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Dragon's teeth: Triangular obstacles acting as roadblocks for armoured vehicles. Dutch Water Line: a series of water-based defensive measures designed to flood large areas in case of attack. Earthworks; Embrasure: an opening in a parapet or casemate, for a gun to fire through.
One of the first armored vehicles to be used in combat was the Spanish Schneider-Brillié, which saw action in Morocco. It was built from the chassis of a Schneider P2-4000 bus and could carry 12 passengers. [2] The genesis of the armoured personnel carrier was on the Western Front of World War I.
A new programme for the replacement of the Type 96 was put in place, and is known as the "next generation armoured vehicle". The main variant will be an armoured personnel carrier, but there will also by command-and-control vehicles, armoured ambulances, logistics support vehicles and engineer variants. [7] The offers made for this programme ...
The M75 has an almost identical layout to later U.S. armored personnel carriers: the driver sits in the front left of the hull, with the air-cooled six-cylinder horizontally opposed Continental AO-895-4 gasoline engine to his right. The driver is provided with an M19 infra-red night vision periscope in later models and four M17 periscopes.
The system is to include both FT-5 reconnaissance drones and a new type of Gladius 2 search and strike drones with a range of at least 100 km, developed in accordance with the requirements of the Rocket and Artillery Troops. The subject of the contract, worth PLN 2 billion, is the delivery of four battery modules of the Gladius unmanned search ...
The M577 command post carrier, also known as the M577 command post vehicle or armored command post vehicle, is a variant of the M113 armored personnel carrier that was developed and produced by the FMC Corporation to function on the battlefield as a mobile command post i.e. a tactical operations centre, usually at the battalion level.
The basic M113 armored personnel carrier can be fitted with a number of weapon systems. The most common weapon fit is a single .50 caliber M2 machine gun. However, the mount can also be fitted with a 40 mm Mk 19 automatic grenade launcher.
Heron, like the smaller Waran 4×4 transporter, is the result of cooperation between Huta Stalowa Wola and the Czech company Tatra Export s.r.o. The basis for the transporter from HSW is the Czech design of the TADEAS 6×6 vehicle (Tatra Defence Armoured Solution), built on the chassis of the Tatra 815-7 truck.