The military's armoured car is a wheeled armoured vehicle, lighter than other armoured fighting vehicles, primarily being armoured and / or armed for self-defence of the occupants.

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.

* 1981 – Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, NY, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.

Upon their arrival at Columbine, the duo met near Harris's car and armed two 20 pound ( 9 kg ) propane bombs before entering the cafeteria a few minutes prior to the beginning of the A lunch shift, placing the duffel bags containing the bombs inside.

The prison is located just yards from the scene of the Massacre of Braybrook Street in 1966, in which three policemen were shot dead by three armed men after stopping their suspicious car.

King County police, finally armed with a detailed description of their suspect as well his car, posted fliers throughout the Seattle area.

The consortium is capable of producing: locomotives, tramways, wagons, bridges, industrial plants, nuclear reactors, car parts, heavily armed vehicles, armoured fighting vehicles, including main battle tanks and mine warfare vehicles, agricultural machinery, etc.

* The Juárez Cartel's armed wing, La Línea, used a car bomb to attack police officers in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico on 15 July 2010.

A four-wheel-drive scout car, known to the Arny as the Dingo, had a 2. 5-litre engine, along with a larger armoured car powered by a 4. 1-litre engine and armed with a 2pdr.

Founding member Thomas Seltzer once said, " A turbonegro is a large, well-equipped, armed black male in a fast car, out for vengeance.

Initially, the taxi driver said he was under the dashboard of his cab when the shooting started and could not see who shot first, although he contradicted his statement a few days later in an interview with the San Juan Star, a local newspaper, stating that he ducked under the dashboard of the car after the three men ( the two activists and the undercover agent ) left the car, and that he saw " 10 heavily armed men " approaching.

When he emerged from the car, he saw the three men alive and two of them were being beaten by the armed men, who were later identified as policemen.

He saw " 10 heavily armed men " approaching, later identified as police agents, when the three passengers exited the car, and the taxi driver was ordered at gunpoint to exit the vehicle.

Later that year, the band suffered a major setback when Rob Collins was charged with armed robbery after his friend had robbed an off licence while he was waiting in the car outside.

Samson saw the possibilities when he armed one vehicle with a Maxim gun and ambushed a German car near Cassel on 4 September.

Anti-Zionist sentiments reached a boiling point on 15 April 1936, when an armed group of Arabs killed a Jewish civilian after intercepting his car near the village of Bal ' a.

The Shah stored this car under armed guard with another SV in Royal Palace in Tehran.

During the later day car theft crime, typically, the carjacker is armed, and the driver is forced out of the car with the threat of bodily injury.

Before the car reached the prison, it was pulled over by armed men and Madero and Pino Suárez were shot and killed.

Price again testified that a dozen armed black men entered the gondola car.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;

Petitioner, who claims to be a conscientious objector, was convicted of violating 12a of the Universal Military Training and Service Act by refusing to be inducted into the armed forces.

He said the assailant, who was armed with a automatic, entered the taxi at Pennsylvania Avenue and Gold Street.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

The transfer of the property of the 4th Army ( except for part of the property of the 366th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 23rd Motor Rifle Division captured by Armenian armed formations in 1992 during the regiment's withdrawal from Stepanakert ) and the 49th arsenal was completed in 1992.

* Vladimir Petrov, How South Caucasus was armed, Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies ( Moscow, Russia )

When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

Their main force was infantry, armed with javelins in the front ranks and pikes behind, which formed into a phalanx ; and was supported by camelmen and horsemen on the flanks.

Byron Rickards, flying a Ford Tri-Motor, was approached on the ground by armed revolutionaries.

He landed on a road as directed, and was held captive for several hours under armed guard.

In the Battle of Jericho, the Ark was carried round the city once a day for seven days, preceded by the armed men and seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams ' horns ( Josh.

Among these was the M4 ( 105 ), a M4 Sherman tank armed with a M4 105 mm howitzer.

The AVRE version of the Churchill Tank was armed with a Spigot mortar that fired a HE-filled projectile ( nicknamed the Flying Dustbin ).

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 Amir had scarcely suppressed it by winning a desperate battle when Abdur Rahman's reappearance in the north was a signal for a mutiny of the troops stationed in those parts and a gathering of armed bands to his standard.

A subvariant of the Sparrow I armed with the same nuclear warhead as the MB-1 Genie was proposed in 1958, but was cancelled shortly thereafter.

The Mosin – Nagant (, ISO 9: ) is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations.

Simpler anaesthetic apparatus may be used in special circumstances, such as the TriService Apparatus, a simplified anaesthesia delivery system invented for the British armed forces, which is light and portable and may be used effectively even when no medical gases are available.

The naval guns which originated in the 1880s were mostly 3 pounders and 6 pounders and originally were widely used ( by Britain and Russia amongst others ) for close-up defence of major warships against small craft armed with the newly invented locomotive torpedo.

The LeMat revolver was a. 42 or. 36 caliber cap & ball black powder revolver invented by Dr. Jean Alexandre LeMat of New Orleans, which featured a rather unusual secondary 16 gauge smoothbore barrel capable of firing buckshot, and saw service with the armed forces of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War of 1861 – 65.

… Thus today ’ s armed forces, especially the army ( the air force and the navy more closely resemble their western counterparts ), represent the melding of ancient practices, recently invented “ traditions ”, and modern professional norms.