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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.
The Cadillac Gage Commando, frequently denoted as the M706 in U.S. military service, [7] is an American armored car designed to be amphibious. [6] It was engineered by Cadillac Gage specifically for the United States Military Police Corps during the Vietnam War as an armed convoy escort vehicle. [7]
The first Rangers were delivered to the USAF in April 1980, with 571 vehicles under a contract of $30,532 each. [1] [4] In 1981, 560 additional Rangers were ordered by the USAF and the United States Navy. [4] By 1994, around 708 Rangers had been produced and served with the U.S. military, with 20 of those Rangers sold to Indonesia the same year ...
The King armored car was manufactured by the Armored Motor Car Company (AMC). It was the first American armored vehicle, and was ordered by the United States Marine Corps in 1915 for testing before being used by the 1st Armored Car Squadron, which consisted of eight cars. The 1st Armored Car Squadron was the US's first formal armored unit.
This is a list of armoured fighting vehicles developed during the interwar years between the end of the First World War (1918) and the start of the Second World War (1939). There is some overlap with tanks that served in the early part of the Second World War.
M104 Wolverine (armored bridge layer) M9 armored combat earthmover; M60A1 armored vehicle-launched bridge (AVLB) M88 recovery vehicle; M728 combat engineer vehicle (CEV) M981 FISTV; M93 Fox NBCRS (nuclear–biological–chemical reconnaissance system)
M1 armored car (G29) Model T4 Cunningham (1934) M2 unknown; M3 unknown; M4 unknown; M5 armored car (G134) (T17 Deerhound) M6 armored car (G122) (T17E1 Staghound) M7 armored car (G133) (T18 Boarhound) M8 armored car (G136) (Greyhound) T22 (M9 halftrack car)? M10 redesignated M20 Armored Utility Car T26 (G176) M38 Wolfhound, 37 mm, 6 × 6
The first armoured car was the Simms' Motor War Car, designed by F.R. Simms in response to the Second Boer War and built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim in Britain [1] 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. [2]