AMX-30 Family by M.P. Robinson (aka Char de Battaille Volume III) has this data on AUF-1 (I'll do the Roland and DCA stuff another night).
AUF-1 Due to foreign orders from Saudi Arabia diverting production, the AUF-1 didn't enter service in the French army until early 1982 in the 61e Regiment d'Artillerie. When the new AUF-1T came around in 1990; the AUF-1 was redesignated the AUF-1H; and it remained in service until 2006.
AUF-1T This entered service in 1990; the T standing for either turbine or a shortened version of the acronym CTI (Conduite de Tir Inertiel). The big changes were a microturbine to provide the extra power needed by the new systems and the CTI system which acted as an all-inertial version of GPS that allowed a unit to rapidly deploy and disperse; yet retain tight synchronized fire control (e.g. precise TOT barriages).
AUF-1TM Entered service around 1995 in just the 40e Regiment d'Artillerie; the designation was for Tourelle Modex (experimental module turret). Basically it incorporated the new ATLAS fire control system. You can only tell a AUF-1T from a AUF-1TM via counting antennas at a distance.
French DoD Webpage on ATLAS (in French)
AUF-1TA 104 units were produced using remanufactured AMX-30B2 hulls with remanufactured AUF-1 turrets; with the first being delivered in 2004; with final deliveries in 2008.
AUF-2 The remanufacture of 70 existing AUF-1 turrets as AUF-2 turrets with 155mm L52 guns and the full ATLAS system was approved in 2003; but later cancelled around 2004-05 and the Nexter CAESAR was procured instead. Part of this may have been that the AUF-2 turret alone weighed 19 tons (compared to 28 tons for a full up basic M109's 28 tons). It would have offered a 42 km range, 10 RPM, and Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact.
Re: French OOB
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