The XM109, originally known as the Objective Sniper Weapon ( OSW ) or " Payload Rifle " ( according to Barrett ), is a semi-automatic anti-materiel rifle, designed primarily for engagement of light armored vehicles and similar materiel targets.

During the bitter three day engagement they had destroyed twenty seven enemy tanks, five armored vehicles and two trucks.

The term glacis plate describes the sloped front-most section of the hull of a tank or other armored fighting vehicle.

As a result, the glacis plate is generally the thickest, most robust armored section of a tank, followed by the turret face and mantlet.

Early versions of the Jagdpanzer IV carried two standard ( no modification made ) MG 42's on both sides of the gun mantlet / glacis, firing through a ball slot which was protected by an armored cover ( with the MG 42 retracted ) when not in use.

Some Sherman tanks were up-armoured in the field with glacis plates and other armour cut from knocked-out tanks to create Improvised Jumbos, named after the heavily armored M4A3E2 assault tank.

Recorded combat performance was lower, but still over 80 percent at 1, 000 m, in the 60s at 1, 500 m and the 40s at 2, 000 m. Penetration of armored plate inclined at 30 degrees was at respectively for the Panzergranate 39 / 43 projectile ( PzGr — armor-piercing shell ), and for the PzGr.

A hole in the roof, designed for the Nahverteidigungswaffe, was plugged by a circular armored plate due to shortages of this weapon.

It was better armored than the lightly armoured earlier Panzerjäger Marder and Nashorn with a sloped armour front plate of sloped back at 60 degrees from the vertical ( equivalent in protection to about ), carried a reasonably powerful gun, was mechanically reliable, small and easily concealed.

Gemma was decapitated by Jubei prior to the film's events, but has the ability to reincarnate himself, which is to control his body down to the tiniest bone and blood, allowing him to reconnect any and all severed body parts, even his head or if he is split from top to bottom ; Gemma can also shapeshift, as he disguised himself as the chamberlain by morphing his flesh, and wears an armored plate on his left arm.

For example, using swords against plate armored foes would be less effective than using flails or maces.

An armoured fighting vehicle ( or armored fighting vehicle ; AFV ) is a combat vehicle, protected by strong armour and armed with weapons.

Tank destroyer are armed with a gun or missile launcher, and is designed specifically to engage enemy armored vehicles.

An assault gun is a gun or howitzer mounted on a motor vehicle or armored chassis, designed for use in the direct fire role in support of infantry when attacking other infantry or fortified positions.

A tank destroyer is a type of armored fighting vehicle armed with a gun or missile launcher, and is designed specifically to engage enemy armored vehicles.

A military armored ( or armoured ) car is a wheeled light armored vehicle, lighter than other armored fighting vehicles, primarily being armored and / or armed for self-defense of the occupants.

It is said that these armored cars became ‘ the eyes and ears of Wavell ’.

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.

However when there is true combat they are easily outgunned and lightly armored.

The threatening appearance of a tank is often enough to keep an opponent from attacking, whereas a less threatening vehicle such as an armored car is more likely to be attacked.

The Army is equipped with light wheeled armored cars, some mounting cannon.

In both civilian use and among the military's lighter armored soldiers, it is common to use a carbine.

What is commonly referred to as cavalry today utilizes helicopters ( air cavalry ) or armored fighting vehicles ( armored cavalry ) as a means to quickly get soldiers into battle.

The shock role, traditionally filled by heavy cavalry, is generally filled by units with the " armored " designation.

This is closely related to the increase in the size of armies throughout the early modern period ; heavily armored cavalrymen were expensive to raise and maintain and it took years to replace a skilled horseman or a trained horse, while arquebusiers and later musketeers could be trained and kept in the field at much lower cost, and were much easier to replace.

Each section is equipped with two armored M1114 HMMWV armed with a. 50 M2 Browning machine gun.

The Mammoth Mk2 is a heavily armored super-unit with railguns of which the player is only allowed to have 1.

During the socialist administration of Siad Barre, Somalia was at first closely aligned with the Soviet Union, a relationship which enabled it to amass among the largest armored and mechanized forces on the continent.

In May 1945, by the end of the war in Europe, the Free French forces comprised 1, 300, 000 personnel, and included seven infantry divisions and three armored divisions fighting in Germany making it the fourth largest allied army in Europe behind the Soviet Union, the U. S. and Britain.

The size of armored cruisers varied ; the largest were as large and expensive as battleships.

The force consisted of three infantry brigades, the Negev Brigade, the Givati Brigade, and the Yiftach Brigade, an armored battalion from the 8th Armored Brigade and the largest artillery formation that had been available to the IDF at the time.

River monitors were heavily armored, and normally mounted the largest guns of all riverine warships.

