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The vehicle had a combat weight of 6.75 tonnes and was designed to be air-portable. [2] The Fox had aluminium armour and was fitted with a flotation screen. It lacked protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Powered by a Jaguar 4.2-litre 6-cylinder petrol engine, the Fox was one of the fastest vehicles of its type.
Fox is a brevity code used by NATO pilots to signal the simulated or actual release of an air-to-air munition or other combat function. Army aviation elements may use a different nomenclature, as the nature of helicopter -fired weapons is almost always air-to-surface .
The following is a (partial) listing of vehicle model numbers or M-numbers assigned by the United States Army. Some of these designations are also used by other agencies, services, and nationalities, although these various end users usually assign their own nomenclature.
This is an incomplete list of U.S. Department of Defense code names primarily the two-word series variety. Officially, Arkin (2005) says that there are three types of code name : Nicknames – a combination of two separate unassociated and unclassified words (e.g. Polo and Step) assigned to represent a specific program, special access program ...
Stryker. Stryker 4,466 . M1126 infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) M1126 Stryker (IAV) has two variants, he infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) and the mobile gun system (MGS).; The (ICV) variant has eight additional configurations: mortar carrier (MC), reconnaissance vehicle (RV), commanders vehicle (CV), fire support vehicle (FSV), medical evacuation vehicle (MEV), engineer squad vehicle (ESV), anti ...
Vehicle registration plates of the United States Army in Germany; Tank classification; List of "M" series military vehicles; List of currently active United States military land vehicles; List of crew served weapons of the US Armed Forces; List of vehicles of the United States Marine Corps; List of weapons of the U.S. Marine Corps; G-numbers
Mine resistant ambush protected vehicle: 1,725 JLTV: United States: Light tactical vehicle: Heavy guns carrier (M1278 JLTV-GP) 3,700 Utility (M1279 JLTV-UTL) General purpose (M1280 JLTV-GP) Close combat weapons carrier (M1281 JLTV-CCWC) M-ATV: United States: Light tactical vehicle: 704 HMMWV: United States: Light utility vehicle: Troop ...
Built by General Motors, Canada, based on a construction of the British Humber armoured car Mk III, adapted to a Canadian Military Pattern truck (CMP) chassis. The turret was manually traversed and fitted with 0.30 in (7.6 mm) and 0.50 in (13 mm) Browning machine guns.