The basic APC design was substantially expanded to an Infantry fighting vehicle ( IFV ) when properties of an armoured personnel carrier and a light tank were combined in one vehicle.

The level of armour protection between AFVs varies greatly-a main battle tank will normally be designed to take hits from other tank guns and anti-tank missiles, whilst light reconnaissance vehicles are often only armoured " just in case ".

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

Vickers Armstrong also developed a SPAGG based on the chassis of the Mk. E 6-ton light tank / Dragon Medium Mark IV tractor, mounting a Vickers QF-1 " Pom-Pom " gun of 40 mm.

Later the British also developed a version of the Mk. VI light tank armed with 4 machine guns that was known as Light Tank AA Mk. I.

The British developed their own SPAAGs throughout the war mounting multiple machine guns and light cannon on various tank and armoured car chassis and by 1943, the Crusader AA tanks, which mounted the Bofors 40 mm gun or two-three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

On occasion SPAAGs have been used as very effective direct fire weapons against infantry, for example by American forces during late World War II, in Korea against mass infantry assault, and extensively during the Vietnam War, where for example the U. S. M42 Duster SPAAG ( based on a light tank ) was employed purely for this purpose.

The army had three infantry battalions and an engineer battalion in 1979, as well as a light tank squadron, a reconnaissance company, and an artillery battery.

Moreover, the Polish cavalry brigade order of battle of 1939 included, apart from the mounted soldiers themselves, light and heavy machine guns ( wheeled ), Anti-tank rifle, model 35, anti-aircraft weapon, artillery like Bofors 37 mm anti tank gun or light and scout tanks, etc.

The United States ' XM360, which is planned to equip the Future Combat Systems Mounted Combat System light tank and may be the M1 Abrams ' next gun upgrade, is reportedly based on the XM291 and may include ETC technology, or portions of ETC technology.

It is therefore necessary to wrap the tank with black film obscuring all light.

Targets included the AFA ( Stöcken ), the Deurag-Nerag refinery ( Misburg ), the Continental plants ( Vahrenwald and Limmer ), the United light metal works ( VLW ) in Ricklingen and Laatzen ( today Hanover fairground ), the Hanover / Limmer rubber reclamation plant, the Hanomag factory ( Linden ) and the tank factory M. N. H.

The 82 mm BM-8 was approved in August 1941, and deployed as the BM-8-36 on truck beds and BM-8-24 on T-40 and T-60 light tank chassis.

It is organised into two tank battalions ( T-55, T-54 and T-34 / 85, tanks, including possibly a light armoured battalion of PT-76's and Type 62 light tanks ), four infantry battalions, one Special Forces battalion, one airborne battalion ( possibly the 33rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, Djikoroni, in Bamako ), two artillery battalions, one engineer battalion ( 34th ), 2 AD artillery batteries, and one SAM battery.

The " light " regiments were intended to make dismounted attacks on the division's flanks while the BMP-equipped " heavy " regiment remained mounted and supported the division's tank regiment on the main axis of advance.

The Maginot Line (, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I, and in the run-up to World War II.

1940 was at the very end of the era of the light tank, and the German behemoths of the later war years were still in the future: many tanks were surprisingly vulnerable.

Soviet paratroopers on a light tank head towards Prague Castle, seat of the Czechoslovak government, and downtown Prague in the early morning hours of 21 August 1968

They created many examples of lightly armored self-propelled anti-tank guns using captured French equipment ( example Marder I ), their own obsolete light tank chassis ( Marder II ), or ex-Czech chassis ( Marder III ).

This idea was challenged by the poor performance of the relatively light early tank guns against armour, and German doctrine of avoiding tank-versus-tank combat.

The M551 Sheridan was a light tank developed by the United States and named after Civil War General Philip Sheridan.

At the time of the M551's acceptance into service production in 1966, the United States Army no longer used the heavy, medium, and light tank classifications.

He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

The clouds parted and hard gashes of sunlight swooped down to stain the earth with streaks of white and gold light so that the shadows of the running horses flowed like dark streams over the dazzling snow.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

The planes, light with most of the gas burned out, responded beautifully.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

He didn't smoke and could not light fires with a flintless lighter ; ;

Lithe and muscular, he had well-molded features, and his light color told of the European ancestors who had been intimate with the slave women of his family.

The voice is light in timbre, with a rough edge that corresponds to his visage.

Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.

Now, Adam, in the gray light of afternoon, stared across at the hut opposite his tent, and thought of Simms Purdew lying in there in the gloom, snoring on his bunk, with the fumes of whisky choking the air.

What hope lay in the nephews, she asked the intensifying light out there, with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced, having sired two girl children, with none to bear on the Packard name??

This tied in closely with the current attempt to upgrade state-owned cars to the extent that vehicles are not retained beyond the point where maintenance costs ( in light of depreciation ) become excessive.

Tests have shown that such a device, with a fresh battery, will furnish light continuously for at least 10 days.

You should also begin this exercise with a very light barbell until you become accustomed to it balance-wise.

It is a flavor that might take a little getting used to -- not because it is unpleasant, but because the flavor is hard to define in the light of our experience with other fruits.

it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.

The Deerstalker points with the ease, speed and precision of a fine imported double shotgun, and its trigger pull is light and sharp.

Photograph shows the wrong side of work with light strand being picked up under dark strand in position to be purled.

Too light a feed, particularly with metal or other hard material, causes overheating of the tool and burning of the cutting edge.

Long observation has taught Mason that most landscape can be reduced to three essential planes: a foreground in sharp focus -- either a light area with dark accents or a dark one with lights ; ;

A completely new insight into living cells and their structure will be possible by use of a new technique which replaces visible light with ultraviolet radiation and combines a microscope with a color-TV system to view the results.

The video signal is amplified and then switched, in synchronism with the three ultraviolet light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength, corresponding to red, green, or blue, is seen.