Hypostomus is the largest genus of the armored catfish native to Central and South America.

This September 1997 Dunbar Armored robbery-at $ 18. 9 million ( roughly 47 % recovered ) still considered the " largest cash robbery " in U. S. history-is similar in size to the March 1997 Loomis Fargo armored car robbery by Philip N. Johnson ($ 18. 8 million, 95 % recovered ) and the unrelated October 1997 Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery ($ 17. 3 million, 95 % recovered ).

Appointed commander of the Segalfregatte ( sail frigate ) Niobe in 1883, Koester next took command of the Panzerkorvette ( armored corvette-later battleship ) Württemberg in 1884. König Wilhelm in 1890 In 1887 he was named commander of the Panzerfregatte ( armored frigate-later armored cruiser ) König Wilhelm, long the largest ship in the fleet.

The last and largest of the Parasaurolophus species, P. tubicen, lived in New Mexico alongside the large sauropod Alamosaurus, duckbill Kritosaurus, horned Pentaceratops, armored Nodocephalosaurus, Saurornitholestes, and the tyrannosaurid Bistahieversor.

Polish forces included one of the largest Polish armored units of that time, the Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade, and Szyling, together with general Piskor, decided that the Warsaw Brigade would make a demonstration attack on Tomaszów, drawing the attention of the Germans.

The M113 armored personnel carrier | M113, one of the most common tracked APCs, on duty during the Iraq War.

These relatively lightly armored horsemen formed the most effective element of the Muslim armies during the later stages of the Islamic conquest of the Levant.

This was most clearly seen in the feudal system, where a lord was expected to enter combat armored and on horseback and bring with him an entourage of peasants on foot.

Knights and mercenaries deployed in triangular formations, with the most heavily armored knights at the front.

The Red Army began the war while still in the process of reorganizing its armored and mechanized formations, most of which were destroyed during the first months of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Though many nations ' armored formations included an organic mechanized infantry component at the start of World War II, the proportion of mechanized infantry in such combined arms formations was increased by most armies as the war progressed.

Since most of the readily-available RPG-7 rounds cannot penetrate M1 Abrams tank armor from the front, it is primarily effective against soft-skinned or lightly armored vehicles, and infantry.

The M109 family is the most common Western indirect-fire support weapon of maneuver brigades of armored and mechanized infantry divisions.

The U. S.. 50 caliber M2 Browning heavy machine gun proved most effective in this role, often flushing out and killing German panzerfaust teams waiting in ambush as well as breaking up German infantry assaults against the armored infantry.

Patton was capable of the occasional blunt witticism: " The two most dangerous weapons the Germans have are our own armored halftrack and jeep.

tactics are daring and unpredictable ... He is the most modern general and the best commander of armored and infantry forces.

For use against armored targets, or large, tough game animals, penetration is the most important consideration.

The new ships were larger and better armored than other British treaty cruisers, with a belt in the Towns and were capable of 32. 5 knots, but for the most part tried to stay within past treaty limitations.

The T-26 was the most numerous tank in the Red Army's armored force during the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

In the 1991 Gulf War, most of the Americans killed by their own forces were crew members of armored vehicles hit by anti-tank rounds.

This view was challenged when army airman General Billy Mitchell demonstrated the capability of aircraft to substantially damage and sink even the most heavily armored naval vessel.

Although individual tanks from other armies ( such as the Necrons ) may sport more firepower and / or armor than those of the Imperial Guard, the Guard has, overall, the most powerful armored force ( or, at least, the most varied ).

The principal aircraft of the VVS during World War II were the Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik armored ground attack monoplane and the series of the A. S. Yakovlev-designed single-engined fighters, beginning with the Yakovlev Yak-1 fighter and its trio of successors in their many variants ; for which the Il-2 became ( at 36, 183 aircraft ) the single most produced military aircraft design of all time, with the four main versions ( the Yak-1 ,-3 ,-7 and-9 ) of the Yak fighters being slightly more numerous, at a total of 36, 716 aircraft, the two main types together accounting for about half the strength of the VVS for most of the Great Patriotic War.

In the West, the fashion for heavily armored Roman cavalry seems to have been a response to the Eastern campaigns of the Parthians and Sassanids in the region referred to as Asia Minor, as well as numerous defeats at the hands of cataphracts across the steppes of Eurasia, the most notable of which is the Battle of Carrhae.

In the United States Marine Corps, corporal is the Table of Organization rank for a rifle fire team leader, machine gun team leader, light mortar squad leader, and assault weapon team leader, as well as gunner on most larger crew served weapons ( i. e., medium mortars, heavy machine guns, anti-tank missiles, and howitzers ) and armored vehicles ( e. g., tanks, light armored vehicles, and armored assault vehicles ).