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7 unusual facts about armoured fighting vehicle


Appliqué

Appliqué armour, in military use, consists of extra protective plates mounted onto the hull or turret of an Armoured fighting vehicle.

Chasseurs d'Afrique

It is divided into one instruction squadron and three combat squadrons and is equipped with approximately 45 armoured vehicles.

Howa Type 89

Although the typical issue model is equipped with a fixed stock, a small number of the steel tubing folding stock version were produced for AFV crews and paratroopers.

M50 Reising

There were only two differences between the M50 and the M55, those being the elimination of the compensator and the addition of a rather flimsy, folding wire buttstock making the M55 lighter and shorter and was originally issued to Marine parachute infantry and armored vehicle crews.

National Airlines Flight 102

On 2 June 2013, investigators confirmed the load shift hypothesis; three armoured vehicles and two mine sweepers came loose and rolled backwards onto the rear bulkhead, damaging the aircraft and pushing the center of gravity outside its rear limit.

Organic unit

At a lower level of organization, infantry units commonly incorporate organic armour or artillery units to improve their combined arms capability.

Tyneham

Safety warnings about explosives and unexploded shells are posted at Mupe Bay by the MoD: visitors are advised to keep to official footpaths and abide to local site notices because tanks and armoured vehicles are used in this area.


Troop

Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps: Three or four armoured fighting vehicles commanded by a subaltern, i.e. effectively the same level element as an infantry platoon.


see also

Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps

NZLAV - the NZLAV armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) is a variant of the General Dynamics LAV III.

Stridsvagn L-120

In October 1936 the Swedish Army placed an order with the armoured fighting vehicle manufacturer AB Landsverk in the Scanian city of Landskrona for one L-120 tank and one L-120 tank chassis for testing purposes.