Armored cars are typically less expensive and on roads have better speed and range than tracked military vehicles.

Armored cars are popular for peacekeeping or internal security duties.

Armored cars, dump trucks and concrete mixers are examples of vehicles specialized for delivery of specific types of goods.

Armored cars from the 4th MP Company immediately returned the fire.

File: Brazilian Army equipment on display for Soldier's Day 2010-08-29 1. jpg | Armored cars EE-9 Cascavel and EE-11 Urutu.

Modified trucks equipped with water cannons, modified stock cars and modified APCs ( Armored Personnel Carriers ).

Armored cars of the 7th Hussars were brought in to reinforce the police, who were instructed to fire without hesitation.

It switched to Model A production in 1928, and built M8 Greyhound and M20 Armored Utility Car armored cars during World War II.

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Partly because of this policy, the new M551 could not be classified as a light tank, and was officially classified as an " Armored Reconnaissance / Airborne Assault Vehicle ".

Among Japan's largest and most famous studios, Sunrise is renowned for several critically lauded and popular original anime series, such as Gundam, Armored Trooper Votoms, Vision of Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin, My-HiME, My-Otome, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, as well as its numerous adaptations of acclaimed light novels including Dirty Pair, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon and Accel World, and manga such as City Hunter, InuYasha, Outlaw Star, Yakitate !!

* M8 Armored Gun System, a US Army light tank cancelled in 1996

Future Vice President Spiro T. Agnew attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant while with the 20th Armored Division's 480th Armored Infantry Regiment ( prior to reorganization to light armored division TO & E ).

One was between the US 1-69th Armor and PT-76 light amphibious tanks of the NVA 202nd Armored Regiment near Ben Het in 1969.

In the early 21st Century, the US Army has also adopted this doctrine by having light rapid deployment Stryker Brigades on wheels and heavier Mechanized and Armored units with tracked Bradleys and Abrams as main combat forces.

CCB of the 10th Armored Division, severely weakened by losses to its Team Desobry ( Maj. William R. Desobry ), Team Cherry ( Lt. Col. Henry T. Cherry ), and Team O ' Hara ( Lt. Col. James O ' Hara ) in delaying the Germans, formed a mobile " fire brigade " of 40 light and medium tanks ( including survivors of CCR 9th Armored Division and eight replacement tanks found unassigned in Bastogne ).

Armored versions were introduced as well as fire support versions, dubbed Amtanks, which were fitted with turrets from Stuart series light tanks ( LVT ( A )- 1 ) and Howitzer Motor Carriage M8s ( LVT ( A )- 4 ).

Though they were soon countered with mines and RPGs, M-113's continued service during the war, primarily evolving into infantry fighting vehicles, known as the ACAV ( Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle ); and functioning as a " light tank.

Most such US projects to create such vehicles have been abortive, e. g. the M8 Armored Gun System, the most successful, being the flawed M551 Sheridan light tank.

The first signs of the beginning of the end of the French empire in Indochina came when Vietnamese insurgents attacked and killed French residents in Saigon, prompting the French to send in a combat command ( light brigade ) of Leclerc's old 2nd Armored Division, among other troops, to help restore order.

In 1969 the US Army began replacing the M41 with the advanced, but troublesome, aluminum hulled M551 Sheridan Armored Airborne Reconnaissance Assault Vehicle ( not officially listed as a light tank due to Army policy at the time ).

However, the small 37 mm gun would not be effective against the front armor of German tanks so as an armored car, designated M8 Light Armored Car, it was used for reconnaissance instead.

* Curtis G. Culin ( 1915 – 1963 ), Sgt in the 2d Armored Division during WWII who developed the hedgerow destroying device for the Sherman tanks during the battle of Normandy.

After a fierce firefight, the Sherman tanks of the IDF 37th Armored Brigade broke through the heavily fortified lines outside of Khan Yunis held by the 86th Palestinian Brigade.

The 5th Armored Division rolled into camp in February and March, and the steady roar of its tanks and artillery soon became part of the daily scene.

After the 1990 – 91 Gulf War, the U. S. 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment ( 2nd ACR ) was re-equipped with Humvees and designated Armored Cavalry ( Light ), while units retaining their Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting Vehicles were classified as Armored Cavalry ( Heavy ).

Further troop movements including the arrival of U. S. 45th Infantry Division and U. S. 1st Armored Division, brought Allied forces total on the beachhead to 69, 000 men, 508 guns and 208 tanks by January 29, whilst the total defending Germans had risen to 71, 500.

The first day's fighting was intense: 1st Armored Division lost 100 tanks and 3rd Infantry Division suffered 955 casualties, the highest single day figure for any U. S. division during World War II.

