Many forces ' IFVs carry anti-tank missiles in every infantry platoon, and attack helicopters have also added anti-tank capability to the modern battlefield.

Most IFVs also have smoke grenade dischargers for concealment.

Mechanized infantry are infantry equipped with armored personnel carriers ( APCs ) or infantry fighting vehicles ( IFVs ) for transport and combat ( see also mechanized force ).

Many IFVs were also equipped with firing ports from which their infantry could fire their weapons from inside, although these were generally not successful and have been dropped from modern IFVs.

Infantry units equipped with IFVs rather than lighter vehicles are commonly designated as " heavy ", indicating more combat power but also more costly long-range transportation requirements.

The term heavy infantry fighting vehicle is often applied to IFVs that are heavily armoured.

As IFVs often operate alongside tanks, being tracked means that the vehicle can go everywhere that the tanks go, which a wheeled vehicle could not.

Specially-equipped IFVs have taken on some of the roles of light tanks ; they are used by reconnaissance organizations, and light IFVs are used by airborne units which must be able to fight without the heavy firepower of tanks.

Since then, all major military powers have developed or adopted IFVs.

IFVs have an egress for dismounts.

Generally, IFVs have thinner and less complex armour than tanks to ensure mobility.

The sides, roof, and floor of IFVs have thinner armour.

Tracked IFVs need to have their treads serviced or replaced on a regular basis.

In this case wheeled vehicles would either have to take another route ( leaving the tanks without IFV support and the IFVs without tank protection ) or the tanks would have to stay where the wheeled IFVs can go and drastically limit their own tactical mobility.

However, facing a similar threat in Post-invasion Iraq to that which prompted the Russians to convert tanks to APCs, the occupying armies have found it necessary to apply extra armor to existing APCs and IFVs, which adds to the overall size and weight.

Most tanks and infantry fighting vehicles ( IFVs ) of the 21st century have specially designed nuclear, biological and chemical protective systems that make them internally air-tight and sealed ; they are well protected from vapors, gases, and liquids.

In IFVs, the thickness of armour varies widely between models.

BMD-1 IFVs were not suited for fighting in mountain regions of hot Afghanistan as they were originally developed to provide airborne units with an IFV to give them a chance in engagements with enemy armour and allow them to operate in Nuclear-Biological-Chemical ( NBC ) warfare conditions.

IFVs are usually tracked, but some wheeled vehicles fall into this category, too.

IFVs are usually tracked, but some wheeled vehicles fall into this category, too.

The 7th Ranger Battalion is presently configured as a mechanised infantry battalion and is equipped with tracked ACV 300 IFVs, some of which are armed with Bushmaster 25 mm guns.

Many IFVs utilize firing ports allowing infantry to fire without leaving the protection of the vehicle.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

These help IFVs to avoid a hits from ATGMs by allowing the IFV to hide behind a smoke screen.

IFVs are similar to armoured personnel carriers ( APCs ), designed to transport a section or squad of infantry ( generally between five and ten men ) and their equipment.

Some nations distinguish between mechanized and armored infantry, designating troops carried by APCs as mechanized and those in IFVs as armored.

Compared with " light " truck-mobile infantry, mechanized infantry can maintain rapid tactical movement and ( if mounted in IFVs ) possess more integral firepower.

Most IFVs carry only six or seven infantry but require a crew of three.

Mechanized infantry using IFVs are called panssarijääkäri or Armoured Jäger.

Full use of the supporting forces made success easier with even the infantry disembarking from their IFVs to use M47 Dragon anti-tank launchers.

It will be designed around combined arms battalions that contain both M1 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles ( IFVs ).

Its heaviest weapons included Leopard 2A4NO MBTs, CV9030 IFVs and modernized M109A3GN howitzers.

Many wheeled IFVs can extract themselves from a battlefield with specialised run-flat tires when not operating in difficult terrain, while an IFV with damaged tracks would require its tracks repaired in the field or an armoured recovery vehicle to tow it out.

As of 17 November 2008, 22 soldiers had been killed while travelling in Warrior IFVs in Afghanistan or Iraq.

On many IFVs, a coaxial machine gun is mounted on the turret along with the main armament.

While the Marder IFVs are replaced by the Puma, the MILAN will similarly be replaced by the Spike-ATGM for mounted and dismounted use.

99th Internal Troops division from Rostov, Persianovka which is a part of the North Caucasus Military District ( 4 BMD-1 and 33 BMD-1 IFVs in the Cherkmen regiment ).

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