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A military armored car is a type of armored fighting vehicle having wheels (from four to ten large, off-road wheels) instead of tracks, and usually light armor. Armored cars are typically less expensive and on roads have better speed and range than tracked military vehicles.
Armored car (military), a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle; Armored car (valuables), an armored van or truck used to transport valuables; Armored car (VIP), a civilian vehicle with a reinforced structure; SWAT vehicle, a non-military armored vehicle used by police tactical units
A VIP armored car is a civilian vehicle with a reinforced structure that is designed to protect its occupants from assaults, bullets and blasts. Armored cars are typically manufactured with bulletproof glass and layers of armor plating , often with a variety of other defensive mechanisms and features to aid the individuals inside.
F. R. Simms's 1902 Motor War Car, the first armoured car to be built. Another early armoured car of the period was the French Charron, Girardot et Voigt 1902, presented at the Salon de l'Automobile et du cycle in Brussels, on 8 March 1902. [7] The vehicle was equipped with a Hotchkiss machine gun, and with 7 mm armour for the gunner.
The M8 light armored car is a 6×6 armored car produced by the Ford Motor Company during World War II. It was used from 1943 by United States and British forces in Europe and the Pacific until the end of the war.
Fox armoured car (Canada) – adaptation of Humber armoured car produced using local chassis; Marmon-Herrington armoured car (South Africa) – components imported from United States and United Kingdom; Marks I to IV saw service; Rhino heavy armoured car (Australia) – never reached service; Rover light armoured car (Australia) – only used ...
Daimler DZVR 21 / Sd.Kfz. 3 – interwar 4 wheel armoured car; Ehrhardt E-V/4 – World War I vehicle; Kfz 13 – interwar 4 wheel light armoured car; Leichter Panzerspähwagen – a series of light 4x4 armoured cars from Nazi Germany; Schwerer Panzerspähwagen – a family of 6x6 and 8x8 heavy armoured cars deployed by Nazi Germany
A V-100 (XM706) Armored Car advertisement showing a turret featuring a minigun The vehicle is equipped with four-wheel drive and uses axles similar to the ones used in the M35 series of trucks. The engine is a gasoline-powered 360-cubic-inch Chrysler V8 , same as in the early gas models of the M113 armored personnel carriers .