One Canadian soldier from the 4th Canadian Armored Division wounded recalled this incident saying ".... while so deployed the tanks were suddenly attacked, in mistake, by several Typhoon aircraft.

At the Armored Command and Artillery Command headquarters on the northern edge of the city the communists planned to utilize captured tanks and artillery pieces but the tanks had been moved to another base two months earlier and that the breech blocks of the artillery pieces had been removed, rendering them useless.

During World War II, Paderborn was comprehensively bombed by allied aircraft in 1944 and 1945 ( 85 % destruction ) and seized by the US 3rd Armored Division during a pitched battle 31 March-1 April 1945, in which tanks and flamethrowers were used during combined mechanized-infantry assaults against the city's southwestern, southern and southeastern approaches.

In regard to mechanization, the First Romanian Armored Division was equipped with around 100 Czech-built Panzer 35 ( t ) tanks, armed with a gun ineffective against the armor of Soviet T-34 tanks.

The AGF objected to the 90 mm gun of the tanks, whereas the Armored Force wanted the 90 mm gun mounted in a Sherman tank chassis.

After training the tank crews, the T26E3 tanks were first committed to combat on 25 February, with the 3rd Armored Division, in the fighting for the Roer River.

Two battalions detached from the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, the 6th Medium and 64th Heavy Tank Battalions, were fully equipped with M46 Patton tanks.

U. S. artillery and tanks of the U. S. 1st Armored Division then entered the battle, destroying some enemy tanks and forcing the remainder into what appeared to be a headlong retreat.

Members of the 44th Armored Infantry, supported by tanks of the 6th Armored Division, move in to attack German troops Siege of Bastogne | surrounding Bastogne.

German losses in action against 8th Armored units were 5 Panzer IV tanks, 72 prisoners and many dead and wounded.

M2 infantry Bradleys also have firing ports for a number of M231 Firing Port Weapons ( FPWs ), providing a means for the occupants to fire from within the vehicle and replacing the top-side gunners on the M113-based Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicles ( ACAV ), though the M231 is rarely employed.

* Many NovaLogic games have used voxel-based rendering technology, including the Delta Force, Armored Fist and Comanche series.

Two projects, by Elbit Systems and Israel Aircraft Industries are both based on the locally produced Armored " Tomcar " and have the specific purpose of patrolling barrier fences against intrusions.

The game play of MechWarrior is slightly different from titles such as Armored Core in that you do not have the option to change out pieces of a mech.

Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, who had been with the Second Armored Division at Saint-Lô, was now the commander of the Third Armored and he may have been the best tank commander of the war.

Since then, several Regimental or Brigade Combat Teams have mobilized through Camp Shelby including the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( Tennessee Army National Guard ); the 155th Heavy Brigade Combat Team ( MS ARNG ); the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division ( PA ARNG ); the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division ( PA ARNG ) ; the 53rd Brigade Combat Team ( FL ARNG ); the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division ( MN ARNG ); the 41st Brigade Combat Team ( OR ARNG ); the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ( LA ARNG ); and the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team ( ID ARNG ), and the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ( GA ARNG ).

The 3rd Armored Division had a number of T-72 tanks, the only non-Republican Guard force to have them, while the other armored battalions had T-62s and T-55s, a few of which had an Iraqi appliqué armor similar to the Soviet bulging armor also known as " brow " laminate armor or BDD.

Metal Blade artists that have appeared on the Billboard Top 200 chart include The Goo Goo Dolls, Amon Amarth, Trouble, As I Lay Dying, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Fates Warning ( the first Metal Blade band to have achieved this ), Lizzy Borden, Anvil, Gwar, King Diamond, Job for a Cowboy, Whitechapel, Armored Saint, The Red Chord, Unearth, Between the Buried and Me, D. R. I.

The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States.

In rural areas, an armored vehicle does not have to worry about hidden units though muddy and damp terrain have always been a factor of weakness for Armored tanks and vehicles.

Since 1995, 22nd Signaleers have been continuously deployed in support of both the 1st Infantry Division and 1st Armored Division in Bosnia, US EUCOM's national support element in Hungary and NATO's Task Force Able Sentry in Macedonia.

Other manufacturers, such as Hasegawa, Wave, and Kotobukiya, have in recent years offered products from other series, such as Macross, Votoms, Five Star Stories, Armored Core, Virtual-On, Zoids, and Maschinen Krieger, with results rivaling Bandai's best products.

The attacks have mainly been on the U. S. Army Stryker vehicle and the MRAP ( armored vehicle ) but not limited to attacks against ASV ( Armor Security Vehicles ) and M1151 UP Armored HMMWV.