic laws. 

Nowadays, they also follow the sidecode sequences introduced in 2004.

 

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlands_kenteken

[KRK4m]

13 hours ago, alt-92 said:

AFAIK there is not a match between tac and numberplates, but I could be wrong.

On more recent vehicles like the PRTL they have black patches where tac numbers can be painted over when needed.

 

Numberplate sequence depends on when the vehicles were registered with the RDW (DMV equivalent).

KA, KL to KZ & LM, LO, LU, MC, DM regs are reserved for Armed Forces vehicles that are allowed/on public roads, as they're not exempt in the Dutch Wegenverkeerswet / Traffic laws. 

Nowadays, they also follow the sidecode sequences introduced in 2004.

 

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlands_kenteken

 

Thank you - I understand that all AMX-PRI (weighing mere 15 tons and fitted with rubber track shoes) were RDW registered.

And that there is no key matching the RDW plates with tactical numbers, that is, since KN 09-50 is 171 024, it cannot be expected that KN 09-51 is 171 025.

The question remains, however, about vehicles without tactical numbers - many such photos are known.

Could it be that the RDW plates were the only method of identifying a particular AMX-PRI?

Was it the practice of the NL army in the 1960s or was it an intervention of censorship?

Cheers

Michael

[KRK4m]

In the 1960s, the Netherlands was involved in some small scale military operations in New Guinea. During this period, the basic AFVs of the Dutch army were vehicles from the AMX family: a 105mm-gunned light tank, a PRA 105mm self-propelled howitzer and a PRI armoured personnel carrier. Were any of them involved in the fighting for Dutch New Guinea?

And if not, what vehicles was the Netherlands used in this conflict? M24 Chaffee and M3 half-track?

Cheers

Michael