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Improvised armour added to a truck by railway shop workers for the Danish resistance movement near the end of World War II. Improvised vehicle armour is a form of vehicle armour consisting of protective materials added to a vehicle such as a car, truck, or tank in an irregular and extemporized fashion using available materials. Typically ...
Vehicle armour is sometimes improvised in the midst of an armed conflict by vehicle crews or individual units. In World War II , British, Canadian and Polish tank crews welded spare strips of tank track to the hulls of their Sherman tanks. [ 19 ]
A technical armed with a ZU-23 autocannon operated by the Free Syrian Army during battles against Islamic State in the eastern Qalamoun Mountains, southern Syria, 2017. An improvised fighting vehicle is an ad hoc combat vehicle resulting from modified or upgraded civilian or military non-combat vehicle, often constructed and employed by civilian insurgents, terrorists, rebels, mobsters ...
Other British examples from the invasion-scare period were the Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle and the Bison concrete armoured lorries. Both were conventional trucks fitted with improvised armour, in the case of the Bison, a concrete fighting-compartment was carried, essentially making a mobile pillbox. The Armadillo used two walls of wood ...
Mk IV - glacis armour was redesigned to improve visibility. A similar vehicle, known as Beaverette (NZ), was produced in New Zealand Railways Department Hutt Workshops. The car used a Ford 3/4 or 1-ton truck chassis and plate salvaged from the merchant ships Port Bowen and Mokoia for armour. They had a crew of four; 208 units were built. [4]
U.S. troops had to rely on improvised vehicle armour and many soldiers resorted to jury-rigging scrap metal onto the doors of unprotected Humvees. [5] [8] At the same time military contractors in Iraq had protected vehicles like the Rhino Runner and the M1117, which had not been approved for procurement. [5]
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Pages in category "Improvised armoured fighting vehicles" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.